St Ignatius High School - Ignatian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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 RIGHT: Group projects such as posters and collages are an integral part of almost every retreat. BELOW RIGHT: Participation at retreats is l est complemented by the reception of the ideas of others. BELOW: Table leaders at the underclassmen retreats had to In- good listeners as well as good speakers. To love You can expect m e croud m arouncn ii$ moment O-c or nmr

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Concerned Teachers Revitalize Counseling Renewed emphasis on the value of personal relationships characterized this year’s counseling program. For the first time Ignatians chose for themselves the faculty member to whom they felt most capable of expressing themselves. The faculty responded to this challenge of personal commitment, breaking new ground in the area of student-faculty relationships and strengthening the spirit of Christian unity within the school. This program veered away from the problem-solution approach to counseling and instead resulted in a mutual search on the part of both counselor and student for effective means of dealing with everyday tensions and conflicts.

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Personal Sharing Binds Ignatians in Christ Enter Rnd friend Faith, the alpha of Christianity, must encompass the entire person; one’s emotions as well as intellect must he involved in the God Who is love, 'rite retreat program provides the structure whereby the student might enter into this total spirit of his faith. The concepts of theology become important only if an encounter with the living Christ embodies them. Through a process of participation and interaction, Ignatians actually give the retreat to one another and discover that Christ binds us and reveals us within community. A particularly pressing concern dealt with the need for private discernment and support following the retreat experience. Here the counseling program proved its worth as student and counselor tried to integrate the Christ encounter with their day-to-day living. Upperclassmen participated in weekend retreats at Colombiere. TEC (Teens Encounter Christ), and SEARCH (Search for Christian Maturity). Also available was the In-Service retreat house near St. Ignatius where students lived for an entire week, going to school in the day and reflecting together in the evening on these life experiences and their ultimate meaning. Semester break marked a time of special sharing together in Christ as sixty juniors and seniors along with faculty members opened their community to all tin- freshmen and sophomores in the underclassmen days of renewal. Two months of rigorous organization and bloody” pulling together preceded the event, preparing the students and faculty to giv« themselves totally to the ideals they talked about in speeches and discussions. Mr. Gordon Myers, S.J., co-director of the program, commented that this was a tangible implementation of Vatican Us recommendation that Young people themselves should lx-comc the first and immediate apostles to other youths, exercising an apostolatc of their own among themselves.”