In 2017, Regis students will have the opportunity to work towards the achievement of the Regis Magis Award. In order to receive this award, boys will need to demonstrate each of the four Ignatian values of commitment, compassion, conscience and competence. Teachers will nominate students for a Magis Merit to be awarded at the Regis Student assemblies in Semester Two and students who demonstrate each of these values, earning at least one of each card will then be eligible to receive the Regis Magis award at the Regis Awards Assembly at the end of the year. This initiative follows the boys’ engagement with the Four Cs during their days of reflection in Semester One. We look forward to the opportunity to reward and recognise our students as they grow into their roles as young Ignatian men.
The Following excerpts are taken from JESUIT EDUCATION AIMS TO HUMAN EXCELLENCE: Men and Women of Conscience, Competence, Compassion and Commitment
Prepared by the Secretariat for Education Society of Jesus Rome February 2015
Conscience – students know themselves and are developing their ability to internalise and cultivate a spiritual life. They have consistent knowledge and experience of society and its imbalances. The person of conscience will feel called to look at the world, at reality, with the eyes of God; to discover the goodness and beauty of creation and individuals but also places of pain, misery and injustice. From this contemplation will come thankfulness for all the goodness received, and from this thankfulness, the desire to dedicate oneself to being an agent of change.
Competence – academic dimension that leads to solid knowledge, to a development of skills and abilities to reach professional performance that can contribute to human fulfilment. Competent students are able to interact with reality, they are the ones who have learned to be amazed, to ask questions and to be able to understand. This entails the students willingness and commitment to their education. A competent student, in the context of the human excellence, is well aware that being competent means being able to work and flourish with others.
Compassion – they are able to open their hearts to be in solidarity with and assume the suffering of others. The compassionate person is capable of evolving from feelings of charity and compassion towards a sense of justice and solidarity which favors their contribution to changing the unjust social structures of the world they live in. It combines processes of reflection and an active stance against injustice and the pain of others.Compassion doesn’t just mean feeling sorry for an individual or group of individuals. Compassion is a prerequisite for positive action.It involves recognizing human dignity and the value of the person who, just for having been born, is deeply loved by God.
Commitment – they honestly strive toward faith, and through peaceful means, work for social and political transformation and social structures to achieve justice. A person of commitment is one of courageous action. Through openness to the guidance of the Spirit and companionship with Jesus, he or she will be able to discern the urgent needs of our time, so that our ways of serving will be as rich and deep as our ways of loving.
