What’s a nice grandma like me doing with a book on revolutionary tactics??
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Charlotte’s Web really is not a modern story at all, and it has much more in common with the ancient myths, scriptures, and fairy tales. In short, the story is really not about lovable farmyard talking animals. Instead, it is about the ancient pattern of how the feminine saves ‘from above’.
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See you at the school tonight for a discussion of JPII’s thoughts on the human person, conveyed by the saint’s long-time friend Stanislaw Grygiel. It is not necessary to have, or to read the book!
6-8 p.m.
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“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.”
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“…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.”
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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.
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A catechetical look at a famous work of art.
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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.”
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C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece: Till We Have Faces
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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.
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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.
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“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?”
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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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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!
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