As you remember Good Friday and celebrate Easter Sunday this weekend, we would like to offer you some words of encouragement from Charlotte Mason’s Easter Day Meditations from 1921. Miss Mason would give these Sunday talks centered around Scripture passages to her House of Education students. These talks were also published in the “Parents’ Review” and are more recently available as a book.
In this particular section, Miss Mason was commenting on John 11:25 which states, “Jesus said to her, ‘ I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.’” Miss Mason said, “ When we fail, when we are unhappy, when things go wrong, let us not fear, there is always the Resurrection. When our hearts are sick and sad, when we think no one can help; when we see the image of the earthly in evil action, in evil presence, let us remember there is a resurrection coming, always coming. We may not live to see it, but the peace of God will come” (Scale How Meditations, p. 225).
Notes
1. Office Hours: On April 12 CMI Board Member Min Jung Hwang will answer questions on motherhood, ministry, homeschooling, habit formation, and equipping children well for life. Please join us!
2. Before Age Six: New, full-color “Before Age Six” guidebook will be published on June 1 and is included with membership.
3. CORE. Join one of the summer cohorts for this 8-week intensive on Charlotte Mason’s methods. Registration opens on April 10th, and spots go fast!
4. Office Hours: We now have almost 100 videos in our Office Hours spreadsheet organized by topic. You can find the spreadsheet here and on the Hive.
5. Survey Winners. Congratulations to Jillian Edwards and Lexi Pryor who each won a copy of the new edition of Philosophy of Education!
6. Office Hours: CMI board members Kerri Forney and Deani Van Pelt will answer questions on Mason's life in Ambleside for an upcoming Office Hours. (They hope to record their answers while in Ambleside.) Please submit your questions by April 10.
7. Science (HS): Novare Science texts used for Physics, Biology, and Chemistry in Grades 9-11 are 20% off until April 14th! Shop sale here.
Query
Latin: I am very excited about the Latin online course and want to clarify that we need not start our first week of Latin the first week that videos are posted. Is that correct?
Thank you for asking about the new online Alveary Latin course taught by Magistra Reed and available exclusively to Alveary members. You are correct that you do not have to start the course as soon as the videos are released. You will have one year of access from the first time you login to the course platform. Login information will be sent on August 1st.
We hope you have a wonderful celebration this Easter weekend remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is risen!
