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Well, it’s happened again.  I can’t say it surprises me anymore, but it definitely brings me great delight when I see it.

The students head off into the summer at the beginning of June and when they return in September, they are changed.  They have matured and “grown in stature before God and man.”

The young girl who struggled with a temper has returned with a sweet spirit and a beautiful smile for her teachers and her classmates.

A young man with a tendency to make questionable decisions has come back to school with a new determination to do the right thing.

A student who struggled with impu...

The laughably spooky tale of The Canterville Ghost is a perfect family comedy to liven up the fall season!  Based on the classic story by Oscar Wilde, Tim Kelly’s adaptation is a silly take on the classic haunted English manor house. Presented by Mount Royal Academy Knight’s Theater and the Newport Opera House, the production runs at the Newport Opera House on Saturday, November 9 at 7 PM and Sunday, November 10 at 2 PM.

Canterville Hall, home to an old English family has been sold by Lady Canterville (Juliana Yost) to Horace (Liam Swegart) and Lucy (Madeleine Gawlick) Otis, their two daughte...

White Crucifixion, 1938. Chagall, Marc.

Friday, Week I. 

Wednesday, Week II. 

Monday, Week III. 

Friday, Week III. 

Students come to know my personal favorite scripture readings from lauds as we work our way through the psalter. The citations above are likely unintelligible to millions of people. But to those of us here at Seven Hearths Lane, when we start our day participating in the universal prayer of the Church, these citations become a common memory. Eventually we come to know what reading is coming, and then we connect that in some way to the life we have together. 

For as long as I hav...

God of the ages—
Before your eyes all empires rise and fall, yet you are changeless.
Be near us in this age of uncertainty and in these moments of remembrance. Uphold those who work and watch and wait and weep and love. By your Holy Spirit give rise within us a broad sympathy for all the peoples of your earth. Strengthen us to comfort those who mourn and establish your peace in big and small ways.
Bless the people and leaders of our nation and all nations so that warfare, violence and oppression may become only a historic memory.
We pray in the name of the Prince of Peace. Amen. (September...

We all know the stage where children persistently ask the “why” question. We had our Joey doing that this summer with high frequency, and being home more brought that into focus for me. It kept me on my toes, as I was forced to question why I even communicated the way I was at the time. 

The “why” is a big deal. We should not disregard these primitive intuitions of the typical three or four year old child. It is the start of wonder, a distinguishing capacity of the human person. And we should all wonder what this is for, with the same raw childlike seeking, devoid of that skepticism which com...

The cultivation of virtue in pursuit of the highest ideals of human living can be traced all the way back to the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Prior to the coming of Christ, perhaps the best articulation of virtue was offered by Aristotle. He taught that the attainment of happiness consists in virtuous living and contemplation of truth. In order to contemplate truth, the soul must have command over all rational and emotional powers. The cultivation of virtue is the means to that end.

Christianity recognized the natural goods discovered in the great thinkers of the ancient world and ...

Mount Royal Academy is pleased to announce academic honors for the 4th Quarter of the 2023-2024 school year. 

(Summa Cum Laude: 3.9-4.00, Magna Cum Laude: 3.7-3.89, Cum Laude: 3.5-3.69)

Grade 6

Summa Cum Laude: Angela Moorehouse 

Magna Cum Laude: Liliana Chimienti, Joseph Flaig, Maria Gik, Evangeline Nadeau

Cum Laude: David Breisch, August Graham-Snyder

Grade 7

Summa Cum Laude: Haley Elkind, Emma LeBlanc, Lucy Treece, Jubilee Tremblay, Juliana Yost

Grade 8

Summa Cum Laude: Anela Jenkins, Kathryn McLaughlin

Magna Cum Laude: Kolbe Dowsett, Charles Lee, Liam Swegart

Cum Laude: Isab...

Welcome Address
Walker Earle 24'

Good morning and welcome to Mount Royal Academy’s Class of 2024 graduation. Thank you Father Michael, Mr. Tremblay, faculty, family, fellow students and friends for joining us as we celebrate our achievements and prepare to step into this next chapter of our lives. 

We are one of the smaller graduating classes in Mount Royal’s history. The Class of 2024 was as large as 28 students during elementary school and roughly 18 by our sophomore year. After our sophomore year, several students parted ways, and left the eight of us that stand before you today - the ...

If I were to describe the month of May in a single word it would be ‘moving’, and there are quite naturally several converging experiences occurring at this very moment which incite this ‘moving’ sentiment. 

And what I mean by ‘moving’ is multifaceted: the soul is moved by culminating experiences marking both the end and beginning of a new phase in life; the soul is moved by the relationships which marked our daily existence together for a substantial period of time, yet no longer the same; the soul is moved by seeing God’s children grapple with their existence and then share an original resp...

Mr. Bean shares another installment of his classroom lectures series published on Bethlehem Society.

Our technology policy is very important to us here at Mount Royal Academy. We restrict the use of cell phones on our campus as a service to the students themselves. We want to give them the gifts of silence, beauty, and authentic social interaction. Modern technology is a powerful tool that can be used for good, but we need to be able to put it away for a time if we are going to pursue these other ends. 

Today I’d like to give you a window into the classroom at Mount Royal Academy. I recently ...