June 3, 2026

Students celebrating after our annual Spring Concert

Dear friends of Chesterton,

As St. Josemaria Escriva writes, "Perseverance in little things for Love is heroism."

Each morning at Chesterton, the students and faculty sing a hymn (in four parts!), pray a psalm, hear the day's Gospel, and pray the Canticle of Zechariah, and I offer the students a brief reflection on our virtue of the week.

This week, our virtue is Temperance - letting our actions be guided by right reason, rather than simply by desires or momentary feelings.

Temperance is not the most glamorous virtue - that would probably be courage - but it is a beautiful one. It is a necessary one when we come close to the end of something, including at the end of each school year - and for our seniors, for the culmination of their high school journeys!

As Josef Pieper writes, temperance is like the banks of a river. With strong banks, a river courses powerfully and beautifully through the land. Without those banks, it disperses and disappears. Temperance, then, one of the cardinal virtues, helps us to be fully alive, as a Chesterton education calls us to be.

Human beings are special -- indeed, "Magnificent," as Pope Leo has written. We are the earthly creatures the Lord has made who are able to know him. For us, to be fully alive means to notice the little things. According to St. Irenaeus, "The glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man is the contemplation of God." To contemplate means to see and love.

But in our culture, it is this ability to notice things -- and, in noticing them, to love them -- that is most undermined. Our culture attacks our ability to notice in two ways: first, it monetizes our attention through relentless advertising. Second, it prizes efficiency over relationships - relationships with one another, certainly, but also with the creatures we are called to steward. For most of us, it has become more important to get things done quickly, than to do them with great love and attention. In fact, we might say we are constantly tempted to "get things over with," when what will truly make us happy is to love them.

A Chesterton education stands athwart these temptations. It seeks to keep "Magnificent Humanity" at the center of our high school education, by cultivating habits of attention and deep engagement. Chesterton students learn to live what human beings are called to do - to know, love, and serve the Lord, first through having the ability and desire to truly know and love what He has made. In this way, through the intercession of Our Lady, we hope our students -- and soon, graduates -- are witnesses to the world of "Magnificent Humanity."

Feasts, seminars, plays, experiments, athletics, concerts, and everything else our students do: these all form them to persevere in giving attention and will -- in giving themselves -- to the beautiful and good things God has given to us, and thereby give themselves to God Himself.

Please read on for exciting updates and upcoming events. We hope you will join us!

Rise up, Knights!

Gratefully yours in Christ,

Robert Duffy, PhD

Headmaster,

on behalf of the CAOLH Leadership Team

Upcoming Events

First Graduating Class!

Chesterton Academy's vanguard class will graduate on Friday, June 12. Please keep them in your prayers. Congratulations, students!

Join with us to celebrate Together Tuesday, a national day of giving and service, to continue our mission to:

Ensure affordable tuition

Appoint & develop faith-filled faculty & staff

Improve our building & grounds

Expand student activities

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***Save the Date!***
Next Annual Gala

January 28, 2027

Other News

Join us for daily Mass

During the month of May,12 different priests celebrated Mass at Chesterton. We are so grateful for the continued support of the diocese and these holy men.

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Chesterton Schools Network Summit

This June, several members of our faculty and staff will be traveling to Ave Maria University for the Chesterton Schools Network Annual Summit where they will attend a multi-day conference designed to enrich and expand their teaching and administrative knowledge, and learn more about how Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Hope can continue to grow and expand. Please pray for our faculty and staff members and for a fruitful conference!

Glimpses of Chesterton

Our Seniors visited Cathedral of the Holy Cross during their senior trip.

Our first Junior/Senior dance was held at Hotel Providence!

Thank you to the wonderful seminarians who visited our students to share their testimonies!

Happy birthday to several teachers and students this month!

Our Freshmen performed our first Latin Play for our Feast of the Ascension - telling the legend of St. Nicholas saving three paupers from an evil in-keeper.