Charlotte OstermannFebruary 28, 2024Dorothy SayersComment

The Everlasting Nights

Leisure “is not a trifling with unimportant things, but a vision of all the innumerable important things in the universe which are in themselves even more important than bread and cheese.”

Gilbert Keith ChestertonFebruary 19, 2024ChestertonComment

The Veiled Self

C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece: Till We Have Faces

Intellectual LifeCharlotte OstermannFebruary 14, 2024C.S. Lewis, personhoodComment

Tonight: Love in Truth

Come to the school tonight for a rich discussion of the encyclical Caritas in Veritate. You needn’t read ahead! A digest will be given so we can enjoy sharing our thoughts about this provocative work from Pope Benedict XVI.

6-8 p.m.

Community Life, Culture, Education, Intellectual LifeCharlotte OstermannFebruary 12, 2024Comment

Seeking Wonder in a Book

The Founders of our Academy dreamed of the school as the hub of a learning community. The author of this reflection on her reading is a member of that wider community, as are all our Wonder & Joy readers. Her essay illustrates how books lead us deeper into community, contemplation and faith.

Community Life, Education, Family, Intellectual LifeNicki JohnstonFebruary 7, 2024Comment

The Philosophy of Islands

“Why is it that a child who would be furious if told by his nurse not to walk off the kerbstone, invents a whole desperate system of footholds and chasms in a plane in which his nurse can see little but a commodious level?”

Gilbert Keith ChestertonJanuary 29, 2024ChestertonComment

Charlotte OstermannJanuary 24, 2024Fr. SchallComment

Playing the Think-Off Game

Intellectual LifeCharlotte OstermannJanuary 17, 2024freedom, writingComment

Tonight: A Journey to Truth

Come to the school tonight to discuss Fr. Luigi Giussani’s The Journey to Truth is an Experience. No need to read (or even to have) the book!

6-8 p.m.

Community Life, Culture, Education, Intellectual LifeCharlotte OstermannJanuary 8, 2024Comment

Save the Dates!

Spring Enrichment Seminars are on the way. Please save your second Mondays for great conversation among a growing group of very interesting Catholics of various ages!

Charlotte OstermannDecember 27, 2023Comment

Tonight at 6: Doors in the Walls of the World

Please come to the discussion of Peter Kreeft’s Doors in the Walls of the World.

Charlotte OstermannDecember 11, 2023Comment

Meltdown

Humanity is crucial in a crisis!

EducationCharlotte OstermannDecember 7, 2023freedom, communicationComment

Charlotte OstermannDecember 6, 2023Stratford CaldecottComment

Bethlehem and the Great Cities

The experience of Bethlehem suggests “ancestral dawns and mystical abysses and the end of chaos and the creation of light.”

Gilbert Keith ChestertonDecember 4, 2023ChestertonComment

Charlotte OstermannNovember 27, 2023TolkienComment

Morphogenetics – A Little Way

Tiny bits become big changes…

CultureCharlotte OstermannNovember 15, 2023Christopher Alexander, freedomComment

Tonight at 6: The Abolition of Man

Please come to the discussion of C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man.

Charlotte OstermannNovember 13, 2023Comment

The Lost Railway Station

“…my fancy flies to an English railway station where I once dreamed a dream.”

Gilbert Keith ChestertonNovember 6, 2023ChestertonComment

Charlotte OstermannOctober 25, 2023ChestertonComment

On Fragments

“Every one of the main human interests was in old times made a part of the creed. Every one of those human interests is now put apart by itself, as if it were a monomania like collecting stamps.”

Gilbert Keith ChestertonOctober 23, 2023ChestertonComment

Wonder & Joy

Come to the school tonight for a rich discussion of the encyclical Caritas in Veritate. You needn’t read ahead! A digest will be given so we can enjoy sharing our thoughts about this provocative work from Pope Benedict XVI.

Come to the school tonight to discuss Fr. Luigi Giussani’s The Journey to Truth is an Experience. No need to read (or even to have) the book!

6-8 p.m.

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