Location: Fishtown Diner (2424 E York St, Phildelphia PA, 19125) and Fishtown Philadelphia Rock Gym (2412 E York Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19125)

Date: 9/30/23

Time: 10:45am-3:30pm

Description:

Everyone wants happiness, but few know how to attain it. Why do we find ourselves so often lonely, sad, and depressed as a society, when we all crave community, happiness, and flourishing? Part of the problem rests in the differing notions of happiness--happiness as a psychological state, as wealth, as fame, as power, as pleasure, and so on. But even if we agree with the wisdom of the great Catholic philosophers and theologians that love of God and love of others is the key to happiness, how do we attain that lofty goal? The moral life, the life of virtue presents us with a nearly infinite amount of paths to arrive at our ultimate destination. How do we avoid analysis paralysis when faced with the near infinite decisions that characterize the moral life? The first step on the path of virtue, the virtue which directs all other virtues, is prudence. 

Join us as we set forth on the path of virtue through Choosing Your Path: On Prudence, the Collegium Institute Young Catholic Leaders Initiative's second Student Ambassadors event on Saturday, September 23rd, at 10:45am at the Fishtown Diner and the Fishtown Philadelphia Rock Gym. We will have brunch, a seminar, and carefully choose our way through rock climbing routes, taking Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Plutarch, and Shakespeare as our guides to becoming prudent people. 

Schedule:

10:45am-11:00am Registration
11:00am-12:00pm  Brunch
12:00pm-1:30pm Seminar on Prudence
1:30pm-3:30pm Rock Climbing

The registration deadline for Choosing Your Path: On Prudence is Thursday, September 28th. Click below to register.

And to apply to become a Collegium Institute Student Ambassador, please click below.

All Young Catholic Leaders Initiative activities this year are made possible through a generous grant from the Ambassador’s Fund for Catholic Education, the successor name to the Archdiocesan Educational Fund. This charitable organization was created and funded by Matthew H. McCloskey, Fr. (1893-1973), building contractor and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (1962-64), in 1967 to advance Catholic education and evangelization throughout the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The name of the Fund changed in February 2020.