Students Singing at the Mercer Museum

Yesterday was a Frassati Friday at Martin Saints. Our students visited the Mercer Museum in Doylestown. Some of them realized the building's amazing acoustics and burst into song.

Enjoy this video, which is 90 seconds of joy and beauty.

But if you've got time, take another minute to think about this moment, and everything that converges to enable it. These young men and women are "normal." They are not perfect, they're not angels.

However, in another respect, they have superpowers. They have have been classically educated. Wow! What a great way to spend your precious teenage years.

To nurture teenagers who can do this...to nurture teens who want to do this...it implies a whole way of life, a commitment to doing things a little differently.

Behind the scenes here are families who value beauty, music, practice, and excellence.

Behind the scenes here are teachers who are on mission, who work hard to find unusual locations that embody our curriculum, places which lift the veil to hint at a bigger, more beautiful world.

Behind the scenes here are donors who realize that Martin Saints is a counter-cultural school, and that it takes sacrifice to build a new culture and create new institutions.

Doylestown's Mercer Museum was founded by Henry Chapman Mercer, a 19th century archeologist. Mercer believed that the industrial revolution was normalizing greed and obsessed with efficiency. He created his museum, in part, to testify to different values in the machine age.

Frassati Fridays are part of our curriculum for the same reasons. Are we the right school for you? Our next open house is in just a few days, on Thursday, February 18th, at 7pm. RSVP here. Invite a friend!

Here's our very first Frassati Friday ever, nearly four years ago. It was an Outward Bound ropes course in the Wissahickon, when today's seniors were ninth graders. Some of the same students are the singers in yesterday's video. YES!