To understand the soul of the Ateneo de Manila Uni...

To understand the soul of the Ateneo de Manila University, what shaped it and where it came here, where it is going and where it can you, it is essential to understand its motto, Lux in Domino, or "Light in the Lord."

To be "light in the Lord" in all fullness demands moving insistently and deliberately towards God as the center of a person's life, identifying the issues that such a centering poses, and then moving out to the world to find ever new ways of constructing the edifice, cultivating the garden, painting the masterpiece, that God is unfolding in one's life. It is a call to be that light of the Lord in the world.

The Ateneo de Manila University celebrates its 145th anniversary and 145 years of the return of Jesuit Education to the Philippines on December 10, 2004.