This is a modified version of a talk that I gave at Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Victory in Centennial, CO, on March 6, 2025. In August of 1944, American forces were fighting Nazi soldiers at Chartres, a small French village about sixty miles outside of Paris. You may recognize that name, and […]
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Every private, Christian school in America has an underpaid cohort of young, unmarried and childless teachers who are called on to do all kinds of things that their older colleagues who are married with children are either unable or unwilling to do. I was once one of those teachers. But there’s another kind of teacher
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[The] faculty of attention…directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer. Simone Weil A friend recently recommended Simon Weil’s “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God.” In it, the twentieth century French philosopher famously argues that attention and prayer are nearly synonymous. Certainly, it is
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