Order of Friars Minor Schools

Franciscan Schools are institutions of evangelization of the Franciscans of the Province of San Pedro Bautista – Philippines. They are concrete places for achieving integral unity of each person’s multitude dimensions of relations in freedom and responsibility towards social advancement by advocating the examples and ideals of Saint Francis of Assisi’s witnessing to Jesus Christ in expressing and signifying the presence of God’s Kingdom in society.

Purpose of Education

At the beginning of educational practice, a tradition developed by the Franciscan thinkers like Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and John Duns Scotus, the Friars Minor share the Church’s commitment for social promotion as encountered “in the mystery of the incarnation” carried out with Gospel Spirit. Education is to progress all men and women to go beyond their limits and inconsistencies towards Jesus, the new humanity.

Nature of Learners

RELATIONS

Person is a core of relations with:

  • Creation. A person sharing many physical and chemical laws with nature, the vital elements of existence
  • Others. Being brothers in the revealed truth that all are children of the same Father and being minors in the attitude of Jesus who, being the Master and Lord, took the form of a slave and put himself to the service of his brothers.
  • God. A sense of mystery of his/her existence in search for the ultimate meaning of life in a relationship that transcends beyond the limits of time and space.
  • Oneself. In the image and likeness of God, a person of feelings, desires, dreams, decisions, values, beliefs and with his/her body attracted towards the beauty of life.

UNIQUE

Person is unique and unrepeatable mystery manifesting particular manner of thinking, feeling, choosing and acting – fostering growth through self-knowledge and the search for the will of God.

HISTORICAL

Person is a historical event of freedom and experiences in the concrete reality of time and culture.

INTEGRAL

Person is an integral harmony of the heart (freedom and decision), the mind (Knowledge), the hands (action) and the feet (reality) in interrelationship and of self-involvement in the physical, psychological, existential and spiritual dimensions – a microcosm or a perfect summary of the spiritual and material world.