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Amelia Caravan 25’, Senior Address

Thank you Father Michael for that beautiful prayer.

I’d like to welcome you all to the Class of 2025’s commencement ceremony.

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Amelia or if you knew me way back in the day, it was Elsa from frozen.

I know people say college is where you meet your lifelong friends but I’ve already met them, all because of Mount Royal. I know I’ll make more friends but none of those relationships will have a bond as strong as the one we have created over the years. We’ve experienced the highs and lows together. You all made such a huge im...

Nearly every conversation I have had with staff or parents in the past week has started with “I know you are really busy right now,” or “I know you have a lot on your plate.”  It is true that as the year “winds down” it speeds up like crazy!

The final weeks of school are filled with some very exciting events, along with some necessary, but not so exciting events. The CLT exams might fall in the “not exciting” camp if you ask the students, but if you were to ask the Academic Dean, she would say they are important!

Field trips are planned to take full advantage of the nicer we...

The senior class recently completed the capstone project of the curriculum here at Mount Royal Academy! 

The purpose of the senior thesis is to facilitate an experience whereby the students enter into a final reflection regarding the substance of what was learned during their time at Mount Royal Academy. A classical and liberal education intends to free the mind to know and love truth, goodness, and beauty. This is done by reading and considering those truths about human nature that will forever stand the test of time. The senior thesis will invite students to consider a voice from the...

We made it to May! A few minutes ago after lauds, our junior high and high school students were reminded to stay faithful until the end. Faithful to our duties. Faithful to our vocation. Faithful to the effort and growth of the last nine months. 

We are on the precipice of an exceptional moment for the Class of 2025. It is a once in a lifetime experience, and the transition into adulthood is ripe with existential challenges and opportunities.

I polled some teachers with the following question - What is the optimal disposition in exceptional moments? - and received these responses:

“Receptivit...

As I have mentioned elsewhere in this newsletter, the sixth grade class and I are studying the Bible Timeline and we have reached the Messianic Fulfillment era with the gospel of Luke.  Two great parables appear in Luke – the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son.  Both stories are ubiquitous, well-known parables, perhaps one could say they are even “worn out.” We have heard them so often, we become bored with them, inattentive to the details, and maybe even the lesson they provide. 

To avoid this spiritual lethargy, I have encouraged the students to try to read them with fresh eyes; a differen...

Mount Royal Academy has announced academic awards for the 3rd Quarter of the 2024-2025 school year. (Headmaster's List - Summa Cum Laude: 3.9-4.00, High Honor roll - Magna Cum Laude: 3.7-3.89, Honor Roll - Cum Laude: 3.5-3.69)

Grade 6

Headmaster’s list: Lilyanne Trow

High Honors: Tucker Cole, Mary Drake, Claire Towne

Grade 7

Headmaster’s list: Liliana Chimienti, Joseph Flaig, Evangeline Nadeau

High Honors: Teodora Miletto

Grade 8

Headmaster’s list: Haley Elkind, Madeleine Howerdel, Emma LeBlanc, Lily Moore, Jubilee Tremblay

High Honors: Lucy Treece

Grade 9

Headmaster’s list: Isabella Acevedo...

Patron Feast week was fantastic! Thank you to all of the parent volunteers who assisted at our St. Joseph’s luncheon. Thank you to Mrs. Sweet and the committee for creating a great sequence of days to honor our heavenly benefactors; we even had student representation on that committee and although they may not have drawn the preferred tag day theme out of the lottery, the goal of cultivating maximum engagement from all students was surely accomplished throughout the week. The classroom churches and stained glass windows to commemorate St. Andre Bessette were a great addition. Everyday when I ...

During February break I was blessed with a life-changing and life-affirming experience, as my family and I traveled to Florence, Italy to visit my daughter who is studying there.  Italy proved to be as wonderful as I had anticipated, in expected (food!) and unexpected ways.

Almost as soon as we arrived, we made our way to the Duomo (pictured above); the iconic symbol of Florence.  The Duomo, or the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, has towered over the Florence skyline for over 600 years and is a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture.  Actually, those last six words could be repeated for ...

“You are no longer a slave but a son!
And the fact that you are a son makes you an heir,
by God’s design.” - Galatians 4:7

Henceforth comes the random interior ramblings of a school leader on this day which marks the thirty ninth year of his existence…

Sometimes I ask myself what is actually going on in my head. In the spirit of goofy awkwardness, I will sometimes ask a student, “What do you think about when you are working at the pharmacy?” Part of me is genuinely curious what goes on in the adolescent mind. Part of me is asking myself what goes on inside my own head. 

Yesterday anot...

Mount Royal Academy has announced academic awards for the 2nd Quarter of the 2024-2025 school year. (Headmaster's List - Summa Cum Laude: 3.9-4.00, High Honor roll - Magna Cum Laude: 3.7-3.89, Honor Roll - Cum Laude: 3.5-3.69)

Grade 6

Headmaster’s list: Tucker Cole, Lilyanne Trow

High Honors: Mary Drake, Miley Rondeau, Claire Towne

Grade 7

Headmaster’s list: Liliana Chimienti

High Honors: Joseph Flaig, Teodora Miletto, Evangeline Nadeau

Honors: Claudia Gannon

Grade 8

Headmaster’s list: Haley Elkind, Madeleine Howerdel, Emma LeBlanc, Lucy Treece, Jubilee Tremblay

High Honors: Lily Moore

Grade...