Catchword
“LESS IS MORE.”
More converse sneakers to match every pair of pants, more followers on social networks, more trips and further and further away, more activities in our agenda, more Champions Leagues more and more millionaires, more cars, more houses, bigger cities that grow without brake, and more food and more energy to move them, more investment for more profits in companies, … The current of our world pushes us to have’ MORE, to be MORE powerful, to enjoy MORE and MORE without limit, …
Do you remember our 19-20 course motto “the strength of the small”, those ants on our motivational poster helped us to discover the hidden strength that can exist in something apparently so small?
What if with fewer things we could value what we have and be thankful for it?
What if we discovered that when we take care of what is weak and fragile we are more human?
What if by doing less things, we realized that we can enjoy more of what happens to us every day and the people who are closer to us with peace, with calm…?
What if we valued the close friends we have and not so much the number of followers or “likes” we have on a social network?
What if we realized that our Mother Earth has a limit and does not have so many resources (food, minerals, fuels,…) to give us what the pace of life of our cities requires? What if we were aware of the damage that this form of so-called “development” causes to the poorest and to nature?
What if the secret of a full and happy life was in living with less?
What if the value were in the simple, the small, the fragile,… in HUMILITY?
During this academic year 24-25 we will once again place the value of HUMILITY at the center and become aware of how many times and in how many areas of our lives “less is more”. Inspired by this well-known quote that popularized architectural minimalism in its global formulation in English, we will make “less is more” our institutional motto for this academic year 24-25. A universal motto that has broken the boundaries of aesthetics and that sinks its roots in the most ancient spiritual traditions to be a global response for the person and the world today. A humanity that asks to slow down, that asks to decrease, that cries out that “less is more”.
We invite you to embark on a journey downward and inward to discover, together with our students, the mystery that the expression “-=+” symbolically contains. We will give ourselves this course to understand that “what is essential is invisible to the eye” and to meet great figures of our Catholic tradition such as Paul of Tarsus (who was “less than the least of all the saints” (Eph 3:8) or Francis of Assisi, the least of the brothers…. And of course, we will walk accompanied throughout the course by our Mother and her Magnificat to recognize with her that “the Lord has looked upon the simplicity of his servant (…) to do great works (…) to bring down the mighty from their thrones and to exalt the lowly (…)”,
Welcome to this journey!
