Essay Topic:

A student revealing his thirst for the search of self-improvement and spirituality if given the opportunity to study the Santa Clara University.

Essay Questions:

Why does the applicant consider that children are the future of the Church? What is the specialization of the applicant? How can Santa Clara University help the applicant to become closer to God and self- improve?

Thesis Statement:

That is why I consider Santa Clara University with its reputation in term of academic and discipline to be the place to get the knowledge that would make me worthy of spreading the God’s word among kids.

Santa Clara University Admission Essay

Introduction: If someone would have asked me where is God I would reply he is right here, in our kids. And if someone would have asked me who is the future of the Church I would say that I see children as a future of the Church, but they have to be taught to love Christ. As my apostolate work is to teach children catechetic and I put all my faith into it. I truly believe that what I am doing will help them to reveal God. I am used to being trained by catholic schools and I highly value the morality taught to me. That is why I consider Santa Clara University with its reputation in term of academic and discipline to be the place to get the knowledge that would make me worthy of spreading the God’s word among kids. Spirituality would give me the power and the knowledge to direct children to a higher state of feeling and seeing God.

I am an accountant for a Proto-Cathedral now, I have a B.A in Liberal Studies and though I am a member of a Roman Catholic Congregation and I teach children catechetics, this is not even close enough to how much more I should learn before I can really teach these little God’s creatures to feel God, to understand that God is in everything around us. I want to be worthy of showing my little students the kingdom of God.Our Congregation deals with education and as I mentioned before I work as an accountman in a Proto-Cathedral. Unfortunately my job has nothing to do with education. And only my apostolate work is easily connected with it as I teach catechetic and our mother language –Vietnamese. In addition to that I have a lot of people wanting me to tell them about God, about the Bible. These parishioners often share the troubles happening in their lives and ask for advice; they ask me a lot of religious questions. People ask me so many questions that I feel I have that I need a solid knowledge in Spirituality. I want to be able to help them, not to leave their words without response. My knowledge in Spirituality would be beneficial in helping my parishioners.

Conclusion: I believe that Santa Clara University would give me the knowledge to the way of showing children how they can see Christ in each other, how they can feel him. I would know that the catechetical knowledge I teach helps them in their everyday life. Spirituality would give me the ability to communicate with people using the deep knowledge about God and Christian morality Santa Clara University can give me. Then and only then my heart would feel that it is doing itsprescriotion. I read a lot books in Spirituality and I consider Self-improvement to be of a big importance for me. My goal is to make my knowledge in Spirituality to become a mean of teaching, therefore helping people. I want to show Christ to them. I want them to feel Christ.