Dear Friends and Families of Lumen, First of all, let me wish a very happy belated Mother’s Day to all of our Lumen Verum mothers. I hope and pray you all had a beautiful, restful day, and that in this month of Mary you yourselves were able to take comfort in the love of our...Read More

A Catholic school like no other – designed to give young men and women an outstanding education, deepen their faith, and develop them into tomorrow’s leaders. At the center of Lumen Verum Academy, and indeed the center of human life, is Jesus Christ. Lumen Verum seeks to immerse students in the life of Catholic faith...Read More

Dear families and friends of Lumen, Happy feast of St. Joseph the Worker! Yesterday’s feast occurs the day after Good Shepherd Sunday – a happy coincidence, because St. Joseph, in guarding, protecting, and caring for Jesus and Mary, exemplifies all the human qualities of the “Good Shepherd” that Jesus would go on to articulate in...Read More

Words from our Principal Dear families and friends of Lumen, About a week ago, I finally finished a book I began over Christmas break: James Matthew Wilson’s The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition. (You may remember James Matthew Wilson as he visited us in December as a student DGL!) Wilson’s...Read More

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, I hope you all had a beautiful Gaudete Sunday! This past week we celebrated two beautiful feast days: Our Lady of Guadalupe (12/12) and St. Lucy’s Day (12/13)! In honor of those feasts, I’d like to share with you a few hymns and videos: Our...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, On November 9, the Church celebrated the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, the official cathedral of the diocese of Rome – in other words, the true cathedral of the Pope! You can virtually tour this remarkable basilica on the Vatican’s website, or you can...Read More