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Regina Luminis Academy
Regina Luminis Academy is a private, independent school founded, with the help of God’s grace, to assist parents in the education and formation of their children by providing a classical liberal arts education in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church and faithful to the Magisterium.
It is the mission of the Academy to promote and nurture the spiritual, intellectual, and physical growth and talents of its students through the time-tested classical liberal arts course of study. Students study and learn in a wholesome and rigorous environment. The Catholic faculty integrates the Magisterial teaching and Tradition of the Catholic Church throughout the curriculum.
In partnership with their families, students are taught to be effective Catholic citizens and leaders. They are taught to know, love and serve God and neighbor, aware of their ultimate purpose in life—eternal happiness with God in Heaven.
Students who are not Catholic may be admitted to the school with the explicit understanding that all students must participate in all classes and activities in the school. The entire curriculum is permeated with Catholic philosophy. Prayer and daily Catholic devotion are an integral part of the school’s day.
EAST FALLOWFIELD
St. Philomena Academy
The cause of religious education is very dear to St. Philomena. At the present time when there is so much controversy over school questions, St. Philomena ought to be involved earnestly and assiduously by Catholic parents, teachers, and children, that their rights may be safeguarded, that schools may continue to function without hindrance and embarrassment from anti-religious agencies, and that pupils may receive their just allotment of public benefits.
In countless instances in times of persecution in other countries, the saint has come to the rescue and saved schools from the relentless attacks of anti-clerical officials whose aim was to destroy religious influences. Principals do well to place their schools under her protection and burn a votive light before her image to ask her assistance. (St. Philomena, the Wonder Worker, pages 25-26)
Saint Joseph's House is to advance the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Church, by applying the teachings of Pope John Paul II's encyclical, The Gospel of Life, to care for human life from conception to natural death, and responding to Pope John Paull II's call for a "New Evangelization," to hasten the coming of the "Culture of Life" and "Civilization of Love". St. Joseph's House will apply "Gospel of Life" teachings and foster a "Culture of Life" through the service of charity to, including sanctuary and hospice for, the weak and defenseless of our society, particularly widows and orphans, children and families in crisis situations. The services included catechesis (religious instruction), food, clothing and shelter, as well as counseling, schooling, tuturing and educational resources.
The patron saints of St. Joseph's House are St. Joseph (foster father of Our Lord), St. Elizabeth Ann Seton ("Mother Seton"), St. John Neuman, St. John Bosco and Blessed Bartolo Longo. These saints gave their lives in the service of charity to take care of the needs of the poor and lowly, especially children. As did Mother Seton and John Bosco, St. Joseph's House seeks to form a Catholic community, loyal to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, that serves the needs of families, widows and orphans, and the needy.
WYNDMOOR
Regina Coeli Academy
 It is the Mission of Regina Coeli Academy to create a unique, multi-age environment in which learning and practicing the truths of the Catholic faith are central to the development of each child. While providing for the primacy of faith development, the school promotes the intellectual growth of its students through its classical liberal arts program. In partnership with their families, students are challenged in a wholesome and academic environment preparing them to be effective citizens of this country and committed Catholic Christians in the world community of the third millennium.
The Declaration on Christian Education, Gravissimum Educationis, of the Second Vatican Council teaches that parents are the primary educators of their children. Pope John Paul II's reiterates this sentiment in his Apostolic Exhortation on the family, Familiaris Consortio, in which he states that "the right and duty of parents to give education is essential...it is original and primary with regard to the educational role of others...it is irreplaceable and inalienable and therefore incapable of being entirely delegated to others or usurped by others." Recognizing these truths, Regina Coeli Academy aims to assist parents in the formation and education of their children. It does so by providing an atmosphere that fosters Christian spiritual, intellectual, moral and physical formation.
 In order to live a life “for the greater glory of God,” man is called by Christ to go forth into the world and to become "the saving leaven of the human family" (Declaration on Christian Education). Called by God to bring peace, justice and truth into the society in which he lives, thus fashioning a world more in tune with the dignity of the human person, the Christian learner must be educated in excellence. The study of that which is excellent in human attainments will bear witness to truth, and thus to God. Authentic classical education, or liberal education, informs students with the most excellent intellectual accomplishments in the order of nature - the liberal arts, sciences, and fine arts - and thus disposes them to the crowning intellectual accomplishments of those steeped in grace, sacred doctrine.
In keeping with the theology and philosophy that is the intellectual heritage of every Christian, Regina Coeli Academy seeks to carry on the living tradition of Catholic classical education. Grounded in the seven liberal arts of the Trivium and Quadrivium, the Academy gives students the tools to live a full life, gaining knowledge on their own. These tools include the ability to reason from premise to conclusion, to distinguish, to articulate and to persuade. These educational methods, which have produced outstanding men and women who have fashioned our world in the first and second Christian millennia, will continue to form young people who are capable of excellence and leadership in all arenas of life, fully armed to meet the challenges of the third millennium.
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