Charter – Joseph Lane Farm & Academy

Following is the charter for the Joseph Lane Farm and Academy, established July of 2012. Joe Anderson, the editor and primary contributor to this online journal also serves as the headmaster of the JLF&A. The Academy has two students and one faculty member.

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Established to serve as a path of holiness for her members, Joseph Lane Farm and Academy will provide a daily regimen of prayer, study, work and leisure aimed at the pursuit of our three fundamental values; Truth, Goodness and Beauty. We will embrace these values and seek a profound encounter with their Author, which encounter will lead to a relationship both radical and enduring, in this life and the next.

To achieve these ends we will strive individually and as a family to:

  • Grow in confident abandon to the Will of the Author.
  • Form our members in freedom according to our discernment of His Will:
    • Spiritual, moral, human and intellectual formation.
  • Cultivate our sense of wonder.
  • Nurture docility in our relationships with God and each other.
  • Explore Creation together.
  • Fully and effectively participate in Creation.
  • Immerse ourselves in the works of those who have best participated in Creation (writers and artists) or studied and described Creation (scientists and mathematicians).
  • Develop our artistic, literary, analytical and rhetorical talents.
  • Study history in order to understand the challenges, successes and failures of those who have preceded us.
  • Prepare all members but particularly the youngest to live in the world well:
    • Grow in virtue (love, humility, honesty, purity, obedience).
    • Express themselves clearly and with gentility.
  • Maximize our freedom to pursue these ends:
    • Reduce time constraints – freedom from imposed schedules.
    • Economic freedom – reduce needs and dependencies.
    • Freedom to engage culture on our own terms.

Caritas in Veritate

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