“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man:
to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

Our Mission: Considering the Ends of Education

To provide an authentically Catholic, classical, and scholastic education to encourages the students through the liberal arts to behold, wonder, and contemplate what is BEST in our CULTURE, that which is BEAUTIFUL, GOOD, and TRUE, to cultivate wisdom and virtue through the liberal arts (skills for the free man) and sciences (knowledge), so as to draw out (educate) what is BEST in our students, and to allow them to fulfill their purpose.

By practicing the liberal arts (skills of the free man), and learning the sciences (knowledge & traditions), and discussing the great ideas of Western civilization informed by the Catholic faith through…

• Good/Great Books with discussions to learn ethics

• Core Integrated Subjects: Catechism, History, Science, and Civics

• Living Faith practices: liturgical calendar and having all subjects subordinate to Truth

• Memory practice: Latin, grammar, timeline, and geography

• Fine Arts Appreciation & Application: Music, Visual Arts

• Science Discovery: exploring the splendor of order in God’s creation

• Oral Presentations/Rhetoric Skills: elocution, listening, speaking

• Language Arts – composition, grammar, diagramming, copy work, spelling, and penmanship

• Philosophical discussions & Formal Logic to learn right reason 

…students develop a taste and affection for what is true, good, and beautiful, and form a habit of mind, that of being inquisitive, perceptive, ordered, and contemplative, leading to moral and intellectual virtue, right reason applied to right action learning God’s will and following Him.

Philippians 4:6-9
"Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be with you." 

-St. Paul

The Ends of Education


Our Goals for Education
“But where shall wisdom be found?  And where is the place of understanding? …And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’” - Job 28:12-28

1. TO KNOW GOD – We teach students that subjects are fingers pointing to the Truth.  Through divine revelation and our natural reason (fides et ratio), we lead students to perceive the Truth that is God.

2. TO LOVE GOD – Upon perceiving this Truth, students come to a greater appreciation of God and His universe, His wisdom, and His love for man, and so grow in love for Him.

3. TO SERVE GOD – Humbled before God, students learn to serve Him with dignity, honor, integrity, and nobility.

“The glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man is the vision of God.  If the revelation of God through creation already brings life to all living beings on the earth, how much more will the manifestation of the Father by the Word bring life to those who see God?” - St. Irenaeus (Adversus Haereses IV, 20, 7)

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