SF 5: Mission and Vocation

This class draws the students' focus toward the contemplation of the Christian's mission in the world and the student's vocation. It explores leadership, roles in the family and Church, as well as the process for discernment and the spiritualities, gifts, and challenges of the various vocations. This course is meant to help the students experience the Faith as a lived reality in the midst of their intellectual study of God and the world. Rather than treating religion as just another academic subject, the method for this course is based on the catechetical model of Christ--apprenticeship, prayer, and discipleship. Hence, though the topics integrate with and complement the material covered in the Trivium/Philosophy/Theology sequence and in the
Great Books sequence, the focus is upon learning how to assimilate truth into daily life, ideas into action. The overarching goals of the course are growth in virtue and holiness and a closer encounter with Christ.