Mission

Since its foundation, Antonine University (UA) has recognized the central role of Pastoral Care within its mission. The University has appointed a chaplain responsible for its three campuses and has dedicated a space where members of the community can gather for meetings, reflection, and shared activities.

Through Pastoral Care, UA seeks to foster an atmosphere of comfort, joy, and inner peace. This environment allows students to connect with their spirituality, express their faith, reflect on questions that engage their minds and hearts, and build meaningful relationships with others, with themselves, and with God.

Pastoral Care offers a space where students are free to explore the meaning and purpose of life and to seek answers to existential questions. Through open discussions, shared reflections, and personal testimonies, students are encouraged to strengthen their bonds with one another. They are also given the opportunity to live according to their religious values within the UA community and in the wider society.

In this way, UA students are invited not only to develop their academic knowledge, but also to broaden their spiritual, human, and social horizons.

Message of the Chaplain

The mission of Pastoral Care is to bring a living Christian presence to the university community.

We believe that the human, religious, and spiritual formation of students should stand on the same level as their academic formation. Education is complete only when it nurtures the whole person.

For this reason, university pastoral activities seek to cultivate critical thinking enlightened by the Christian faith, to encourage a commitment that is open to the challenges of contemporary Lebanese society, and to inspire the building of a personal relationship with Christ, the model of the fully realized human being.

We believe in thinking, and we think with belief.

Fr. Ruben Makol