Over a century ago, Mother Cabrini emphasized an “education of the heart” to the people she surrounded herself with. Fast forward to present day, Mother Cabrini’s legacy still lives on through the students, faculty, staff and, of course, alumni of Cabrini University.
As the Cabrini University Class of 2018 prepares themselves to move into the real world, Mother Cabrini’s mission should live on inside each graduate. Wherever you may go, take the lessons learned here at Cabrini and apply yourself to be the person Cabrini has taught you to be.
The resources we are given as Cabrini students each day help us to strengthen our minds and bodies, both morally and spiritually. It is Cabrini’s mission to teach its students, who come from a variety of different backgrounds, the importance of being engaged citizens of the world.
Cabrini implements engagement with the common good classes for this very reason: to keep us, the future generation, engaged in what is going on around us. Take these experiences and lessons Cabrini has taught you into the real world.
Don’t reflect on your engagement with the common good classes like they were just a core curriculum requirement. Reflect on these courses and remember the importance of what you have learned. There is a reason why Cabrini requires these classes. Cabrini requires them to incorporate Mother Cabrini’s “education of the heart” into each student who comes through the doors of Cabrini University.
By literally “engaging with the common good,” we learn valuable life lessons that can go a long way. These lessons help to educate us about the realities of the world we live in.
Engagement with the common good courses do exactly what Mother Cabrini wanted, to educate the heart. Reflect on the service trips, whether they were around the corner in Philadelphia, or on the other side of the globe. Embarking on these trips helped shape you in a way never thought possible. Even if it was just making a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich and delivering it to the homeless, that experience matters.
Graduating with a degree from Cabrini University comes with more than just a title. It is a rite of passage to go into the world and continue the Cabrinian ways.
Continue to live the lessons you have learned here. Don’t just depart campus for the final time as a student and forget your roots. Depart with the values Cabrini has given you and help to make the world a better place.
Whether you choose to identify as an alumnus of Cabrini College or Cabrini University, go on and do something extraordinary, while living with purpose.
Congratulations to the Cabrini Class of 2018 from the Loquitur editorial staff!
