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- After a lengthy hiatus, Lion and Ox engage in a lazy summer dialogue in which they compare certain aspects of their own mode of eating to the habits of the philosopher.
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Easter Feasting!
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Tagged asparagus, beauty, Easter, Ribeye, risotto
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Resurrexit! Easter Brunch 2022
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Tagged beauty, Easter Brunch, Feasting
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Today, Sing “Ubi Caritas!”
Originally posted on Classical Catholic Education:
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 amor. Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum…
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Is Religious Music Suitable for Mass?
Obviously all religious music will occupy itself with words appropriated from scripture or at least in some way grounded in scripture. Whether using the words of a psalm, or composed as a sort of ‘poetic meditation’ on this or that … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Arts, Sacred Music, The Mass
Tagged cat stevens, Gregorian Chant, Here I am Lord, Pavarotti, Pope St. Pius X, Sacred Music, tra le sollecitudine
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At Christmas, Families are the Guardians of Tradition.
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. No matter where our earthly home is, it is our Catholic traditions that remain permanent … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, breakfast, Christmas, Feasts, Heraclitus, Herodotus
Tagged Baby Jesus Buns, Christmas Traditions, Egg Strata, Heraclitus
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Make Your House Fair as You are Able!
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 the warm hospitable stables of our own hearts! We have been doing our … Continue reading
Posted in Advent, Christmas, classical education, Custom, education, Fine Arts, Heraclitus, Liberal Arts, liberal education
Tagged Advent, Heraclitus, liberal education, Make your house fair, Stable
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Why Has Education Collapsed?
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 movement-I have certainly met many whom I feel fortunate to call friends, who care deeply … Continue reading
After a lengthy hiatus, Lion and Ox engage in a lazy summer dialogue in which they compare certain aspects of their own mode of eating to the habits of the philosopher.
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 that ruminating and digesting. Frankly, I pity you, you carnivores that only … Continue reading
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Tagged dialogue, philosophy, Plato, plato's republic, Platonic Dialogues, puns, rumination, summer break, Thales
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Celebrating Catholic Classical Education with Cardinal Burke
I hope some of you might be able to participate in our annual school Gala by clicking on the live stream link below. The Lyceum Spring Gala Saturday, April 17, 2021 with guest of honor Cardinal Raymond Burke “Catholic Education, … Continue reading
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