I am Mark Langley. In case you didn't notice, I am all about liberal education.
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Recent Posts
- In the Gospel, Punctuation Makes All the Difference.
- Other Statues to Pull Down
- How Do You Restore Sacred Music? A Diocesan Directive Would Help.
- 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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Category Archives: ad libitum
Improvident but Cheerful: A Defense of the Unplanned Family
When Benjamin Bunny grew up he married his cousin Flopsy. They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful…as there was not always quite enough to eat,- Benjamin used to borrow cabbages from Flopsy’s brother, Peter Rabbit, … Continue reading →
Posted in ad libitum, beauty, Solon, Uncategorized
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Tagged church closings, family planning, Marriage, Solon
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Summer Somnolence
My inner sense tells me that it might be a good time to start thinking again. You see, the end of July is precisely the heart of the season when the mind of the academic, the mind of a teacher, and the … Continue reading →
Posted in ad libitum, education, Homer, summer vacation, Uncategorized
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Tagged Adam, boring lectures, mandatory education, summer vacation
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The Close of Another Year: A Dialogue
Lion: You seem a little down lately, Ox. What’s the matter? Ox: Do I? I guess I am a little dispirited. I hope it’s not obvious to everyone. Lion: Well, you have been lying around in the grass for the last several days … Continue reading →
Posted in ad libitum, classical education, summer vacation
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Tagged Adirondack Chair, Break, summer vacation
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Inagua Sharpie Finished!
Imagine my pleasure to be featured on Jeff Spira’s blog! Thanks Jeff for all your help. Thanks for the design and the continual support you gave answering dozens of questions along the way. All this for about 75 bucks! I … Continue reading →
Posted in ad libitum, beauty, liberal education works
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Tagged Boat building, INagua Sharpie, Jeff Spira, Sailing
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Rebuilding LionandOx
The lionandox has been rather inactive for the past month. One day the site just appeared to have become unusable. So we thought we would take advantage of that minor catastrophe to rebuild the whole site over here at http://www.lionandox.com. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Classical Education, lionandox, mark langley
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The Lyceum Schola Cantorum On The March!
The Lyceum just returned from its annual pilgrimage to Washington D.C. to join with more than 500,000 other zealous people braving single digits to peacefully protest the Nation’s continued tolerance of abortion. Tuesday January 21, 4:30 AM students and faculty board … Continue reading →
Posted in ad libitum, beauty, Music, Sacred Music, The Mass
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Tagged brut, capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Liturgy, March for Life, Paulist institute, Sacred Music, Washington DC
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Homer Sightings
Souvlaki! We all know that Liberal education is what enables a person to become wise to some extent. Without pursuing it to the best of our abilities, without becoming acquainted with the tradition of the West, without receiving and being informed by the intellectual … Continue reading →
Posted in ad libitum, Dinner, Homer, Homer Sightings, Liberal Arts
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Tagged Homer, Iliad, Odyssesy, Robert M Hutchins, souvlaki, The Great Conversation
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Does Nature Act For A Purpose?
The title of this post is “Does Nature Act For A Purpose?” And it is a post that I have been wanting to post for some weeks now, mainly because there are some ideas in my head that I have … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotle, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Nature acts for an end, Shelley, The Breakers
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Who Is The Wisest Person In The World?
I think I know who the wisest living person is in the world and as luck would have it, I happen to know him personally. (hint: besides Our Lord) But I hesitate to tell you this and am even hesitant … Continue reading →
The Olive Wreath
When Xerxes discovered that the Greeks were celebrating the Olympic Festival the first day after the battle of Thermopylae he asked a Greek deserter “for what do the Greek athletes contend?” When told that they were not competing for money … Continue reading →
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Tagged atheist, civilization, olive wreath, olympics, Xerxes
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