Coeur du Christ Academy

Please join us for the Baccalaureate Mass for the Class of 2026 as we give thanks to God for the first four-year graduating class of Coeur du Christ Academy and ask His continued blessing upon these remarkable young men and women.

In the classical Catholic tradition, the Baccalaureate Mass is an opportunity to pause before commencement festivities and recognize that every achievement finds its source and fulfillment in Christ. Together, we will pray for our graduates as they prepare to embark on the next chapter of their vocations.

All are welcome to join us in celebrating this historic moment for our school and to give thanks to God and the broader community.

Meet the Team | Mr. Zach Beckman
Teaching Faculty: Theology and Latin

Mr. Beckman joins Coeur du Christ Academy after a period of discernment with the Norbertines in Washington, D.C. Having since committed himself to the noble work of Catholic secondary education, he is eager to devote his gifts to the intellectual and spiritual formation of our young men and women at CDCA.

In addition to teaching Latin I and II, Mr. Beckman will lead a philosophy course entitled Foundations of Wisdom, drawing heavily from the work of Fr. Sebastian Walshe, O.P. He will also teach Spiritual Theology for our senior class, incorporating the wisdom and witness of great saints and doctors of the Church, including St. Augustine, St. Francis de Sales, St. John Paul II, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and St. Thomas Aquinas. He looks forward to helping students deepen their understanding of the Catholic faith while growing personally in their relationship with Christ. If God wills it, he intends to pursue his doctorate in the coming years.

The Catholic faith has always been central to Mr. Beckman's family life. As the child of two converts to the faith, he developed a profound appreciation for the great gift of Catholicism from an early age. He has spent the entirety of his education in faithfully Catholic schools, and when the time came to pursue undergraduate studies, he was delighted to attend Thomas Aquinas College in Southern California. His four years there solidified both his love for and devotion to classical education and the liberal arts, and he is overjoyed to bring that same passion and commitment to the Coeur du Christ community.

Mr. Beckman especially loved his theology studies at Thomas Aquinas College and desired to continue his formation in theology, particularly in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. He was blessed to attend the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., where he wrote his thesis on Divine Revelation and Sacred Tradition. Following his time at the PFIC, Mr. Beckman has taught theology to students of all ages, from sixth grade to adulthood.

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Everyone is talking about A.I. these days, but have you ever looked into cow eyes?

Play is not in opposition of formation; rightly ordered, it is one of its fruits. The saint is not merely serious - he is free, joyful, and full of wonder.

Please join the Coeur du Christ community in praying the Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as we approach the consecration of the United States to Christ, our patron and King.
https://www.usccb.org/novena-sacred-heart-jesus

IN THIS eNEWSLETTER
CDCA Departures & Meet the New Faculty
Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Senior Defenses as we approach Graduation for the Class of 2026
+ The Latest Happenings at Coeur du Christ!
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*Friendly Reminder*

NO MASS at St. Thomas today (6/3) and Friday (6/5)

Campus opens

at 8:35AM

Classes begin at 8:58AM

Only 1.5 weeks left of school!

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On June 3, begin your novena to consecrate the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Here are the prayers: https://www.usccb.org/novena-sacred-heart-jesus --day-1-heart-of-jesus-aflame-with-love-for-us

Senior Defenses have begun!

Well done, Miss Elia Howard 👏🏽

Reclaiming The Art Of Charitable Dialogue
"True peace cannot be built on cowardly silence. Avoiding conversations about religion and
politics has not protected society; it has eroded our capacity for truth-seeking, moral reasoning, and
authentic community. St. Augustine reminds us that, “The peace of all things is the tranquillity of order.”

Such order requires truth, not the avoidance of difficult topics. Humans are made for community and
rational speech, and when families neglect dialogue, when education abandons virtue, and when
individuals retreat into isolation, society becomes vulnerable to confusion, division, and ideological
extremism. Silence at home becomes shouting in the streets.

The implications are unmistakable: suppressing dialogue weakens families, fractures culture, and
undermines the common good. True peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of rightly
ordered relationships grounded in truth. St. Catherine of Siena’s warning echoes with renewed urgency:
“Cry out with a thousand tongues. I see the world is rotten because of silence.” Her words affirm that
silence is not neutrality; it is surrender.
This leaves Catholics with a responsibility to reclaim the art of charitable dialogue for the sake of
evangelization and cultural renewal. Let this renewal begin where all formation begins: in our homes, parishes, and local communities. We must ask better questions, listen with humility, teach children logic
and virtue, and speak the truth in love. Courageous conversation is not a threat to peace; it is the only path
that leads to it. If we speak with clarity and charity, at the right time, in the right way, and for the right
reason, we can raise a generation capable of building a culture marked not by fear or silence, but by truth,
freedom, and genuine peace."

Be a Saint for the times! St. Joan of Arc, pray for us!

"When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. The contrast between her and her century is the contrast between day and night. She was truthful when lying was the common speech of men; she was honest when honesty was become a lost virtue; she was a keeper of promises when the keeping of a promise was expected of no one; she gave her great mind to great thoughts and great purposes when other great minds wasted themselves upon pretty fancies or upon poor ambitions; she was modest, and fine, and delicate when to be loud and coarse might be said to be universal; she was full of pity when a merciless cruelty was the rule; she was steadfast when stability was unknown, and honorable in an age which had forgotten what honor was; she was a rock of convictions in a time when men believed in nothing and scoffed at all things; she was unfailingly true to an age that was false to the core; she maintained her personal dignity unimpaired in an age of fawnings and servilities; she was of a dauntless courage when hope and courage had perished in the hearts of her nation; she was spotlessly pure in mind and body when society in the highest places was foul in both—she was all these things in an age when crime was the common business of lords and princes, and when the highest personages in Christendom were able to astonish even that infamous era and make it stand aghast at the spectacle of their atrocious lives black with unimaginable treacheries, butcheries, and beastialities." - Mark Twain on St. Joan of Arc ⚜️