Founded upon the Four Pillars of the Ordinariate Patrimony, Cathedral High School does what all the best Catholic education initiatives seek to accomplish: assist parents in the spiritual, human, and academic formation of their children, while equipping her students for that very task to which each one alone has been called to by God. Cathedral seeks to form and educate young people in the pursuit of holiness and wisdom.
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.
- St. John Henry Newman
Authentic Catholic education in the classical tradition fosters in students a love for God through the pursuit of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, in a liturgically inspired culture that encourages the maturation of each student’s will and intellect. Together students and faculty attend daily Mass; together we read and discuss important primary texts; together we create and contemplate beauty in sacred art and sacred music; and together we find that our pursuit of the truth, undertaken in the camaraderie of friendship, immerses us in a culture that our liturgical prayer nourishes.
Our academic studies and school culture are founded upon and illuminated by the Four Pillars of the Patrimony of the Ordinariate. Sacred Worship of God in the beauty of holiness is primary, it and informs everything else. Sacred Art and Sacred Music are not extra-curriculars, but they are central to teaching and forming the hearts, minds, and imaginations of our students. As a school, we aspire to true wisdom over knowledge of mere facts, so that the unity of the beauty and goodness of the world can be manifest in our lives.
Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that
every soul I come in contact with may feel Your Presence in my soul...
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best,
by shining on those around me.- St. John Henry Newman