Catholic Homeschool Support

Attention Homeschooling Parents and Students

Music-Based Evangelization Opportunities For Young, Catholic Musicians

Proclaiming the faith through beautiful music

Do you like to sing or can you play an instrument well?

Do you enjoy sharing your Catholic faith with others?

Can you be a good role model for today’s young people?

As faithful Catholics, we are all called to take up the challenge of Pope John Paul II’s call for a “New Evangelization”.  Saint Cecilia Classical Productions was founded in response to that call. We are a music-based, Catholic, evangelization apostolate whose principle focus is the advancement of the Culture of Life by the promotion of authentic Catholic family values to today’s young people. As an orthodox, lay organization, we profess complete fidelity to the Magisterium.

We are searching for traditional Catholic young women who wish to use their musical talents and knowledge of the faith in the service of Our Lord and Our Lady, so as to make a difference in the lives of young people. We are looking for young ladies with above average music ability in the areas of classical voice, string or wind instruments. While not a requirement, acting, music theater, choir or public speaking experience would be an additional plus. Some knowledge of Latin would also be helpful.

We are especially interested in individuals who were homeschooled or were raised in the Tridentine Mass tradition. High school seniors, college age women or recent graduates, especially those with degrees in music, are encouraged to apply. This is a great opportunity to learn more about one’s own faith, while evangelizing our young people, and bringing them the pro-life message. At the same time, you will also be working with other young Catholic musicians who share the same traditional values.

For more information about our work and requirements, please visit our websites at:

www.theladiesofcecilia.com

www.saintceciliaclassicalproductions.org

Interested young ladies may mail or e-mail (preferred) their résumé with repertoire to:

Mrs. Julie Baltrinic: Assistant Director

St. Cecilia Classical Productions Inc.

P.O. Box 129, Green, Ohio 44232

info@saintceciliaclassicalproductions.org

Saint Cecilia Classical Productions is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) public charity.  We were organized exclusively for religious, educational and charitable purposes.

http://www.mycatholicfaithdelivered.com/Home.aspx

I have not had time to go through the sample lessons, but they are offering Faith and Life and Didache via an online interface. This text is from the  Leon Suprenant:

For over a decade I worked for Catholics United for the Faith (CUF), which authored the Faith and Life series published by Ignatius Press.

During my time with CUF I was so edified by all the amazing endorsements we received. I also saw that Faith and Life was a particular favorite of many homeschooling families. Our family has used it all along.

This brings me to why I’m writing. I now work for an online Catholic learning center called My Catholic Faith Delivered (www.mycatholicfaithdelivered.com). We strive to combine the finest catechetical courses/programs with state-of-the-art, interactive technology, as Pope Benedict has encouraged us to do in his recent World Communications Days addresses.

We now offer for this fall the Faith and Life series in an online format. It has everything that the book version has, but so much more to engage the children! We also have three years of the Didache high school series ready as well.

Here’s something I posted on our blog last week about Faith and Life:

http://blog.mycatholicfaithdelivered.com/post/Faith-and-Life-Is-Now-Online!.aspx

Sincerely in Christ,

Leon Suprenant

My Catholic Faith Delivered

I am all about saving money and usually buy used syllabi and books for school. I was unable to find a used syllabus for 10th grade religion this year for Mother of Divine Grace. So, I picked up a copy at the Atlanta homeschool conference.

I was in for quite a pleasant surprise – the new syllabus has an Assignment Overviews section. I just received a new copy of the 10th grade Ancient History, and I”m so pleased with this new section. For each paper assignment, there is nearly a half a page describing the method and content for the assignment.  The first assignment is a Summary of the Life of Daniel. There is an explanation of what a summary is – that there should be a theme to the summary and that what is included should bear out the theme (of course this is a very brief explanation). In the Content section, there is a explanation of what Daniel shows us so it’s like a very mini set of Cliff notes.

These notes are so helpful for parents who are trying to help their students and well worth the additional cost of buy new syllabi. You can always call Emmanuel Books. Their helpful staff is very familiar with Mother of Divine Grace and will be happy to see if the new syllabi have this section (not all have been updated and I’m not sure if all the grade levels have these kind of notes).

One further note is the the Henle 1A and 1B were extensively revised last year to include great fill in the blank charts to help students cement verb conjugation and noun  declension. I was happy to have updated these  syllabi last year.

And, since I mentioned Emmanuel Books, I thought I would publicly praise them for their awesome customer support. I placed an order just before Easter this year for a gift that I was going to give my priest. Somehow, I ended up sending it to the wrong address. They tracked my package down and had it redirected to the correct address so that I received it in time for Easter. Thank you for helping to correct my blunder.