Letter from the Headmaster

Dear Chesterton Academy Families and Friends,

We, the families, board, faculty, and students of the Chesterton Academy of Sacramento, are now four months into realizing this fine school for which we have all sacrificed and prayed. With God’s blessing, and our humble submission to His Will, we can continue to build up the Culture of Life, forming educated Catholics who love the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. We stand not so much against the world as for the Kingdom of God, responding with love and hope to the nihilism and despair by which the lord of this world seeks to destroy us and our children.It is only through the prayers, sacrifice, and yes, financial support of many good people, that we have been blessed to succeed thus far. Not to us, Lord, but to You be the glory! The success of our Fleur-de-Lis Gala in October and other fundraising activities has secured for us the resources to operate this academic year and to start focusing on the next. But the task of funding a school and keeping it affordable to most Catholic families does not end after one successful year.

As many a saint has said, our reward for doing God’s work is that He will ask us to do even more. Therefore, overcoming my own trepidation, I dare to ask you, supporters of the work of the Chesterton Academy of Sacramento: can you give more? Can you make a year-end gift to help us keep growing into the future?That our school is part of a great work of the Spirit is evident: in a few short years, forty-five Chesterton Academies have opened and operate in the United States, with many more planning to open in the next year. Growth like this, of schools that stand against everything the Culture of Death is trying to inflict on us and our children, does not happen unless God wills it. We have confidence that by training our students how to think, and not what to think, we are equipping them to withstand and even triumph over the lies and corruption in which the world immerses them. May these our children, and we ourselves, be the leaven the world so desperately needs!

Our goal is to raise $10,000 during this year-end gift campaign. One key goal has always been to keep the tuition as low as we can. As much as possible, we want every Catholic family to be able to afford this education for their children. Our tuition is about half the cost of most other Catholic high schools in the area, a fact made possible only through the generosity of you, our donors.

A donation of $100, $200, $500, or more, will help keep this classical Catholic education affordable and accessible in our area. Can you do this much?

Our donors are specifically mentioned in the intentions of our Friday liturgies; young people are commending you to Our Lord for your generosity! We also humbly ask you to keep us (the students, faculty, staff, board, and all our families) in your prayers!

Thanksgiving, most perfectly expressed in the Eucharist, is the key to happiness. We all thank you, and wish you a most blessed Christmas season!

In Christ,
Joseph Moore
Headmaster