Catholic, husband, father | Headmaster https://teapawt.net/t.co/uW3O6zorSk | Classical Educator | Composer & Lyricist
Greenville, SC
Joined February 2011
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A blessing to lead OLR.school!
In 2015, Our Lady of the Rosary Parish and School in Greenville, South Carolina, was down to just 130 students, with enrollment continuing to decline. The parish brought in Tommy Curtain, (a Notre Dame-trained lawyer and accomplished pianist) to become the new head of school.
Ten years later, Our Lady of the Rosary is widely regarded as a national flagship Catholic school. I have met families who moved across the country just to enroll their children here. Daily Mass, classical education, and serious spiritual formation are all happening here.
One of the things I love most about it is that it is so radically simple. For centuries in the West, the local parish educated the next generation. Our Lady of the Rosary has simply returned to that model, and in doing so has revitalized both the parish and the school.
The more vibrant the school becomes, the more vibrant the parish becomes. And the more vibrant the parish becomes, the more vibrant the school becomes. It is beautiful, and it is the way God intended it.
Breaking:
White House announces plans to revise calendar to 13 months. Beginning 2027, the current 12 months will each be limited to only 28 days. The remaining 29 days of the year will comprise a new month, Trumpuary, in honor of the greatest president in US history. Smart!
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Feel the sadness: an open letter to Fr. Dowd ndsmcobserver.com/article/20…
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Promising new account just dropped
Cardinal Sarah of Guinea and Cardinal Burke of the US arriving at the Vatican to elect a new Pope
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Recent OLR Greenville grad, Abby Strelow, with her first NCR piece. And good news about Notre Dame as well! ncregister.com/features/notr…
New Easter morning tradition…
Scrolling X for the new batch of “officially Catholic” posts.
Can’t get enough!
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My son’s undefeated soccer team will have to forfeit their game tomorrow afternoon. Turns out a bunch of the boys have altar server training for the Easter Vigil, and now they can’t field a team.
Let’s go!
In the last month I saw one of these in person and followed the other online. It was a good month.
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Question:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Prescient book, very on point, but with suggestive and disturbing sexual themes.
Yes or no for seniors in a Catholic classical school?
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Let’s go, OLR!
I’m excited to share with you all that I will be giving the commencement for Our Lady of the Rosary School in Greenville, South Carolina. Harvard, you will have to ask earlier next year 😉.
This is incredible and providential for me for many reasons. The only living Catholic priest to ever be featured on the CLT is the parish priest at the school, Fr. Dwight Longenecker. What he has done for his parish and school is being looked at as a model across the country. He built a beautiful new church and he flipped the school to a classical model. Enrollment has more than doubled and there is now a waiting list for most grades. Father Longenecker understands that young Catholic families do not want beige Catholicism, they want the genuine article.
Love the plug from @JeremyTate41 !
He’s doing awesome work with the Classic Learning Test (CLT). My school OLR Greenville is proud to offer it to grades 3-12.
I was honored to contribute the Greenville entry for this article. Thanks @EricRSammons!
Today at @CrisisMag we published a guide of 10 of the best cities to raise a Catholic family. I see this topic often come up on social media, so we decided to create a little guide for those considering a move.
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She will do much good for the Lord. The greatest acts of faith are the most impossible for world to understand.
This happened today in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana. What you see here is a woman (lying prostrate) being consecrated as a virgin, living in the world. She will not be a nun. She will simply live among us as celibate. She has given up marriage, sex and children for Jesus Christ. Believe it or not, this is becoming more common these days. The intense perversity of our modern world, contrasted to the intense purity of Jesus Christ, is drawing more men and women to a life of celibacy.
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This is well put.
Two groups of parents protesting left-wing indoctrination of their children in deep blue jurisdictions. One predominantly Muslim, one predominantly Christian. They don’t demand public schools teach their religion, they only demand the right to raise their kids without their values being directly undermined in schools they pay taxes for.
Pushing gender ideology in public schools is a blatant violation of religious liberty. Think of it this way:
The assertion that a child can be “born in the wrong body” isn’t empirical reality, it is a pseudo-religious belief of the progressive alphabet cult. It also contradicts the teachings of actual religions. It violates parents’ rights to raise their children in their faith tradition.
Public schools must respect religious freedom and serve their communities, not teach progressive state “religion” nor inject ideology that is antithetical to the values of the communities they serve.
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