Posted on 03/18/2007 5:11:25 PM PDT by bboop
I am looking for an article I scanned but did not save that was posted a day or two ago. In it, Fr. Fessio said something to the effect that homeschooling moms/ homeschoolers were the new monasteries, where the culture was being saved and taught.
Can anyone direct me to that article? I don't believe the article was focused on homeschooling.
What was the freeper's name, again? There isn't any Fessio or even Fr. Fessio in the poster bank.
Please ping me when you find it... Bless you.
hahah, Father Fessio, President of Ave Maria University in Florida.
Ah, well, the trials and tribulations of searching.:)
Wasn't that in "Catholic Dossier" at some point? It seems very familiar!
I'd try the Ignatius Press or Catholic Answers sites and see if they have Fr. Fessio's articles archived.
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/1998-11-12/oration.html
It's a much older article than I expected, but I believe this is it.
Looks like it. I was getting "Catholic Dossier" at the time. It went away at some point, I think, or I missed the "This is Really Your TOTALLY LAST RENEWAL NOTICE!"
I've never really felt monastic about homeschooling (fwiw). It's just me and my kids and a lot of books, and everybody wants to use the computer at the same time, and nobody wants to clean the bathroom except me, and no, you can't have macaroni and cheese at every meal.
But somehow they all do fine on the standardized tests, and people who don't see the mess they make in the bathroom think they're wonderful children!
Yeah,
No idea, sorry......
However here is a link to boozing it up in the Barrio........
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01_07/01_07_boozing_in_the_barrio.html
Enjoy!
Alex, cool, thanks. It is not the quote I had read, but it is surely along the same lines. I thot it was so encouraging.
Thanks y'all. Evidently Fr. Fessio has been talking about this for some time. Interesting links, much to chew on. I like his simile, tho.
I found it!! In Hugh Hewitt's interview with Fr. Fessio several days ago. Thanks again to all of you --
JF: Well, Hugh, I've got one of the very few things that I've said, which I'm proud of, because it's become kind of almost a slogan to some, is that home schools are the monasteries of the new dark ages. That is...and you non-Catholic Christians have a lot more of them than we Catholics do, but we've got a lot. And I think that is where families are having children. They're passing on the faith to their children. They're giving them wisdom and the knowledge of our culture. And we have an advantage here, because the homosexuals, and the pro-abortionists, and the pro-contraception people, are not having children by definition.
Yeah well, I imagine in the monasteries everybody wanted to sit in the cloisters and read and write, but had to spend a lot of time washing the flagstones and hoeing in the fields, and you'd get in trouble just for talking.
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, there's something in the Rule of Benedict that if you didn't do physical labor you didn't get any meat or wine.
We have a similar concept, "Since you've just been sitting around, you obviously can't be hungry!"
Do you suppose the Rule of Silence was invented so they'd stick to their work and not spend the whole time horsing around and bickering?
YES! If any two of my children are within earshot of one another, there's nothing but yacketyacketyackety and nothing gets done.
I wish I had a facility with separate little cells, like Monte Cassino :-).
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