The Lux in Domino Award is a special recognition of an extraordinary individual who has incarnated in life, and perhaps even in death, in an exemplary manner, the noblest ideals of the Ateneo de Manila University. Recipients of the award are chosen exclusively from the ranks of alumni or alumnae of the Ateneo de Manila University.
The title of the Award is taken from the motto of the Ateneo which appears both in the old and new seals. Taken from St Paul (Ephesians 5:8), the phrase Lux in Domino, “light in the Lord,” traces an ideal and sketches a way of life which the Ateneo holds up to her sons and daughters as their path of Christian discipleship. These words illuminate the purposes and aims of the University which point that the Ateneo is FILIPINO, CATHOLIC, and JESUIT:
FILIPINO, in that she seeks service to the nation and the objectives of genuine national development.
CATHOLIC, in that her fundamental character is the Gospel of Jesus and the beatitudes; that her guidelines are those of the teaching of the Catholic Church. In the contemporary perspective, those guidelines focus on service to the Faith which today includes the Promotion of Justice as a constitutive dimension of the task of evangelization.
JESUIT, in that she seeks to live the Filipino and Catholic marks in the spirit of the magis (the “ever more”): to seek the ever more generous, the ever more “totally given” service; nothing held back, in the spirit of the Ignatian prayer,
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to seek for rest,
to labour and ask for no reward…
To be “light in the Lord,” in all fullness may demand a following of Christ even to the offering of one’s life.
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