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VIRTUE-BASED RESTORATIVE DISCIPLINE (VBRD)

Virtue-Based Restorative Discipline (VBRD) is a spiritual approach to disciplining that cultivates virtue and provides a rich foundation for fostering faith both at home and at school. This program was developed in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis by the Director of School Climate, Lynne Lang. VBRD can significantly improve school culture, relationships at home, and increase faith practices. Those affected by this movement are becoming the voice of hope – a necessary virtue to change the face of the future for Catholic parishes and schools.
Our goal at St. Monica is to decrease anti-social behaviors by creating quality relationships and holding students accountable to restore relationships that have been harmed and to increase faith practices through education on virtues and integration of faith through prayer and virtue-based activities at home and school.

THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF VBRD
1. We will dedicate ourselves to living virtue.
2. We will support others in living virtue
3. We will commit to constructive thoughts, words, and deeds.
4. When faced with challenges or conflicts, we will find solutions that cultivate virtue for ourselves and one another.
MONTHLY VIRTUES
For this school year, the virtues have been chosen to reflect the Fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23.
- August: Joy
- September: Faithfulness
- October: Kindness
- November: Gratitude
- December: Goodness
- January: Peace
- February: Love
- March: Self Control
- April: Hope
- May: Gentleness
OUR VIRTUE PRAYERS
Opening Prayer - Colossians Prayer
Dear Lord,
We are your chosen ones, holy and beloved. Help us to grow in heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, so we may bear with one another and be forgiving. If we have a grievance against another, may we be as forgiving as you have been with us? And over all these virtues may we put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. Let your perfect peace control our hearts, the peace that calls us into one body. We are thankful, in your holy name. Amen.

Ending Prayer – Prayer of St. Francis
Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy
O divine master grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it's in dying that we are born to eternal life
Amen
The goal of a virtuous life is to become like God.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church

Additional VBRD resources can be found here: Virtue-Based Restorative Discipline.