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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 17:06:10+00:00

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Pontifex University strives to provide students with an authentically Catholic education, that is, the university seeks to be a point of contact between the student and the cultural inheritance of the revelation of Christ, in order that students may not only achieve the highest formation of their natural faculties, but ultimately that they may cooperate with divine grace in forming the true and perfect Christian, that is, to form Christ Himselfas the full flowering of their Baptism and adheres to the wisdom and to the rich tradition of the Church.
The integral formation of the human person, which is the purpose of education, includes the development of all the human faculties of the students, together with preparation for professional life, formation of ethical and social awareness, becoming aware of the transcendental, and religious education. This total formation of the person in his culture is for the sake of both his ultimate end and..the good of the societies of which, as man, he is a member, and in whose obligations… he will share.
The Catholic Christian, while not being removed from his particular culture, has become by rebirth of water and the Holy Spirit a new creature. He now participates by sanctifying grace and charity in the life of the most holy Trinity, in which the Father begets the Son and the Holy Spirit proceeds by way of their mutual love. This sharing in the divine life elevates the natural faculties of the soul so that they are capable of understanding and striving for God (faith and hope), of being moved by God (the gifts of the Holy Spirit), and of acting for the sake of ultimate union with God (the infused moral virtues). While remaining human, the baptized now has an elevated mode of being, which requires a properly Christian form of education.
The true Christian does not renounce the activities of this life, he does not stunt his natural faculties; but he develops and perfects them, by coordinating them with the supernatural. He thus ennobles what is merely natural in life and secures for it new strength in the material and temporal order, no less than in the spiritual and eternal.
For the aim and object of apostolic works is that all who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of His Church, to take part in the sacrifice, and to eat the Lord’s supper.
There is nothing authentically human – our thoughts and affections, our words and deeds – that does not find in the sacrament of the Eucharist the form it needs to be lived to the full.” As: “one’s life is being progressively transformed by the holy mysteries being celebrated”, it becomes evident that “the mysteries celebrated in the rite are linked to the missionary responsibility…of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
...That the baptized, while they are gradually introduced to knowledge of the mystery of salvation, become ever more aware of the gift of Faith they have received, and that they learn in addition how to worship God the Father in spirit and truth (cf. John 4:23) especially in liturgical action, and be conformed in their personal lives according to the new man created in justice and holiness of truth (Eph. 4:22-24); also that they develop into perfect manhood, to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ (cf. Eph. 4:13) and strive for the growth of the Mystical Body; moreover, that aware of their calling, they learn not only how to bear witness to the hope that is in them (cf. Peter 3:15) but also how to help in the Christian formation of the world that takes place when natural powers viewed in the full consideration of man redeemed by Christ contribute to the good of the whole society.
In Jesus, we contemplate beauty and splendor at their source. This is no mere aestheticism, but the concrete way in which the truth of God's love in Christ encounters us, attracts us and delights us, enabling us to emerge from ourselves and drawing us towards our true vocation, which is love.
Proclaiming Christ means showing that to believe in and to follow him is not only something right and true, but also something beautiful.
Hence, Pontifex University strives to form in students, both speculatively and practically, a sensitivity to beauty, an appreciation of beauty, and an aptitude for creating beauty of the particularly Catholic kind, whether in artistic pursuits or simply in a well-ordered life.
 Pope Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri, Encyclical (Rome, 1929), §94, http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_31121929_divini-illius-magistri.html.
 The Catholic School (The Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1977), §26, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_19770319_catholic-school_en.html.
 Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith (The Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1982) §17, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_19821015_lay-catholics_en.html.
 Pope Paul VI, Gravissimum Educationis, Declaration on Christian Education (Rome, 1965), §1, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_gravissimum-educationis_en.html.
 Pope Paul VI, Gravissimum Educationis, §2.
 Pope Paul XI, Divini Illius Magistri, §95, 94.
 Benedict XVI, “Meeting with Catholic Educators” (address given during the Apostolic Journey to the United States of America and Visit to the United Nations Organization Headquarters, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, April 17, 2008), http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2008/april/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20080417_cath-univ-washington.html.
 Pope Paul XI, Divini Illius Magistri, §98.
 cf. Pope Paul VI, Gravissimum Educationis, §8.
 Dom Alcuin Reid, Sacred Liturgy: The Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014), 15.
 Pope Paul VI, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Rome, 1963), §10, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html.
 Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (Rome, 2007), §71, http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis.html.
 Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis, §64.
 Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, Encyclical (Rome, 2005), §14, http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html.
 Catechism of the Catholic Church, §1324, http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM.
 Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis, §35.
 Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, Apostolic Exhortation (Rome, 2013), §167, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html.

References: §94
 §26
 §17
 §1
 §2
 §95
 §98
 §8
 §10
 §71
 §64
 §14
 §1324
 §35
 §167