Saint Francis Thanksgiving Tree, Be Inspired

It is with immense joy that we announce: The Saint Francis Thanksgiving Tree is now installed on Level One of CIHE campus as an expression of our heartfelt thanks to donors for their gracious contributions. The Thanksgiving Tree is incorporated on a display board with a creative design in 4-dimension and 5-sense sensation, disseminating as a whole the messages of gratitude, Catholic beliefs and values of higher education.

In an expression of gratitude, we are saying a BIG “Thank You” to our contributors in multi-national languages for rendering their faithful support to Caritas Institute of Higher Education (CIHE) on our journey towards the establishment of Saint Francis University.

To visualize Catholic beliefs, the display of The Saint Francis Thanksgiving Tree is set by a stream of water to imply that the Tree, while yielding its fruits in each season, its leaves do not wither. This signifies that God bless those who love the Law of God and meditate his Law day and night. Fruits of the Spirit on The Thanksgiving Tree symbolize Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control.

At the right and left ends of the display board the signs of The Signature Tree orchestrate the theme “It takes a decade to grow a tree but a century to bring up a good person”. With our dedicated loving care and whole person education approach, CIHE and Caritas Bianchi College of Careers (CBCC) are committed to bringing up well-built students who are ready to make contributions to the community.


聖方濟各感恩樹 「他要像一棵樹栽在溪水旁 ， 按時候結果子 ， 葉子也不枯乾…… 」

「聖方濟各感恩樹」經已面世了！我們非常高興地宣佈，萬眾期待的「聖方濟各感恩樹」現已裝置在明愛專上學院地下大堂入口處。感恩樹和背景展板運用了四維空間和五官感覺的創意設計。整個設計表達學院的辦學理念，天主教信念和高等教育價值，並以多國語言說出「謝謝」，向捐助學院邁向「聖方濟各大學」的支持者致以衷心感謝。

「聖方濟各感恩樹」的設計展示了一棵樹栽在溪水旁，以視覺藝術演繹聖經的信息「他要像一棵樹栽在溪水旁 ， 按時候結果子 ， 葉子也不枯乾…… 」，表達專心愛好上主法律和晝夜思想上主誡命的人是蒙福的！另外，感恩樹上結出纍纍果實，象徵聖神九果，表達受信仰薰陶的人會結出以下果子：仁愛、喜樂、和平、忍耐、恩慈、良善、信實、溫柔、節制。

在展板的左右兩端，裝置了本學院特色的「標誌樹」，呼應「十年樹木，百年樹人」的主題。明愛專上學院與明愛白英奇專業學校以關愛和全人教育模式，致力作育英才，期盼莘莘學子以愛服務人群，貢獻社會。