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A solar eclipse only occurs during a new moon. However, we know that the Crucifixion occurred during a full moon. Then, how are we to reconcile St. Luke's account of the eclipse that occurred during the Crucifixion?

What does the correct worship of God have to do with the liberal arts of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy?

At the beginning of the year, one of our toddlers learned the phrase, “Where’d it go?” — primarily in reference to a lost ball or toy. Now, here at the end of the school year, we may find ourselves asking, “Where’d it go?” when thinking about the year that has passed.

The responsibility of overseeing an athletic program was daunting; I quickly learned that being an athletic director is not just about managing budgets and scheduling games. It’s about nurturing a culture of excellence on and off the field, fostering student-athlete growth, and building strong relationships within our school and community.

We invested our minds, bodies, and souls into each of these meaningful moments. Yet, each day, I would come back to the classroom and the physical markings would eventually be erased. What the students and I talked about was in the past physically, but, hopefully, in us eternally. 

I recently had the opportunity to help chaperone TSCS’s first 8th grade retreat. By slowing down and being still, this retreat gave our students (and their teachers) the gift of time. And I realized that was in keeping with the very essence and structure of The Saint Constantine School. 

I was a child once, captivated by the colors of the sky and the beetles in the sandpit. Overtime, life would show me that it held some dark patches. I would fall into the deception that the brightness I once believed in maybe was not so bright after all.  

“Isn’t Latin a dead language?” “Why do I have to learn Greek?”

“Because I said so.” “No more questions.” “We are moving on.”

A popular phrase I hear in response from students when asked if they would consider playing a certain sport is, “I don’t know. I’m not any good.”

So, how do I help students move past the barriers they set for themselves in their own mind?

Students here play. They play hard and often, usually kindly and sometimes carelessly. They play in ways that surprise me and teach me about what free play is and what it is not.