What makes you proud to be a Bedan?

“A bedan is always a bedan” a vital philosophy that a true-blooded Bedista has, and that in fact is a philosophy that I surely will dwell on for the rest of my days. And by doing so, I am upright certain that I am a proud Bedan.
Something that fascinates me about being a Bedan is the culture of the community as a whole. Entering the world of San Beda comes with a feeling of warmth and hospitality because everyone treats one other with mutual respect and sees each other as brothers and sisters. Another thing that I have noticed in my four years of stay in this school is that people seems to transform in a way that there aren’t any dichotomy of different social classes because in this school, there is only one class, not the upper class, nor the middle class, but the Bedan class as I may call it. Its so amazing how everyone in the Bedan community gets along so well, because everyone, whether the students, professors, administrators, and even the vendors selling outside school gates appears as if they belong to one really big happy family. Aside from being a highly remarked Educational Institution in where many successful professionals graduated from, San Beda is definitely known for its Benedictine Values taught to people inside and outside the campus.

Definitely, a Bedan is high in character and even higher in values. Being a Bedan is not just simply about enrolling and studying in this institution, it is about absorbing the true Bedan Values in which St. Benedict has taught us, and keeping it inside our hearts, minds, and souls for the rest of our lives. Honestly speaking, it is not in academics that I have learned most in this school, because the most important things I’ve learned here in San Beda is Life, and I believe that there is no better place to learn what life is all about then inside your very own Alma Matter and that is what makes me proud to be a Bedan.

What makes you proud to be a Bedan?

All of us were given two great gifts, our mind and time. It is up to us to do what we please both. With every opportunity that comes, only us have the power to determine our destiny. We choose to live our life foolish, we end up nothing. Spend our lives taken for granted, we join those unproductive ones. Everyday with every opportunity, we decide and draw our own destiny.

As a Bedan, I have chosen a life work and prayer; I have learned the value of camaraderie and humility. I have been able to acquire and share the perfect knowledge needed to survive the jungle out there. With this, I have something to share with others and enable me to do my part as a citizen and a God fearing individual. As I’ve said, we determine our future by the choices we make today that’s why “I choose to be a true red blooded Bedan”.

What makes you proud to be a Bedan?

There are a lot of reasons that can make me proud of being part of the San Beda community. Being considered as a true blooded Bedan is really a great experience that I will treasure and bring for the rest of my life. I am proud of being a Bedan because of so many thing. First is the people in this Bedan community that really made me enjoy and proud of being part of this group. These are my classmates and friends, professors, priests and all the person involved from top to bottom that are all very friendly and helpful. Second is the great reputation that San Beda College has compared to other school and in the corporate world as well. I am not afraid of applying to any companies because I know to myself that I am very well equipped with the needed knowledge and information that I have to apply in my career. Lastly is the rule of St. Benedict that was taught to all Bedans “Ora Et Labora”. This is one of the very reason why I am so proud of being a Bedan is because of this very effective rule. The very powerful combination of prayer and work. In all the things we do most especially now that we are graduating and we will already start our careers we should work for our prayers and we should pray for our works. With this principle being stored not only in my mind but in my heart, I know that I have an edge to other people and I will be ready to face the new chapter of my life. With this Armour that I have inside and out, I know that in the right time of my life, I will fulfill my dreams, reach my goals and hit my target in my career life. I understand that being a Bedan has a great responsibility for I should bare in mind and in heart that all the things I do will be for San Beda, my country and God.

Rules of St. Benedict

St. Benedict Rules had influenced our life implicitly by the virtues of obedience, respect and leadership that I could bestow to our parents while they are still alive and to dedicate courteousness in them until the day they die and to our families as well and the people in our environment. Society and community were influenced by being obedient to a public leader and for a member to be aware of his responsibilities to his fellow people. Society on the other hand should form a government that is worth to be emulated by its people by setting good example for them to gain obedience from its people. Family has a major role to play in the development of every Christian to attain a good relationship with the Lord. I’ve learned how the power of having a good relationship with God through prayers and how our faith and beliefs can mold us into a better human being.

St. Benedict influences the corporate world by teaching the virtues of respect and love for work. Included among St. Benedict’s teachings are the ways on how an employee should be treated at work. St. Benedict also points out how seniority and rank in the company should be dealt with, how to motivate employees and how to urge them to give their best in their work. St. Benedict also implies that work should be treated as love made visible-- it as if our beloved would be the one to use the product we were producing. He connotes that if a person doesn’t love his work it is better for him to sit outside of the temple and ask for alms for those people who enjoy and love their work.

Perhaps the most striking characteristics in St. Benedict are his deep and wide human feeling and hismoderation. The former reveals itself in the many anecdotes recorded by St. Gregory. We see it inhis sympathy and care for the simplest of his monks; his hastening to the help of the poor Goth whohad lot his bill-hook; spending the hours of the night in prayer on the mountain to save his monks thelabour of carrying water, and to remove from their lives a "just cause of grumbling"; staying three days in a monastery to help to induce one of the monks to "remain quietly at his prayers as the other monks did", instead of going forth from the chapel and wandering about "busying himself worldly and transitory things".

St. Benedict originated a form of government which is deserving of study. It is contained inchapters 2, 3, 31, 64, 65 of the Rule and in certain pregnant phrases scattered through otherchapters. As with the Rule itself, so also his scheme of government is intended not for an order butfor a single community. He presupposes that the community have bound themselves, by their promise of stability, to spend their lives together under the Rule. The superior is then elected by a free and universal suffrage.