Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God Academy
The mission of the Mother of God Academy is to provide normal children of traditional Catholic families thorough education founded upon traditional principles. Our ultimate goal consists in forming good citizens and good Catholics, in such manner that the whole person may be submitted to the reign of Jesus Christ in the spiritual, moral, intellectual, and physical spheres.
With loyalty and dedication we are committed to fulfill the command of Archbishop Lefebvre: "We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of Faith have to be reconstructed; firstly the holy sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then our chapels, our monasteries, our large families, our enterprises faithful to the social politics of the Church, our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ – this is a whole tissue of Christian social life, Christian customs, Christian reflexes, which we have to restore."
Our founder's goals are also our goals.
General Principles
"The thoroughly Catholic education we are giving to our students, consists in informing their whole being to the supernatural life, in order that the whole person is submitted to the reign of Jesus Christ in the spiritual, moral, intellectual and physical sphere."
Fr. Franz Schmidberger
Society of Saint Pius X
"He who is apt at training the hearts of children surpasses by far the best painter, the best sculptor, indeed any artist or scientist."
[St. John Chrysostom]
The importance and ultimate function of Catholic schools can be duly measured only in terms of eternal values. The creative attribute of God the Father is evidenced in the family; the fruits of the redemption of God the Son are spread through the Church; and the illuminating sanctification by God the Holy Ghost is effected through the school. The unity of nature in God is reflected in the cooperation of the parents, the Church and the school; the Christian formation of youth is the crowning glory of all three. The school, then, is the third in the trinity of Unction in the sanctifying process of youth formation. "The mere fact that a school gives some religious instruction, often extremely stinted does not bring it into accord with the rights of the Church and of the Christian family. To be this, it is necessary that all the teachers, syllabi and textbooks in every branch, be regulated by the Christian spirit, under the direction and maternal supervision of the Church."
[pius XII]
"Since the vocation of the intellect is to contemplate the essence of things, our curriculum will grant the precedence to such disciplines that contain a contemplative nucleus, disciplines through which man may address questions to, and find answers about, his being in the light of Being. In history, poetry, philosophy, literature, music, geography, physics, mathematics, there are transparencies letting through realities and mysteries of God, the Universe, the structure of spirit and nature. Learning implies the various and appropriate techniques of approaching these subjects, but these techniques are in the service of higher objectives, not to the contemplation of reality."
[Thomas Molnar]
As Pope Pius XII said, a Liberal Arts education is the "very best way in which to form and to fashion the minds of young men so that when they grow up they will be able to think in an orderly fashion and to speak as clearly as they think." Our students will not become like "those for whom studies are only the indispensable condition for getting a diploma which will open up the way for a well-paying career. This occupation of theirs, which is too narrowly utilitarian, puts blinders on their eyes; they see nothing beyond the immediate matter for the examination." Rather, our curriculum will aim at the true formation of the whole individual; physical, intellectual, and spiritual.
"Prove all things: hold fast that which is good." [I Thess. 5 :21] Hence, in accepting the new, the Christian teacher will not hastily abandon the old, which the experience of centuries has found expedient and profitable. This is particularly true in the teaching of Latin, which in our days is faIling more and more into disuse, because of the unreasonable rejection of methods so successfully used by that same humanism, whose highest development was reached in the schools of the Church. Those notable traditions of the past require that the youth committed to Catholic schools be fully instructed in letters and sciences in accordance with the exigencies of the times. They also demand that the doctrine imparted be deep and solid, especially in sound philosophy, avoiding the muddled superficiality of those "who perhaps would have found the necessary, had they not gone in search of the superfluous."
[Seneca, Epist. 45]
"Hence the true Christian product of Christian education, is the supernatural man who thinks, judges and acts constantly and consistently in accordance with right reason illumined by the supernatural light of the example and teaching of Christ; in. other worth, to use the Current term, the true and finished man of character. For, it is not every kind of consistency and firmness of conduct based on subjective principles that makes true character, but only constancy in following the eternal principles of justice, as is admitted even by the pagan poet when he praises as one and the same "The man who is just and firm of purpose." [Horat. Od. I. 3, od. 3, vI] And on the other hand, there cannot be full justice except in giving to God what is due God, as the true Christian does."
[Pope Pius XI]
The Mother of God Academy Coat of Arms
Red = Charity *Blood of the Martyr* Holy Ghost
Gold (yellow) = Glory of God
White (of the dove) = Purity
Blue = The Blessed Mother
Dove = Holy Ghost = seven gifts of the Holy Ghost
Fleur de Lys = Blessed Virgin Mary
Rose = Charity *Love of God and love of the neighbor
Cross = Our Faith and the Mass *spirit of sacrifice
• We expect the students and the staff of teachers to seek first the love of God *and have a great desire to know and serve the Truth.
• We expect the students and the staff of teachers to live with purity of soul, mind, and body.
• We expect the students and the staff of teachers to make fruitful in their lives, the gifts of the Holy Ghost, especially Fortitude because of the difficult times in which we are living today.
• We expect the students and the staff of teachers to believe firmly and constantly in the maternal protection and help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Prayer of Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God Academy
Lord teach me to be generous;
Teach me to serve You as You deserve;
To give and not count the cost;
To fight and not heed the wounds;
To toil and not seek for rest;
To work and not ask for reward
Save that of knowing
That I am doing Your will.
– St. Ignatius of Loyola