Classical Catholic Education

6 min read 2021-12-30 04:32:17

Christmas Morning 2021

Nothing makes us aware more poignantly that our permanent home is not on this earth than the Catholic traditions that surround our major feast days.

4 min read 2021-12-24 02:47:42

What is Christmas about? What is Advent about except to prepare for and celebrate the arrival of Wisdom Himself, in the form of a little baby, into

1 min read 2021-07-11 11:54:13

Over the course of my thirty years as an unwitting member of a loosely knit community that might even amount to a ‘movement’-an education reform

1 min read 2021-06-30 04:34:45

Ox: Ah, summer once again Lion! A time to stand around for hours idly, yet contentedly chewing the cud in the warm summer sunshine. Think of it! All

3 min read 2021-04-05 06:08:32

My chair (the one that I grew up seeing my wife’s father sitting in at every major celebration!) looks ready to celebrate Easter brunch., even if

3 min read 2021-04-01 18:52:12

Today, Holy Thursday, is the day for singing the ancient chant Ubi Caritas! UBI caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.Congregavit nos in unum Christi

3 min read 2020-11-02 09:03:18

I am certainly not the first one to make note of the fact that the Sequence, Dies Irae, for All Souls Day appears to have made a profound and far

9 min read 2020-10-27 01:09:29

In this last Sunday’s Gospel we hear, You shall love the Lord, your God,with all your heart,with all your soul,and with all your mind. Now I think

5 min read 2020-08-22 10:25:22

No matter what ails the nation, turmoil in the inner city, conflagrations, and riots, anxiety over the upcoming election, fears rational and

6 min read 2020-07-09 03:25:29

The bad news is that the Civil War did not put an end to slavery. Sure, the Civil War did end the apparent and visible slavery that made legal the

6 min read 2020-06-16 23:57:20

I don’t have any strong objection to men dressing according to the fashions of the 12th or 13th century if they happen to live in the 12th or 13th

2 min read 2020-05-26 10:17:13

I miss the human face…don’t you? Isn’t it interesting how that is? Did you think you would ever miss the human face? Who would ever have

5 min read 2020-05-25 10:13:51

Has there ever been an epoch in human history in which greater service, more profound obeisance, deeper devotion has been paid to the very end and

3 min read 2020-05-14 03:27:22

Well, this certainly has been an exciting experiment! But to be perfectly honest, as they say, I have seen enough. Whereas Frank Capra’s George

6 min read 2020-04-20 23:21:01

Let’s not think poorly of the scientists and epidemiological statisticians for scaring the hell out of the American public by their prediction of a