Speech on Faith, Service, and Academics
Faith, Academics, and Service are three very powerful key points in a Catholic
Education, however they self-explanatory, so I’m going to talk about what they mean to me and how those three words can imply something different to all of us. But what we do not realize is that they have the same meaning behind them. All of these components make up a Catholic student, teacher, faculty member, and school. We are all called to follow these three things so that we may grow in our trust and belief in God, otherwise known as faith. Many people, when they realize that they must live by faith, make the mistake of confusing faih with emotion. My faith is in our Lord, our savoir, our compassionate forgiving God. Living by faith does not mean reasoning and supposing what God would have us do. It means we come to “know” what God would have us do.
Now I will talk about Academics. We cannot go through life with no way of communicating, reading, spelling, knowing about our past, solving problems because we are responsible to build our future. It is up to me, you, us if it will be good or bad. It’s like the first lady, Mrs. Obama, said in her recent
2012 Catholic Schools Week speech, “Today 99 percent of Catholic school students graduate from high school and 97 percent go on to college.” And she continues by quoting "But just as Archbishop Wuerl said, “Not only do Catholic educators develop young minds, but they also prepare children for lives of compassion and service.” As the legendary Washington’s Cardinal Hickey once explained, “We don’t educate children because they’re Catholic, but because we’re Catholic.” Those are words that we should all live by: to do things for others, not for ourselves. This brings us to the next topic. We all know what service is, but do we do it enough? As a student at Sacred
Heart Elementary School, I have learned the importance of service and because of the in depth lessons it will remain important to
Education, however they self-explanatory, so I’m going to talk about what they mean to me and how those three words can imply something different to all of us. But what we do not realize is that they have the same meaning behind them. All of these components make up a Catholic student, teacher, faculty member, and school. We are all called to follow these three things so that we may grow in our trust and belief in God, otherwise known as faith. Many people, when they realize that they must live by faith, make the mistake of confusing faih with emotion. My faith is in our Lord, our savoir, our compassionate forgiving God. Living by faith does not mean reasoning and supposing what God would have us do. It means we come to “know” what God would have us do.
Now I will talk about Academics. We cannot go through life with no way of communicating, reading, spelling, knowing about our past, solving problems because we are responsible to build our future. It is up to me, you, us if it will be good or bad. It’s like the first lady, Mrs. Obama, said in her recent
2012 Catholic Schools Week speech, “Today 99 percent of Catholic school students graduate from high school and 97 percent go on to college.” And she continues by quoting "But just as Archbishop Wuerl said, “Not only do Catholic educators develop young minds, but they also prepare children for lives of compassion and service.” As the legendary Washington’s Cardinal Hickey once explained, “We don’t educate children because they’re Catholic, but because we’re Catholic.” Those are words that we should all live by: to do things for others, not for ourselves. This brings us to the next topic. We all know what service is, but do we do it enough? As a student at Sacred
Heart Elementary School, I have learned the importance of service and because of the in depth lessons it will remain important to