Edm Pre Finals

• Spirituality


  The spiritual foundation and guiding principles of a religious congregation
• Charism


  The God-given gifts and purpose of a religious congregation
• SVD Spirituality


  • Focused on Jesus as missionary
  • Based on an aspect of the life of Jesus
  • Used to guide disciples and spread the Word of God
• God the Father sent Jesus to be a missionary among His children, to show us through His teaching and example, how to live our lives in righteousness, according to the Will of God
• Jesus then sent forth his disciples—as missionaries—to spread the Good News and to live their lives as His followers
• The missionary aspect of the Holy Spirit, which is always and everywhere on mission among us, is also important in SVD spirituality
• As missionaries, members live out God's call to follow in His footsteps, exemplifying His life, as His disciples
• Saint Arnold Janssen: 'May the darkness of sin and night of unbelief vanish before the light of the Word and the spirit of grace, and may the heart of Jesus live in the hearts of all. Amen'
• Charism


  The God-given gifts that a religious community offers to the world
• SVD Charism


  • Centered on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
  • Relates to the Holy Trinity
  • Strives for intercultural harmony
  • Focused on mission and preaching the Gospel
• Prophetic Dialogue


  Interacting respectfully with people from other cultures and traditions
• Groups SVD reaches out to through Prophetic Dialogue

  • Faith-seekers and those who have no faith community
  • The poor and marginalized
  • People of different cultures
  • People of different religious traditions and secular ideologies
• The SVD Motto Prayer reflects an apostolic orientation of the Society and the Founder's deep rootedness in the Holy Scripture and the tradition
• The invocation of two distinctive parts of the SVD Motto Prayer is rich in inspiration and can be explored both through its Trinitarian and Christological readings
• The University of San Carlos (USC) is a private, Catholic, research, coeducational basic and higher education institution administered by the Philippine Southern Province of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) missionaries in Cebu City, Philippines since 1935
• USC offers basic education (Montessori academy, grade school, junior high school and senior high school) and higher education (undergraduate and graduate studies)
• USC was founded originally in 1595 as Colegio de San Ildefonso, later became the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos in 1783 and finally obtained university charter in 1948
• USC has 5 campuses with combined land area of 88 hectares or 217 acres (Talamban campus has 78 hectares)
• The Commission on Higher Education has recognized 8 of USC's programs as Centers of Excellence and 12 of its programs as Centers of Development as of March, 2016
• USC is ranked by the International/Asia Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) within 451-500 in Asia as of 2021
• The Scimago institution ranking for research and innovation ranked USC as 4th (2022) among universities in the Philippines
• The Institute for Research, Innovation and Scholarship (IRIS) ranking of Philippine universities research productivity in science, engineering and health ranked USC as 8th in science, 9th in engineering and 7th in health (2021-2022)
• The university is certified with the International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001:2015 Quality Management System for Institutional and Student Support Services as of April 2022 by the British Standards Institution (BSI) International
• USC celebrates its 75th charter anniversary as a university on July 1, 2023, and in 2024 its 100 years as then Colegio de San Carlos
• USC has about 16,000 students (2022) who are called by the name Carolinians of which 300 are international students, enrolled in collegiate undergraduate and graduate programs and served by about 950 academic faculty and staff with a teacher to student ratio of 1:17
• About 500 Carolinian students are academic scholars
• Motto


  Scientia, Virtus, Devotio (Latin)
• Motto in English


  Knowledge/Excellence, Valor/Integrity, Fidelity/Commitment
• Catholic Identity


  • Education with a Mission
  • Witness to the Word
• Core Values


  • Integrity
  • Excellence
  • Commitment
  • Social Responsibility
  • Evangelization
  • Leadership
• SVD confreres in the Philippines Southern Province (PHS) are involved in education, formation, and pastoral work. USC is the largest educational institution in the SVD Philippines Southern Province
• Societas Verbi Divini (SVD) or the Society of the Divine Word is a missionary congregation founded in 1875 by St. Arnold Janssen. Today, SVD priests and brothers serve in 55 countries, including the Philippines where it is recognized as the largest male religious congregation
• Scientia


  Knowledge, competence
• Competence (under scientia)

  Excellent, competent, good professionalism, social skills, to be aware of God's presence, the why of the universe
• Virtus

  Virtues, integrity, and good character features
• Conscience (under virtus)

  Good leader, follower, honorable, morally competent, ethical, moral (self driven), moral literacy
• Devotio

  Loyalty and dedication
• Commitment (under devotio)

  Passionate, consistency, service-oriented, responsibility, culturally sensitive, practice religion
• USC Vision Statement: they seek to learn, they endeavor to acquire, they share
• Noble in character: Awareness, Reflection, Practice