GREEN and GREY Prayer Book LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND 1 Greetings: Loyola University Maryland cares about each of you. We look forward to getting to know you and seeing the ways in which you will influence and contribute to this University. Prayer and reflection are vital aspects of the Loyola Experience and regardless of your faith perspective, I encourage you to give some time Offered by Rev. Brian F. Linnane, for prayer and reflection in your busy lives. This prayer book is filled with S.J, the 24th President of prayers and reflections used in various programs and retreats. Many are Loyola University Maryland. used in spiritual and faith inspired programs and we have invited members of our community to share their own special or personal prayers with you. from The Cure at Troy So hope for a great sea-change As a student at Loyola, I was encouraged to deepen my faith and “choose by Seamus Heaney on the far side of revenge. what better leads to God’s deepening life in me.” As a leader in the Believe that a further shore administration, I am inspired by the generosity of the faculty and staff who Human beings suffer, is reachable from here. give so deeply of themselves to champion the hopes and dreams of the they torture one another, Believe in miracles students and the community. Together, the faculty, staff, administrators they get hurt and get hard. and cures and healing wells. and students pray and work in a spirit that seeks justice for all of God’s No poem or play or song creation and engages in a “faith that does justice.” can fully right a wrong Call the miracle self-healing: inflicted or endured. The utter self-revealing By living, learning and working at Loyola, you will be prepared for anything double-take of feeling. and you will be prepared for everything! Our support of you is unparalleled The innocent in goals If there’s fire on the mountain and your spiritual growth matters. We look forward to accompanying you beat their bars together. Or lightening and storm as your companion on this exciting journey. A hunger-striker’s father And god speaks from the sky stands in the graveyard dumb. On behalf of our President and the entire Mission Group, The police widow in veils That means someone is hearing welcome to Loyola! faints at the funeral home. the outcry and the birth-cry of new life at its term. Robert D. Kelly, Ph.D. History says, Don’t hope Vice President & Special Assistant to the President On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. 2 3 Table of Contents Mission and Values pg. 6 Academic Excellence pg. 8 Focus on the Whole Person pg. 14 Integrity and Honesty pg. 20 Diversity pg. 26 Community pg. 30 Justice pg. 36 Service pg. 42 Leadership pg. 50 Discernment pg. 54 Constant Challenge to Improve pg. 59 Additional Prayers & Wisdom pg. 63 The Examen pg. 86 4 5 Mission Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university As a Jesuit, Catholic university with a 165-year history, Loyola committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the University Maryland adopts and adapts these characteristic Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the emphases of the Ignatian heritage, and reflects them in its life development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University and work by encouraging all of its constituents to cultivate and will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and to live by certain core values. changing world. Academic Excellence Focus on the Whole Person Core Values Integrity & Honesty From the time of their founding nearly 500 years ago, the Diversity Jesuits have had a distinctive way of looking at life. The Ignatian Community worldview emphasizes openness and enthusiasm toward the whole of God’s richly diverse creation and for the human Justice person as its crowning glory; hopefulness and pragmatism Service in seeking graced solutions to life’s challenges, tempered by Leadership realism and compassion about the reality of human weakness; sustained critical attention to motivations and choices based Discernment on the conviction that individuals, through the exercise of their Constant Challenge to Improve freedom, exert a real influence on their world and one another; and commitment to a life of growing integrity and increasing service to God and to others. 6 7 Academic Excellence The Jesuit motto Ad majorem Dei gloriam means “for foster active personal engagement as well as collaboration. the greater glory of God,” and nowhere has the pursuit of It strives in various ways to foster, recognize, and reward greater heights of human achievement been better or more high standards of professionalism and excellence in learning, consistently exemplified in the Jesuit educational tradition than teaching, and scholarship. It also seeks to promote high levels in the pursuit of academic excellence. The preeminence and of expectation and accountability across its constituencies, consistency of this value in Jesuit schools no doubt explain why which naturally includes a commitment to academic honesty academic excellence is the hallmark most often associated with as expressed in its honor code and attendant policies. Loyola a Jesuit education. pursues academic excellence by preserving the intellectual heritage of the past while at the same time boldly advancing At Loyola, the pursuit of academic excellence includes to embrace the future. This value thus contributes to a sense promoting a love for learning, discovery, and integration across a of Loyola’s mission and identity as Catholic insofar as the wide range of disciplines and interests. The ideal of integration, University “assists in the protection and advancement of in particular, represents one expression of Loyola’s Catholic human dignity and of a cultural heritage” of humanism broadly character: The University seeks that “higher synthesis of construed. Loyola also joins itself to a long and venerable Jesuit knowledge, in which alone lies the possibility of satisfying that tradition of encouraging education which is unapologetically thirst for truth which is profoundly inscribed on the heart of open to faith and values, and which strives to integrate intellect the human person.” Loyola also situates itself within the Jesuit with faith and with action for justice. tradition of openness to a wide range of ideas by fostering and protecting academic freedom. It seeks to inculcate habits of Here again, Loyola embodies its Catholic heritage which thinking which are both critical and creative. It seeks to provide encourages it “to promote dialogue between faith and reason, state-of-the-art facilities and to employ methodologies that so that it can be seen more profoundly how faith and reason bear harmonious witness to the unity of all truth.” Lastly, Loyola seeks to instill a love for learning in its constituent members which will create in them lifelong habits of ongoing learning and growth. In all this, Loyola seeks to enhance a growing sense of school pride within the institution, as well as a growing reputation for excellence outside it. “…magis is that… inner longing, that restlessness for that which is always out of our reach, but that which beckons us and allures us, and entices us to reach beyond where we are now.” —Fr. Bryan Massingale 8 9 Prayer for Preparation to Study Father, Lord, I know you are with me and love me. Be with me as I take this exam. Give me peace of mind as I prepare for this time of study. Keep my mind alert and my memory sharp. Help me to focus on my books and notes, Calm my nerves and help me concentrate. keep me from all distractions so that I will make the best use I know that you walk with me, of this time that is available to me. Guiding my path and inspiring my heart. I pray that I would feel you with me, Give me insight that I might understand what I am studying , And that your friendship would soften the pressure I feel. and help me to remember it when the time comes. I pray that I would pass this exam and go on to new things with you. Above all, I thank you for the ability to be able to study Thank you for your peace and your love in my life. and for the many gifts and talents you have given me. Thank you for your kindness and care for me. Help me always to use them in such a way Amen that they honour you and do justice to myself. —Prayer from Salesians of Don Bosco Ireland Amen God, bless our students: Bless them with curiosity to pursue the questions of their hearts and minds, Bless them with imagination, ingenuity and rigor to excel in their studies, Bless them with community and relationships to support and nurture them, Bless them with freedom to follow where God is calling them and Bless them with courage and compassion to work for a more just and humane world. Amen —Seán Bray, Director of Campus Ministry 10 11 My God, enable me to trust in the good outcome Prayer of Solomon for Wisdom of the test I am about to take; God of my ancestors, Lord of mercy, help me to contribute my own share you who have made all things by your word of optimism and confidence. And in your wisdom have established humankind to rule the creatures produced by you, With your grace, my God, And to govern the world in holiness and righteousness, I hope to crown my efforts with success.