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Musings

These are the short articles from the weekly Mount Hope Lutheran School Newsletter. Topics include poems, paintings, great literary works, and the philosophy of classical education. You can browse through past articles here on the website, and you can subscribe to receive new ones in your inbox using the form on this page.

The Importance of Memorization

Since what surrounds someone becomes memorized, and since what is memorized becomes internalized, and since what is internalized informs outward actions, then we should value memorization highly…

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Miss Hannah Engwall February 28, 2022

Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (MHLS Choir)

This flow’r, whose fragrance tender
With sweetness fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendor
The darkness ev’rywhere.
True man, yet very God,
From sin and death he saves us
And lightens ev’ry load.

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Pastor Andrew Richard February 27, 2022

The Lie of Futility

“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”

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Pastor Andrew Richard February 7, 2022

Alexander the Great and Virtue

“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories,” he said, “is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

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Miss Anna Hahn January 31, 2022

O Christ, Our True and Only Light

O Lord, show forth all Your grace, search for the lost, bring back the one who has gone astray, assemble the scattered, restore those who have erred and been tempted, so that they, together with us, might praise You in the Christian Church and receive the common salvation.

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Miss Hannah Engwall January 25, 2022

The Talent God Has Bestowed

“Therefore, as long as any breath remains in me, I will not refrain from doing good to my neighbor and serving him with the talent God has bestowed upon me.”

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Miss Anna Hahn January 19, 2022

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