The primary mission of Holy Family Classical School is forming Christian disciples. The word disciple comes from the Latin discipula, meaning student, specifically a student of a teacher. A student of a teacher looks to follow his instructions and directions, and Jesus told us that the greatest of the commandments were to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength,” and “love your neighbor as yourself.” At the very end of His time on earth, Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, to go and “make disciples of all nations.”

When we say that we’re forming Christian disciples, we want to form students who love the Lord, love their neighbors, and love themselves, so that they can be prepared to go forth and make disciples of all nations. This is the fundamental mission of the Church, and as the largest ministry of Holy Family Cathedral, the fundamental mission of Holy Family Classical School.

As a school, we do this in a unique way, through a classical, Catholic education. Classical education is about forming students in all of their faculties: their senses, imagination, memory, passions, intellect, and will. All of this is ordered to Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Unity, and as Catholics, we know that Truth is a person, specifically the second person of the Holy Trinity, Jesus who became incarnate that we might live forever in union with Him in heaven. God is the source of all Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Unity, and classical education finds its fulfillment in the Catholic intellectual tradition.