MR. TAIT JENSEN, M.ED.
Principal
A LETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL
On what we are, and
what we are not.
Our school exists because there is a kind of education the modern age has nearly forgotten how to give: an education ordered to the formation of the whole human person — intellect, will, and affection — through the patient study of what is true, the practice of what is good, and the love of what is beautiful.
We are not innovating. We are not reimagining. We are recovering. The classical tradition is older than any of us, and we are its servants, not its proprietors. Our task is to hand on what has been given.
This is, frankly, a demanding way to educate a child. It asks much of teachers, of parents, and most of all of the students. We have found that children rise to such demands when the adults around them believe the work is serious. Children know when they are being condescended to. They also know when they are not.
In Christ,
Mr. Tait Jensen, M.Ed.
Mr. Tait Jensen, M.Ed.
OUR PATRON
Saint Charles Borromeo
1538 — 1584 · Archbishop of Milan
Born to nobility, ordained archbishop at twenty-five, Charles Borromeo was the architect of the reforms of the Council of Trent in his diocese. He founded seminaries, wrote a catechism, fed the city through plague, and refused to leave Milan during the years it would have been politic to do so.
His family arms bore three interlocked rings — the figure we have taken as our own mark, and which the Christian tradition has long read as a sign of the Trinity: three Persons, one God.
He is the patron of catechists, of seminaries, of bishops, and of all who labor at the slow work of teaching the Faith. The school could have no better intercessor.
"Souls are won on one's knees."
— ST. CHARLES BORROMEO
