Words from Our Principal Dear Families and Friends of Lumen, On Monday, our Church in the United States asked us in a particular way to pray for the legal day of protection of unborn children. Our scholars’ Magnificats include some beautiful prayers for the day, such as this beautiful collect from the Mass for Giving...Read More

Words from Our Principal Dear Families and Friends of Lumen, O come, O come, Emmanuel! We are in the final stretch now of joyful anticipation of the coming of Christ! Today’s “O Antiphon” invites us to reflect on Jesus as “The Root of Jesse” – born of the House of David, which, after generations of...Read More

Words from Our Principal Dear Families and Friends of Lumen, This week marks the first week of the Advent season – a season in which we prepare to welcome the God made flesh Who forgives and redeems us from our sins. When a journalist asked Pope Francis, in his first interview after becoming Pope: “Who...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear Families and Friends of Lumen, The Feast of Christ the King this past Sunday was followed by Monday’s Feast of the Presentation of Mary. According to Church tradition, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anne, were – after years of barrenness – so grateful for Mary’s birth that they offered her to God...Read More

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