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St. Iakovos of Evia By: Jude Namee Saints come from many backgrounds. Sanctity is not reserved for the children of kings or those with easy backgrounds. Holiness is the one life aspiration open to all. Good parenting does matter, however. The knowledge that parenting can be a pathway to sanctify should encourage, not discourage us.…
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St. Cleopa of Sihastria By: Jude Namee Saints come from many backgrounds. Sanctity is not reserved for the children of kings or those with easy backgrounds. Holiness is the one life aspiration open to all. Good parenting does matter, however. The knowledge that parenting can be a pathway to sanctify should encourage, not discourage us.…
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By: Jude Namee Introduction to our New Series: The Parents of Saints Saints come from many backgrounds. Sanctity is not reserved for the children of kings or those with easy backgrounds. Holiness is the one life aspiration open to all. Good parenting does matter, however. The knowledge that parenting can be a pathway to sanctify…
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The Reality Deniers Reality was not fooled and the Soviets fell. Grifters and liars existed, of course, battening on the system in 1988, but it was the sincere, credentialed types, the earnest who had worked their way up through the system and still believed that were most pitiable and harmful. They gave the dead, not…
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The just live by faith. This is the Orthodox, classical, Christian school: faithful to what she believes so that not even a threat of death can make her lie about reality, yet loving to even our intellectual enemies. We know our failings, so our schools humble ourselves to theological wisdom, scientific truths, and to the…
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Theological education was less a product of the theological schools and more in the monastic communities. By 425 Theodosius II had founded the “University” of Constantinople. There was work for the Emperor and for the church in terms of education and spiritual formation. The soul of the student was formed in the school and in the liturgy…
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Unless your mother was the Mother of God, then she will have had her faults. My Mom, grand lady that she is, may also have some faults, but if so piety suggests I not share them here. Why would I? The Church does not teach that she is without sin. Why would I state the…
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*note, this article was originally published in May of 2020 at patheos.com On this the fifth day of the fifth month in the year 2020, TheSaint Constantine Strategy will turn five. After four high school graduations, this spring marks the first graduating college class to go through the program. We make a classical higher education available to everyone who can do…
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“This seems bad, but have you read my think piece on the topic?” The credentialed pass the ship as safe, after all, the company has made it safer than the rules say they must, and entire papers can be written on the progress shown in this largest movable object ever built by mankind. “Humanity has…
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Some classical educators just now claim they are the answer to what ails us, when they are part of the reason we are sick. World War I is one hundred years ago. At the moment the world is reflecting on what caused that horror, classical education is making a come back. Those of us who are…