“Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure. He alone can give full meaning to life, he alone is the center of history. Live by him! With Mary! With your Saints!” - Pope St. John Paul II
Reflection on Catholic Education
The purpose of an authentic Catholic Education is to prepare its pupils to embark on the “wonderful adventure” to which St. John Paul the Great refers. Though it naturally produces free-thinking, truth seeking, moral, passionate and productive members of society, the primary aim of Catholic education is to partner with families in forming and equipping future saints for the adventure for which they were created. A Catholic education calls the courageous, points the inquisitive to the truth for which they yearn, identifies and develops God-given gifts, and instructs along the pathways of beauty, wonder, and awe. Most of all, an authentic Catholic education encourages students to seek with their whole hearts the very face of The Christ who loves them into being and beckons them to follow the Eternal Way of truth and life - a most wonderful adventure, indeed.
For the past eleven years, Mr. Wesley Becklo has worked professionally as a teacher, evangelist, storyteller and youth minister in various Catholic parishes and schools across New Hampshire and on Cape Cod. After earning a BA in Theatre at St. Michael's College, Mr. Becklo lived for six years in New York City pursuing acting, playwriting, and directing while studying with the legendary acting coach, Mr. Robert X. Modica in midtown Manhattan. It was during that time an abiding passion for the Catholic faith was rekindled in him, and inspired by the call of the New Evangelization, he vigorously delved into the Catholic intellectual tradition, ultimately sending him on the adventure which has led him to Mount Royal Academy. Mr. Becklo currently enjoys reading great books, watching excellent films, writing fiction, poetry, and plays, swimming in lakes where he often spends hours pretending to be either a dolphin, manatee, or shark (depending on mood), playing make-believe with his daughter, Evangeline, and losing nearly every night in Jeopardy! to his brilliant and beautiful wife, Marie. His family will be residing in Alexandria, NH and are looking forward to finding their new parish home in the near future.