Socratic method, critical thinking and the liberal education tradition. Over the years from about 1960 to 2000 a debate raged between content and process in education. The conservatives said that it was the content matter which mattered. The progressives said it didn’t matter what you taught … that education was all about a journey ……
In continuation of our series of orginal reflections on Our Lady from Chavagnes, we here reproduce a homily given at Chavagnes in 2016 by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan and secretary of the Kazakhstan Catholic Bishops’ Conference. In honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, the Mother of God and…
The last few months have forced us all to change our routines significantly. For many, including you, I hope it has also been an opportunity to spend more time with family, on hobbies, catching up on that ever-growing ‘to read’ list of books and, importantly, on spiritual life. For schools, it has been a time…
This morning, 13th May 2020, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, referring to the Marian apparitions in Fatima, Pope Francis said: “We turn in thought to Her apparitions and to Her message transmitted to the world, as well as to the attack on Saint John Paul II, who in the sparing of his life,…
Nos stages 2020 par INTERNET CHAVAGNES: Fondé en 1802 par le Vénérable Louis Marie Baudouin après les guerres de Vendée. Transformé en « Collège International » en 2002, avec des professeurs anglophones natifs. A Chavagnes, nous formons les leaders de demain depuis 2002 … Nos anciens sont déjà à l’armée, dans la marine, dans l’industrie,…
Stage d’anglais « for boys » et « for girls » Enfin une solution pour l’anglais … Seul internat catholique anglais pour garçons dans toute la France, depuis 23 ans nous proposons des stages intensifs d’anglais pour nos élèves francophones, et d’autres garçons et filles. Les stages pendant l’année scolaire, et les stages de rattrapage pendant les vacances ,…
We are organising a virtual ball, all online … on Saturday 23rd May 2020. Imagine a magical place where you can meet up with all your family and friends whom you haven’t seen for ages, plus catch up with your old classmates and meet new people too. All in a wonderful party atmosphere, just like…
In a talk delivered at the Chavagnes Summer conference in 2016, Bishop Athanasius Schneider reflects on the power of Mary as a handmaid of the Truth. “Rejoice, O Virgin Mary, for thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world. Thou believed the word of the Archangel Gabriel. A virgin still, thou brought forth…
In a paper delivered at the 2016 Chavagnes Summer conference, Gerhard Eger reveals that for centuries Catholics’ devotion to Our Lady, now associated with private devotions, was expressed much more frequently throught public liturgical acts. + JMJ + Your Excellency, Reverend Fathers, dear brethren in Christ, Let us, for a while at least, leave our…
by Father Mark Lawler (Paper delivered at the 2016 Chavagnes Summer Conference) Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born on May 29th, 1874 into a family which though Unitarian, was not particularly religious. As a young man he moved from agnosticism to Anglicanism, and under the influence of his future wife, Frances, became an Anglo-Catholic. He was…
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