Think of the Manresa Project as a starting point for identifying your potential
You are beginning a journey and each day you travel, every encounter with another person, every decision you make — big or small — form the road you're on.
A good way to begin finding your way is by asking yourself these questions:
- Who am I?
- How do I want to live my life?
- What gifts and talents do I have?
- What are the needs of the world and how can I use my gifts and talents to meet them?
- How do faith and belief in God intersect with my life, my choices, my plans, my decisions, my behavior?
Your answers will lead you through something called discernment. This is a process of the heart through which you define your personal response to God's call. You sense your vocation.
That's what the Manresa Project is all about.
The aims and purposes of the Manresa Project are to:
- graduate students who are "men and women for others"
- promote change at the level of the individual and the institution: to engage in transformational learning
- help individuals ponder how to use their personal gifts and talents to help meet the world's needs
- steep participants in the model of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius by using its methods of prayer, reflection and discernment to ask key questions: What have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What will I do for Christ?
- help individuals discern their life goals in light of that spirituality
"Pray as if everything depended on God, but work as if everything depended on you"
-St. Ignatius
ON-CAMPUS RESOURCES
- Office of Student Development
- Campus Ministry
- University Mission & Identity
- Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality
- Gesu Parish
OFF-CAMPUS RESOURCES
- Lilly Endowment Inc. (PTEV)
- Lilly Endowment Inc. (FTE)
- Catholics On Call (CTU)
- Making the Parts Whole
- Vocation
- Jesuit Retreat House (Oshkosh)
- Casa Romero Renewal Center
Find Your Potential Through The Manresa Project
