Words from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, Sunday’s first reading came from 2 Maccabees 7:1-14 and told the story of the martyrdom of a mother and her seven sons, who had been arrested for refusing to eat pork (and thereby show their obedience and loyalty to Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the pagan Seleucid...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, On Friday, October 28 (which also happens to be the birthday of our beloved chaplain Fr. Riley!), our Church celebrated the Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude. Though we have already reflected on the Honor Code principle of genuinely seeking the moral, spiritual, and intellectual...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, On October 12, we celebrated the feast day of Bl. Carlo Acutis, popular for being a “millennial” saint and known for his love of computers and video games. It goes without saying that Bl. Carlo is an ideal example of a young man committed to using...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, “When departing from a place, I will leave it better than I found it.” In our school Honor Code, these words generally apply to our physical surroundings – leaving our cafeteria cleaner than we entered, for instance, or our classrooms tidier. Yet in many ways, to leave...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, We hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. With temperatures dipping and the trees changing color, we’ve officially left summer behind – and it feels like it too! Last Friday our Church celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, commemorating a day when the power...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, This Saturday, our Church celebrated the feast of one of the most beloved saints of all time: St. Therese of Lisieux. While it would be impossible to make a full reckoning of the virtues of this saint – who, despite (or perhaps because!) of her youthful...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear Families and Friends of Lumen, Last Friday, our Church celebrated the feast of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, better known as  “Padre Pio.” While his life is incredibly fascinating for its supernatural qualities – he was known for bearing the stigmata as well as for having the ability to bilocate and read souls – his more...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear Families and Friends of Lumen Verum Academy, Last week our Church celebrated so many beautiful saints! In an entirely unplanned but completely providential coincidence, the Faith Formation Team announced our yearly theme – “Beauty of the Word” – on the feast day of St. John Chrysostom, whose name means “golden mouthed”...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear Families and Friends of Lumen Verum Academy, We hope you had a happy Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary! May Our Lady bless and protect you and all who invoke her fair name. As we begin this school year, I’ve set a small challenge for myself: to try, in...Read More

Updates from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, Welcome to the beginning of a new school year! We hope that the long weekend was a beautiful cap-off to your summer, as bittersweet as such endings can be. This year has already seen many changes to our school – a new schedule, a new...Read More