Charlotte OstermannMarch 27, 2024Josef PieperComment

Love Brings Us to Life

Charlotte OstermannMarch 26, 2024Comment

On Holidays

“It is the essence of a holiday that it must be a revolution, and it is the essence of a revolution that it must revolve.”

Gilbert Keith ChestertonMarch 25, 2024ChestertonComment

Marriage Prep...with Dracula?

“…the two married persons—are themselves the sacrament, the outward sign of inward grace, a manifestation of Christ’s love for His bride, the Church. Do Jonathan and Mina live up to this in Dracula? Is this what Bram Stoker was going for? I’m not sure, but it does seem to me that the turning point in the story is Jonathan and Mina’s marriage.”

Community Life, Education, Family, Intellectual LifeNicki JohnstonMarch 13, 2024Comment

Tonight: There Was Another Inkling???

Owen Barfield is the lesser known of the Inklings - a group of friends that included C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Join us tonight for a discussion of his book Saving the Appearances - Barfield’s own favorite of all his books.

Community Life, Culture, Education, Intellectual LifeCharlotte OstermannMarch 11, 2024Comment

A Wedding Feast

A catechetical look at a famous work of art.

Education, CultureCharlotte OstermannMarch 6, 2024Giotto, artComment

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