60 YEARS COURAGEOUSLY Living the Gospel August 23, 2020 WEEKEND MAGAZINE 21st Sunday in OT

Saints who studied (or taught) from home

Education has changed a lot through the centuries, but some are known for the lessons they gave or re- ceived at home. By Meg Hunter-Kilmer

ith many parents choosing to home- school their children for the first time this year (and plenty more continuing W after years of educating their children at home), homeschooling families around the world would do well to look to the saints who’ve gone before. Though none of them had to deal with online learning or an abundance of curricula to choose from, all of these homeschooling and homeschooled saints are models of how to grow in holiness while learning (and teaching) at home. St. Emilia of Caesarea (d. 375) is known as the Mother of Saints. Among her 10 children are three bishops (one a ) and a total of six saints. And while her sons eventually left home and went off to school, Emilia and her mother-in-law St. taught them all at home in their youth, with Emilia’s oldest daughter (St. Macrina the Younger) helping out with the little ones. This was the intellectual foundation of Sts. Basil the Great and . As in many large homeschooling families, the siblings learned nearly as much from each other as they did from their parents, and both Basil and Gregory considered their older sister Macrina enormously influen- tial on their intellectual and spiritual formation. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) changed the face of American education forever when she found- ed the first free Catholic school in America. But before she was a pioneer in the field of education, she was a homeschooling mother of five. After her husband’s death, the young convert to Catholicism continued to educate her own children with such success that other children began to attend her classes. Though anti-Catholicism forced her from her home in New York City, Elizabeth Ann found a patron in the Archbishop of Baltimore, who supported her as she founded a brick-and-mortar school in Maryland, run by her new order, the Daughters of Charity.

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Continued from front page St. Francis Choe Kyong-hwan (1805-1839) realized as a young man that religious practice had declined among Korean Catholics who had been living for decades without a priest. To fight this, Francis and his wife (Blessed Maria Yi Seong-rye) founded a small Catholic village. In addition to working the fields, Francis educated his own children and all the villagers, gathering them in his home each night to instruct them in the faith. As the persecution of Christians worsened, Francis encour- aged his people to bury all their sacramentals and sacred images so that PASTOR they wouldn’t be defiled by soldiers; the books, however, they must not Rev. Wayne C. Genereux hide. “A soldier going to war needs his battle instructions,” he said. DEACONS “At a time like this we must study all the books more earnest- Deacon Bill Lovelace ly.” When soldiers came to arrest the Christians, Francis offered them Deacon Lionel Roberts, food and a good night’s rest. The next morning, dozens of Christians Deacon Emeritus peacefully followed the soldiers to prison; several were then martyred, including Francis and Maria. Their oldest son, Servant of God Thom- PASTOR EMERITUS as Choe Yang-up, later became the second native Korean priest. Msgr. Anton Dechering St. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783-1854) had been homeschooled Retired herself as a child. Though it was the custom of well-to-do Spanish fami- CLERGY ASSISTANCE lies to bring in governesses, Joaquina’s mother chose to educate her Fr. Jack McDowell, OFM children herself. After Joaquina married, she did the same, home- Fr. Anthony Fortunato, OdeM schooling all nine of her children even after her chronically ill husband Fr. Victor Bartolotta left her a widow at only 33. When her children were mostly grown, she founded an order of Carmelites dedicated to the same work she had MASS SCHEDULE spent her life doing: teaching and nursing. Weekday Masses Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin (1823-1894, 1831-1877) sent their daugh- Monday - Saturday 8:00 AM ters to boarding school when the girls were about eight, but up to that Weekend Masses point lessons were taught in the home. Zélie instructed her children in Saturday Vigil at 4:00 PM history and religion as well as teaching them to read; Louis con- Sunday ducted the examinations, in which his daughters sought to please 8:00 AM, 9:30 Am & 11:30 AM their father. And when young Léonie was repeatedly expelled from the Follow the Sunday Mass on our school her sisters attended, she came home again to be educated by her website, btsp.org. mother, though Zélie was also busy with the lace-making business that supported the family. It was during this time (when the Martins chose to Confessions can be arranged with homeschool their third daughter rather than sending her to another Fr. Wayne. Call his private school) that Léonie and Zélie found healing in their relationship and number to make your Léonie began to master her obstinate and emotionally unstable nature; appointment, 727-401-0487. many years later, Léonie would be declared a Servant of God, like her

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What does it mean to be a good steward? Does it mean to be an active parishioner, or something more? Are we better stewards because we give more in terms of our money and time to our parish, or are we called to do even more than that? Last Week’s Giving The truth is that stewardship is a way of life. We are not simply called August 16, 2020 to be active parishioners, but instead be active disciples all the time. In Collected at Mass fact, what we learn to do in our parish should serve as preparation for Offertory $2,000 the mission field of the world. What have we really done if we only act Building Fund $ 25 like disciples of Jesus Christ while we are assembled with others who Assumption $ 568 claim to be the same? St Vincent de Paul $1,583 Other $ 152 The choice before us is to give of ourselves in all aspects of our day and life. The call of Jesus will come in our everyday lives with our co- Mailed or brought in: workers, family, and friends more often than it will within our parish Offertory $1,185 community. First, if we can’t become good stewards when we are among those who proclaim Jesus as Lord, how will we be able to do so Online giving when we are with those who are non-believers? Second, when our Offertory $ 625 muscles of gratitude, generosity, and graciousness are strengthened Building Fund $ 25 within our parish community, we are more able to meet the challenges of this world. However, we do not become good stewards by accident. We must always choose to live this way. What will you choose? Thank you for your generosity! – Tracy Earl Welliver

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