Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Contents Academic p. 8 The academic life balances, sharpens, and forms the mind for the significant action of charity. This first section includes administration, faculty, graduates, honorary societies, and classes. Spiritual p. 78 The Catholic education seeks to implant seeds of enduring spiritual life.” Various organizations and religious functions, such as CCD, Mass of the Holy Spirit, and the Living Rosary carry out this program. Social p. 90 The essence of charity in our social lives is the mutual reaching and striving for perfection. This is accomplished through the activities of the Student Government, and the various service and social organizations on campus, as well as by the Music Department, ROTC. and the Living Groups and Sports. Index p. 180 7

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 But above all these things have Charity which is the bond of perfection.” The academic life is more than a life of the mind; it is a preparation of the whole person. Through the use of our mind we seek the right use of created beings in order to understand and reach eternal values. The academic life balances, sharpens and forms the mind for the significant action of Charity. We learn that life is perfected in loving and in being loved. But man is a rational being; one can not love the unknown. So knowledge must precede love. The academic life is a way to penetrate beneath the surfaces of the arts and sciences to the concepts of knowledge which in turn foster Charity. By forming and increasing the mind's capacities, the academic life lays the foundation for deep and intuitive understandings. Charity, in still another sense, is the motivating force of academic vitality. As the desire for perfection, for truth, for beauty and form. Charity demands complete dedication and binds in love every understanding.