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Carl Schmitt (1889-1989) was an extraordinary American artist. He combined the weight and substance of the European masters with the light and color of the Impressionists to create luminous paintings found in museums and private collections around the world. More than an outstanding artist, Schmitt pondered deeply and wrote articulately about what he was striving to achieve in his art. In his long life Schmitt produced a library of diverse writings with topics ranging from the fine arts, history, science, economics, and metaphysics, to the roles of family, society, and the human person. "The Conscience of Beauty" is a collection of over seventy of his essays edited by Samuel Schmitt, ...

John Schmitt founded Trivium School, the first in what became known as the classical education movement. Having interiorized the classical inheritance, he established a school that embodied what he himself had made his own. A teacher who presented the high ideal of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth, Schmitt would tell his students they are princes and princesses; heirs of the best that has been thought or said or made. He never tired of saying that beauty is in the thing in front of us—if only we had eyes to see. Schmitt had eyes to see. He understood that men must not only know the truth and do the good, but learn to delight in the beautiful, and to judge and make beautiful things. This is ...

St. Therese of Lisieux's Favorite Devotion! The Manual of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face is a collection of traditional devotions to the Holy Face of Our Lord in His Passion. It was canonically approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885 and promoted by Pope Pius XII in 1958 and practiced by St. Therese of Lisieux. This devotion is focused on reparation for the blasphemies committed against Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and for the profanation of Sunday and Holy Days. Inside you will find treasures such as: Official letters and documents written to and from the Holy Father, Statutes and Rules of the Archconfraternity, Indulgences granted by Leo XIII, Promises of Our Lord to those who honor His H ...