Homeschooling

Veronica Moreno · August 22, 2020

Homeschool Snapshots: Take 2

A homeschooling mother offers a few verses that inspire her during the dark times of teaching, when cooperation is lacking and patience must grow. Hang them on your walls to remind you of God’s good graces.

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Veronica Moreno · June 27, 2020

Homeschool Snapshots: Take 1

Summer planning brings homeschooling mother to poetry by Robert Frost and St. Thomas Aquinas. “Poems are the food of faith.”

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“Advent Kyrie” • Plainsong w/ Organ

Those who so desire may now download a live recording of my choir—which consists of 100% volunteer singers—singing the “Advent Kyrie” (KYRIE XVII) last Sunday.

—Jeff Ostrowski

“Urbanite Hymns” • What are those?

Dr. Aaron James, who earned a double doctorate, has stated publicly that the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal does a wonderful job explaining—by means of gorgeous color plates—the difference between the “Pre-Urbanite” hymns and those which were modified by Pope Urban VIII (d. 1644). Dr. James calls the Brébeuf treatment of the urbanite reform “a model of clarity.”

—Jeff Ostrowski

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