FSSP's St. Gregory's Academy

Gerald Augustinus, author of the Cafeteria is Closed, writes a nice note on St. Gregory's Academy, a boarding school for boys run by the FSSP. The Academy's website has this to say about the institution:

St. Gregory’s Academy is a Catholic boarding school for boys in northeastern Pennsylvania. We offer a unique, classical, liberal arts education to high school students from all over North America. In order to engage the imagination as the foundation for higher intellectual activity, St. Gregory’s students read some of the world’s best literature and history, memorize poetry and songs, and participate in a wide variety of cultural activities. The Academy boys have themselves given vocal and theatrical performances throughout the area and at the school. Reasoning skills are cultivated by means of such courses as Euclidean geometry, physics, and classical logic. Academic and cultural activities are balanced by soccer, rugby, hiking, camping and other physical activities, all of which build the body while at the same time providing pleasurable recreation. However, the center of life at St. Gregory’s Academy is our religion. Our students study, work, and live in an environment steeped in the spiritual and intellectual tradition of the Catholic Faith. At St. Gregory’s Academy, our students find more than simply an education, but also a way of life.

Of great interest is the Academy's emphasis on Religious Formation:

The center of life at St. Gregory’s is our Catholic Faith; our aim is the formation of Catholic gentlemen. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered daily in the traditional Latin rite by priests of the Fraternity of St. Peter, with the permission of the bishop of Scranton . The Rosary, prayers before meals, and access to Confession are a daily part of these young men’s lives. They also participate in Compline twice a week, days of recollection each semester, and all night Adoration quarterly. Underscoring all activities at the Academy is a spirit of reflection upon God, the Source of all that is good and true. Students are given full instruction in the doctrines and moral teachings of the Church, stressing orthodoxy and obedience to the Magisterium. The community life of the school gives the boys a unique opportunity to exercise the social virtues and to serve God through love of neighbor.

The students of St. Gregory’s become skilled altar servers while at the Academy, and have been invited to serve pontifical and other special Masses throughout the East Coast. The boys participate in singing Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony at High Masses and at other traditional liturgical activities such as Compline, Benediction, and processions of the Blessed Sacrament.

Through these means, St. Gregory’s makes a real contribution to the liturgical life of the Catholic Church in North America , and trains a new generation to participate with knowledge and devotion in the traditional Sacraments and ceremonies of the Church.

See the beautiful "home page" with its video to get a flavor of this distinct school. It seems to have great promise!