The Caritas Seal

Designed by Dr. Bleecker along with students Megan Oulighan and Eliza Spencer.

At the bottom is our motto, “Speaking the truth in love,” in Latin.  It comes from Ephesians 4:15: “Speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ.”  In the upper left of the shield is a Celtic cross.  The reason for the cross is obvious; we chose a Celtic one because the Celtic monks helped preserve much classical learning in the Middle Ages.  To the right are seven stars and the moon.  The stars allude to the phrase in Philippians, “shining like stars in the universe,” which suggests that we are to shine in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation as we hold out the word of life.  The moon reminds us that our light is merely a reflection of the one true light.  On the lower left, the alternating stripes represent how Caritas is a mixture of both full-time and part-time, home-schooled students.  Finally, the book symbolizes learning in general and the Bible in particular, reminding us that learning must work together with faith.