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Our Guiding Principles Our Philosophy Notre Dame is a Catholic residential and coeducational College dedicated to the primacy of the spiritual in true Christian education. The program of the College is developed according to the teaching and the moral and liturgical practice of the Roman Catholic Church. Its aim is the growth of individuals with deeply rooted personal values, who are ready to take responsibility for their own lives and to serve the true needs of our society in Canada and the world. This aim is achieved through the College's program of studies and of religious, cultural and social activities, with a special emphasis on athletics. It is also reached through the experience of community life in the College, a life involving both cooperation and competition in the context of the prairie village of Wilcox. Founded by Father James Athol Murray under the patronage of the Notre Dame, Our Lady, the College is certainly Catholic in character, purpose and methods, but it has always been open to those of other faiths. Long before ecumenism became popular, Notre Dame was welcoming and encouraging not just Catholics, but all students to seek God, put their faith in Him and live in accordance with their beliefs. The College of today continues both Father Murray's Catholic commitment and his breadth of vision. Our Vision That Notre Dame, under the guidance of Almighty God, may serve, in the generations to come, the highest interests of mankind by drawing into a common fellowship the members of the faculty and the student body. That the members of Notre Dame may discover within its walls the true education that is to be found in good fellowship, in friendly disputation and debate, in the conversation of wise and prudent men and women, in music, pictures and the play, in the casual book, in sports and games and the mastery of the body and lastly, that Notre Dame may be dedicated to the task of arming youth with strength and suppleness of limb, with clarity of mind and depth of understanding and with a spirit of true religion and high endeavor. Our Mission To lead our Hounds to understand that |
