Chesterton Academy’s House system is drawn from the 1,000 year-old tradition of Christian education exemplified in the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. The Houses provide real, tangible community within the larger school.
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OLV is excited to announce that Mrs. Stacey Bowman has been selected as the school’s first executive director. Mrs. Bowman brings a wealth of legal and school management experience, a heart for Catholic classical education, and a real passion for serving our teachers and families.
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The CSN and Franciscan University of Steubenville have entered a partnership that would allow our OLV students to earn Franciscan credits for our Chesterton classes (three college hours/credits each for our year-long 11th and 12th-grade theology and philosophy courses).
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Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Victory is excited to announce its new location for the 2022-23 school year: the campus of Littleton Church of Christ at 6495 S. Colorado Blvd. in Centennial.
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So much that happens in the classroom depends upon the conversations between faculty, as we sharpen and refine one another. Mr. Reuter, our Latin teacher, and I recently discussed Dietrich von Hildebrand’s concept of values as radiating from objective goodness.
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I wish you could have been there: At faculty-formation meetings the week before the school year began on Monday, August 30, we gathered early for Mass and late for prayer. A few parents joined us for lively discussion about how we--the faculty--can better serve families in their vocation of raising their children in the love and life of God.
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Beauty’s meaning has been restricted in the modern world, focusing on what immediately pleases us, particularly through the senses. The deepest beauty, however, flows from transcendent principles: the right ordering, perfection, and harmony of things. Truth and goodness are beautiful and, when our minds attune to them, our lives become marked by beauty. With this understanding, math can be seen as beautiful, not drudgery, and even the visual arts take on a great significance as they manifest deeper truths about human life and the true good.
In Our Lady of Victory’s first year, we’ve seen the beauty of Catholic education unfolding within our community.
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"Everything is so splendid that . . . I am lost in admiration." This sentiment, from Telemachus, Odysseus' son, expresses beautifully our aim in classical education. Our students are currently tackling Homer's Odyssey, depicting that ten-year journey across the Mediterranean. As we follow Odysseus's wanderings, we discover so many essential elements of human life and culture: piety, pride and humility, hospitality, endurance, faithful love, and wonder.
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Today, Denver’s new and first Catholic classical high school has chosen Our Lady of Victory as its patroness, with the mission of developing the whole person and forming students who are holy, well-educated and prepared to engage the present culture and contribute to society.
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Chesterton Academy’s House system is drawn from the 1,000 year-old tradition of Christian education exemplified in the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. The Houses provide real, tangible community within the larger school.
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Because we seek to transform our culture, from the beginning one of the great principles of Chesterton Academy has been a commitment to thrift. Our dream is a return to the days when a strong, classical Catholic education was affordable for any middle- or working-class family, large or small, living on a single income.
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Chesterton Academy is named for the great English writer and Catholic convert, G.K. Chesterton (1874- 1936). Chesterton is a model for our school because he exemplified the Catholic faith through a life filled with joy, wonder, and gratitude.
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