Campus living at Magdalen College offers students the opportunity to experience a close-knit community where life-long friendships develop and where the joyful pursuit of wisdom animates community life.
We embrace fully the great journey of liberal education, the gifts of youth, the potential for greatness, and the call to fidelity that have been entrusted to us. We delight in our friendships and enjoy the goodness of our community, expressed through our reading the great books together, casual conversations over lunch, adventures off campus, and special on-campus events—including dances, dinners, bonfires, sports, retreats, speakers, plays, concerts, and more—that mark our collegiate life.
We give ourselves fully to our education but we also seek and relish together the higher things rooted in the embodied goodness of the created order: we learn together, pray together, relax together, and we grow together.
We invite you to join us in a community where the dignity of the human person–reflecting the created imago Dei–is always honored, where friendship and solidarity create an openness to others, and where caritas animates how we understand ourselves and guides us toward our highest ends.
Together we form communities of …
Students
The liberal education we offer is not for the faint of heart: the journey to freedom— intellectual and spiritual freedom—is a high calling that we undertake together.
Faith
We integrate a rich liturgical life with the great traditions of the Church, cultivating the conditions within the hearts and minds of our students for an encounter with Christ.
Friends
Students experience a close-knit community where life-long friendships develop and where the joyful pursuit of wisdom animates community life.
Service
A culture of service guided by solidarity, subsidiarity and human dignity permeates our daily life as we serve one another, our local community, and the wider world.
Beauty
Beauty surrounds us. The beauty of our New England campus, beautiful music and art, and liturgical beauty are integral parts of every student’s experience.
Strength
Plato believed that education should attend to both the soul and the body. How might we approach this integration for liberal education today? Might rowing play a part?
Student Organizations
Our students create, lead, and participate in organizations that enrich our collegiate community in unexpected ways.
Residential Living
Most students live in the campus residences that are ideal for study and leisure, include a chapel in which the Blessed Sacrament is reserved, and have private baths.
Guided by Principles for a Common Life
The policies that guide our common life are contained the college’s Student Handbook. These reflect a Catholic understanding of human nature and purpose.
DAY 5 #consecration Novena to the Blessed Trinity
- narrated by John C, Admissions Officer
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Jesus the Son, you always honor, and adore, and praise your heavenly Father. Thank you for allowing us to share in this relationship. It is inspiring and comforting to know that our worship takes part in the eternal worship that you offer to the Father. By the power of your Spirit, keep us from idolatry, deepen our trust in you, and help us to place our highest loyalty and identity in the Blessed Trinity. #pray #comeandsee #DucInAltum #catholiccollege #magdalen #Novena #trinity
Magdalen students recently enjoyed a social and dance with students from Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts.
#catholiccollege #liberalarts #newmanguidecollege #DucInAltum #magdalen
DAY 4 #consecration Novena to the Blessed Trinity
- narrated by Daja G, Director of Food Services
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Living together amidst deep differences is difficult. Unity is not something we can achieve by our own power. It is a gift from you, O Blessed Trinity, who maintains perfect unity in diversity. Holy Spirit, be our peace and our fellowship. Unite us as members of the Body of Christ by incorporating us into your Son's relationship to the Father. #trinity #DucInAltum #pray #comeandsee #magdalen #Novena #catholiccollege
DAY 3 #Consecration Novena to the Blessed Trinity
- narrated by alumnus Mark S.
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By your mercy, Father, we do not approach you by our own merit and power. Rather, you enable us to unite with your Son, who prays to you without ceasing. Thank you for the gift of participating in the prayer of Jesus your Son—for the possibility of referring intimately to the God of the universe as “Our Father.” Help us, Holy Spirit, to be faithful in prayer, and when we do not know how to pray, continue to intercede for us with sighs too deep for words. (Rom. 8:26) #comeandsee #Novena #trinity #catholiccollege #DucInAltum #magdalen #pray
DAY 2 #Consecration Novena to the Blessed Trinity
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By opening the circle of your love to us, we are no longer aliens or strangers to you or to each other. You have called us to become members of your family. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for making us adopted children of God by uniting us to Christ. Father, as we prepare to consecrate ourselves to the Blessed Trinity, send forth the Spirit of your Son into our hearts in a fresh way, so that we might know you as "Abba! Father!" (Rom. 8:15)
#comeandsee #magdalen #catholiccollege #Novena #DucInAltum #trinity #pray
