I am Mark Langley. In case you didn't notice, I am all about liberal education.
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- Other Statues to Pull Down
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- Why Does Christ Say His Yoke Is Easy?
- Three Reasons Why Catholic Classical Education is a Tough Sell
- How to Choose the Right Catholic High School for Your Children
- Newsflash: Just Because You Know What Virtue is Does Not Mean You are Virtuous.
- Do Your Children Know the Ten Commandments?
- Pagan Greeks Saw Easter Coming 500 Years Before It Happened!
- Feasting and Easter
- Did you know that our Lord’s death was a miracle?
- Father let this chalice pass from me
- Did Jesus Really Become Sorrowful?
- Is There Such a Thing as Catholic Music?
- Is the Four-Hymn Mass What the Church Really Wants?
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Author Archives: marklangley
In the Gospel, Punctuation Makes All the Difference.
But He turned, and said unto Peter, “Get thee behind Me, Satan: thou art an offence unto Me” Ouch! Talk about a slightly awkward moment! How did Peter recover from this “dressing down” from his boss? In today’s idiom I … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Catena Aurea
Tagged Get thee behind me, Saint Hillary, Scripture, Theresa of Avila
15 Comments
Other Statues to Pull Down
While we are busily engaged in the sanctimonious and largely symbolic act of pulling down statues of various confederate generals and others who promoted slavery directly or indirectly, I have a few suggestions for some other “statues” that need pulling … Continue reading
How Do You Restore Sacred Music? A Diocesan Directive Would Help.
I have no idea how his pastoral directive was received, but a belated bravo to Bishop John F. Doerfler of the Diocese of Marquette! Although given on January 26, 2016, I had only become aware of his pastoral directive on sacred music … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, Custom, Sacred Music, Sacrosanctum Consilium, The Mass
Tagged Bishop Doerfler, Parish Music, Sacred Music, Sing to the Lord
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Three Reasons Why Catholic Classical Education is a Tough Sell
Genuine Catholic education appears to be a product which doesn’t sell itself. That was a bit of a surprise for me when I was a freshly minted teacher. Naturally, I thought that an excellent school would flourish immediately. Word about the … Continue reading
How to Choose the Right Catholic High School for Your Children
I suppose twenty-eight years involved in small Catholic schools qualifies me as an experienced educator. Or at least it has provided me with plenty of experience in listening to parents and their children on the subject of “How to Choose … Continue reading
Posted in catholic education, classical education, education
Tagged Cassandra, Electives, Herodotus, High School, Xerxes
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Newsflash: Just Because You Know What Virtue is Does Not Mean You are Virtuous.
Now I know that there are many of you who are just naturally charitable. You easily empathize with the suffering of others and you have a spontaneous instinct to do anything you can to help others carry their crosses and … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Augustine, liberal education, Newman, Sacred Doctrine
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, John Henry Newman, knowledge and virtue, Mother Teresa
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Do Your Children Know the Ten Commandments?
Every couple of years I have the opportunity to teach a course on the Ten Commandments to High School seniors and juniors. I always try to start the course with a one-question pop quiz that looks like this: Write down the … Continue reading
Pagan Greeks Saw Easter Coming 500 Years Before It Happened!
Sorrow! Sorrow! Very few days pass but that we don’t hear of some new sorrow. A job is lost, a troubled marriage…a near relation passes away, serious illness falls, dashing promises and hopes…a calamity strikes affecting the national interest…a friend loses his … Continue reading
Posted in aeschylus, Carl Schmitt, classical education, Easter, Fine Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged aeschylus, Easter, Herodotus, Life, Newman, poetry
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Feasting and Easter
Resurrexit! There is nothing like the feeling attendant on the one who, although perhaps he has not scrupulously fulfilled every detail of his Lenten promises, approaches the Easter Morning brunch table and finds this… and this! and Egg Strada! And of … Continue reading
