Apostolate of the Order • II
An age that cannot say what a man is will not be able to teach him anything worth knowing. The education apostolate of the Order exists to hand on the Catholic intellectual tradition entire — not a sentimental residue of it, not a version edited to give no offence, but the thing itself, as it was received.
That tradition runs from the catechism a child learns at his mother’s knee to the summit of the Scholastics. It includes Scripture and the Fathers, the great Councils, the philosophy that taught Christendom to think, and the saints who show what the doctrine looks like when it is lived. It is an inheritance, and inheritances are lost in exactly one way: by the generation that fails to pass them on.
The Order does not pretend to neutrality. We do not teach that truth is a matter of preference, that the moral law bends to the century, or that the Faith is one option among many equally reasonable ones. We teach that Christ is King, that His Church teaches with His authority, and that a soul is at stake in the answer.
Nor will we hand children a diluted catechesis on the theory that they cannot bear the real thing. They can. They have always been able to. What they cannot bear is being given nothing and told it is everything.
"Instaurare omnia in Christo." — To restore all things in Christ. — Pope St. Pius X
Members teach. They catechise in parishes, assist families who educate at home, tutor those who have been failed by the schools, lead study of the Fathers and the Scholastics, and form the young in the Latin and the liturgy that are their birthright.
Members also learn. No one in this Order is excused from study on the grounds that he is finished; the formation of a member does not end at profession, and an apostolate of teaching cannot be sustained by the ignorant.
If you are called to teach — or to be taught — there is a place for you in this apostolate.