Like many other students of Latin over the past 2,000 years, I struggled as a young man to understand Virgil’s great epic poem, the Aeneid. I have vivid memories of my wonderful Latin teacher, Father John Cerf, 80 at the time he taught me, eloquently holding forth on the splendid rhythms and cadences of the poem and trying, with only mild success, to get me to translate it into passable English.
Editor’s note: Every family needs a support system, and this is especially true of Catholic families in a secularized culture. Kelly Henson is a writer, wife and homeschooling mother of four from Greensboro. Through stories and tips, she will hand you a dose of hope and show you that it’s possible to integrate a lively faith with every day family life in the modern world.