Preserving and Handing Down the Heritage of Christendom
St. Patrick's is an institute for the preservation and furtherance of classical education and the Western tradition, offering courses to homeschooling families.
We exist to encourage and equip Christian families to affirm the true, pursue the good, and enjoy the beautiful, to the glory of Jesus Christ, by whom and for whom all things were created.
St. Patrick's Courses
Old Western Culture
This humanities course provides a lively and robust overview of the history and literature of Western civilization by focusing each year on one era in a cycle of four: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Christendom, and Early Moderns.
"A generation unmoored from its own intellectual patrimony is a generation adrift, unable to understand the foundations of the very liberties it takes for granted." — Michael S. Rose
Latin
“The student who declines nouns, conjugates verbs, translates Cicero, and scans Virgil is not merely acquiring a language but entering an intellectual tradition that unites grammar and rhetoric, history and philosophy, logic and poetry in a single course of study.” — Michael S. Rose
“No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
Mathematics
Through our Algebra and Geometry courses, students are led to discover and enjoy the ordered structure of reality, and to better comprehend the beauty of God's creation.
"In geometry's elegnat proofs lies evidence that precision and beauty are not warring opposites but necessary companions." — Michael S. Rose
Natural Science
Cultivating the disicplines of observation and wonder through Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy, students are equipped to understand, explore, steward, and delight in God's creation in fulfillment of the dominion mandate.
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to search it out.” (Pr 25:2)