2015-16 GD CAPSTONE MEETING 4INTELLECTUALLY COMPETENT
Meeting 4 – Intellectually Competent: January (prior to Service Projects)
Leader: Let’s quiet ourselves and invite God into our space today
ALL:
O Lord, join us as we pray and as we share.
Leader: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
ALL:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
Petitions (Have the students speak aloud prayers and intentions that they are carrying with them.)
Grad at Grad – INTELLECTUALLY COMPETENT
Regis Jesuit graduates master those academic requirements necessary for advancing their formal education and skillfully
using the fundamental tools of learning. Moreover, graduates realize the need to practice intellectual integrity. For example,
Regis Jesuit graduates:
• Master the essential knowledge presented in curricular and extracurricular experiences which reflect a diverse and
broad worldview.
• Clearly articulate and effectively utilize the knowledge gained in classes with sensitivity and insight into the
challenges facing the individual, the students’ immediate community, and the world community.
• Live in the light of the education received at Regis Jesuit and pursue a reflective and introspective life. They actively
apply this knowledge to the issues facing the world community and respond to those issues with new and creative
solutions.
Reading: Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903
...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try
to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search
for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to
live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even
noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Reflective Questions:
• What does the above quote from Rilke mean to you? What do you think about “lov(ing) the questions” and “liv(ing)
your way into the answer” and what does this have to do with being Intellectually Competent?
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Why is it important to you that you get a good education? Do you feel that Regis Jesuit has helped to form you as a
woman of intellectual competence?
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What do you think the importance of having diverse opinions and perspectives has on your growth in terms of being
intellectually competent?
Discussion of reflection
Closing Prayer: God Be In My Head
God be in my head
and in my understanding.
God be in my eyes
and in my looking.
God be in my mouth
and in my speaking.
God be in my heart
and in my thinking.
God be at my end
and in my parting.
(Sarum Primer -1527)