Christian Life Education Begins Sept. 19th
The St. George Christian Life Education Program begins Sunday, September 19th.
The school year has begun for our students and our Christian education program is about to kick off. Pre-K to 8th grade students will be receiving Holy Communion first with their teachers, and then departing to class. High School and College aged students will be meeting Sunday evenings at 5 pm.
This year’s theme will be the Great Commandment of Christ.
Our program is more than “Sunday School,” as we will be expecting our students to live their lives as disciples of Christ, and learners of His way every day, all day long.
More specific information will be available shortly.
If you have any questions, contact Jenny Gusty or Fr. John.
Read what the heroes of our Christian faith have said about education…
“Of all the holy works, the education of children is the most holy.”
St. Theophan the Recluse
“This is the cause of all evils, the not knowing the Scriptures.”
St. John Chrysostom Homily IX on Colossians
“Do you wish your son to be obedient? From the very first, “Bring him up in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.” Never deem it an unnecessary thing that he should be a diligent hearer of the divine Scriptures. For there the first thing he hears will be this: ‘Honor thy father and thy mother’. So then, this is for you. Never say, ‘This is the business of monks’. Am I making a monk of him? No, there is no need he should become a monk. Why be so afraid of a thing so replete with so much advantage? Make him a Christian. For it is of all things necessary for laymen to be acquainted with the lessons derived from this source, but especially for children. For theirs is an age full of folly and to this folly are added the bad examples derived from the heathen tales, where they are made acquainted with those heroes so admired amongst them…[A child] requires therefore the remedies against these things. How is it not absurd to send children out to trades and to school, and to do all you can for these objectives, and yet, not to “Bring them up in the chastening and admonition of the Lord?” And for this reason truly we are the first to reap the fruits, because we bring up our children to be insolent and profligate, disobedient and mere vulgar fellows. Let us not then do this; no, let us listen to this blessed Apostle’s admonitions “Let us bring them up in the chastening and admonition of the Lord”. Let us give them a pattern. Let us make them from the earliest age apply themselves to the reading of the Scriptures…..Study not to make him an orator, but train him up to be a [Christian] philosopher. In the want of the one there will be no harm whatever; in the absence of the other, all the rhetoric in the world will be of no advantage. Tempers are wanted, not talking; character, not cleverness; deeds not word. These gain a man the kingdom. These confer what are benefits indeed. Whet not his tongue but cleanse his soul. I do not say this to prevent you teaching him these things, but to prevent your attending to them exclusively. Do not imagine that the monk alone stands in need of these lessons from Scripture. Of all others, the children just about to enter into the world especially need them.”
St. John Chrysostom, Homily XXI On Ephesians
