Mission Renewal - Action Items

 

 

 

 

Action Items
24 August 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Overall Conclusions

• Remember always that our actions speak louder than our words.
• This process/experience needs to be expanded to include other members of the Prep community.
• Our efforts at Discernment and Renewal need to be sustained as an on-going, regular process.

Catholic

• Begin each class, meeting, activity with a prayer.
• Celebrate liturgies for smaller groups of students. Do this more often.
• Create small faith communities.
• Increase knowledge and experience of the Catholic faith both in and out of the classroom. Curriculum review and refreshment in light of mission. Outside speakers. Role modeling.

 Jesuit

• Design, develop and implement a course on Jesuit History and Ignatian Spirituality.
• Promote experiences of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius.
• Promote a greater awareness and knowledge of Jesuit/Ignatian terms and phrases throughout the Prep community.
• Design, produce and distribute lapel pins celebrating that we are “Men for and with Others.”
• Design, develop and initiate an Ignatian Heritage Week.

Urban

• Increase Ignatian service opportunities in the immediate neighborhood.
• Recruit and offer increased financial aid and academic support for city students.
• Achieve greater ethnic/social and economic diversity.
• Explore the possibility of a Cristo Rey High School in Philadelphia

College Preparatory

• Consistent accountability
• Curriculum review and development in light of a shared understanding of mission
• Better supervision, evaluation and professional support for faculty.