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In this lesson, we study the prayers known as that “acts” of faith, hope, love and contrition. To complete the objectives of this lesson, complete the following tasks: Study the lesson for mastery. Work to memorize the answers to each question. Complete the lesson assessment. To view the entire text of Baltimore Catechism III, visit the Academy Library. Lesson Recite the questions and answers below until the answers are memorized. The Blessing Before Meals Q. 110. Say the Blessing before Meals.A. Bless us, O Lord! and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ … Continue

This afternoon a parent wrote a very common question, which I took some time to answer. I believe my response will be helpful to others. How would you recommend parents give children opportunities to relate to other children while being homeschooled; or alternatively, in your view, is this not a relevant concern? To be honest, I don’t understand why this question is asked of homeschooling families. A student sent to school is at school for 7 hours, 180 days of the year. So, out of 8,760 hours each year, the child is at school a maximum of 1,260 of them–that’s … Continue

To complete the objectives of this lesson, complete the following tasks: Lesson Ideas furnished by the imagination are no less your own than are those furnished by experience, and the same freedom in the choice of language prevails. They are, however, not apt to be so clear and definite. At the time of their occurrence they do not make so deep and vital an impression upon you. If not recorded as they occur, they can seldom be recalled in the original form. Even though you attempt to write them down as you think them, you can and do change and … Continue

To complete the objectives of this lesson, complete the following tasks: Study the lesson for mastery. Complete the lesson assessment. Lesson Not everything that the imagination may furnish is equally worth expressing. If you choose to write about something for which imagination supplies the ideas, you may create for yourself such ideas as you wish. Their order of occurrence and their time and place are not determined by outward events, but solely by the mind itself. The events are no longer real and actual, but may be changed and rearranged without limit. An imaginative series of events may conform closely … Continue

In this lesson, we begin our study of Stoic Philosophy. We begin with the study of Seneca’s essay “On Providence”. To complete the objectives of this lesson: Study the lesson for mastery. Complete the lesson assessment. Reading You have asked me, Lucilius, why, if a Providence rules the world, it still happens that many evils befall good men. This would be more fittingly answered in a coherent work designed to prove that a Providence does preside over the universe, and that God concerns himself with us. But since it is your wish that a part be severed from the whole, … Continue

To complete the objectives of this lesson, complete the following tasks: Study the lesson for mastery. Complete the lesson assessment. Lesson All ideas are based upon and spring from experience, and the imagination merely places them in new combinations. For the purpose of this book, however, it is convenient to distinguish those themes that relate real events as they actually occurred from those themes that relate events that did not happen. That body of writing which we call “literature” is largely composed of works of an imaginative character, and for this reason it has sometimes been carelessly assumed that in … Continue

The ancients, who under the leadership of Pythagoras first made science systematic, defined philosophy as the love of wisdom. Indeed the name itself means this, and before Pythagoras all who had knowledge were called “wise” indiscriminately- a carpenter, for example, a cobbler, a helmsman, and in a word anyone who was versed in any art or handicraft((See Sirach 38:25-39)). Pythagoras, however, restricting the title so as to apply to the knowledge and comprehension of reality, and calling the knowledge of the truth in this the only wisdom, naturally designated the desire and pursuit of this knowledge philosophy, as being desire … Continue

In this lesson, we study the demonstration of the first proposition in Euclid’s Geometry (Proposition 1.1). The analysis of the proposition is provided below. To complete the objectives of this lesson, complete the following tasks: Lesson

To complete the objectives of this lesson, complete the following tasks: Review past lessons on adjectives. Study the lesson for mastery. Memorize the rules in bold print. Complete the lesson assessment. Lesson 53. Adjectives are not declined in the English language. In Latin, we learn that adjectives are declined and vary in forms to show gender, number, case and degree. While this is not true of English adjectives, they do vary their forms to express degree. 54. An adjective undergoes a change of form to express a comparison between different objects. When we compare objects, we either compare one to … Continue