The St. Nicholas Guild is Gregory the Great Academy’s corps of monthly givers who have banded together to support Catholic education and preserve Christian culture through their commitment to the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
The Gregory the Great Academy Christmas Juggling Show for 2025 presents a unique, whimsical and even risky blend of two landmark Christmas events: the composition of the hymn Silent Night and the “Christmas Truce” observed during the First World War.
Auditorium / January 5, 2026
Gregory the Great Academy invites you to experience our most recent annual Service of Advent Lessons and Carols, a longstanding tradition at the Academy that marks the anticipation of Christ’s coming.
Auditorium / January 5, 2026
Catholic educator John Senior said that an honest school will have boys who become “sailing-ship sailors or horse-riding cowboys because those are the only noble callings.” In a world wed to falsehood, the love of truth belongs to outlaws and rovers. The boys of Gregory the Great Academy are singing sailors and cowboys, and seek the rest, the home, that beauty grants.
Auditorium / August 29, 2025
Alumnus Jonathan Kuplack recently returned to the Academy to speak to the students about his unique running pilgrimage and his larger mission to recover Christian masculinity. Johnny's pilgrimage began in California, crossed the U.S., and ended at the Shrine of the North American Martyrs on Divine Mercy Sunday. During this cross-country odyssey, dubbed the Via Magna, he ran 35 miles a day for 100 days and lived out of a camper donated by his Christian sponsors.
Classroom / May 14, 2025
This past Christmas, the Saint Julian’s Juggling Troupe put on an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s story Gabriel Grubb for the Academy’s annual Lessons and Carols celebration. In this precursor to A Christmas Carol, Grubb, like his literary descendent Ebenezer Scrooge, reforms himself after enduring three otherworldly visitors on Christmas Eve. But the Juggling Troupe added a twist: what if the old curmudgeon never learned his lesson?
Auditorium / January 31, 2025
In 2009, Gregory the Great Academy organized an effort to capture where the music of the school had ventured over the years and over the country for a cross section of alumni. These alumni had pursued the folk traditions they learned at the Academy in their own lives and in their own ways. In a project that spanned a whole year, different groups of alumni traveled to the Academy to make a recording that expressed a more developed, mature mode of folk song that grew out of the fresh youthful repertoire they learned as boys.
Auditorium / September 25, 2024
As part of the Graduation festivities, Mr. Williams directed an incredible performance of The Zoo, a comical one-act opera with music by Arthur Sullivan of “Gilbert and Sullivan” fame. The cast included students from the Academy and young ladies from faculty families and the surrounding Catholic community.
Auditorium / August 29, 2024
The freshmen this year were one of the best groups of jugglers we have ever seen in first-year students. They put those talents on display in a light-hearted look at the life of Don Bosco, written by head dorm father, Declan Hamilton. Music and juggling were performed solely by the the Freshman class.
Auditorium / August 29, 2024
The school said their goodbye to the class of 2024 with profound remarks from Mr. Culley and Valedictorian Marty Irwin.
Auditorium / August 29, 2024
This year, members of the class of 2024 formed a guild with Sean Fitzpatrick to produce a short film based on the classic short story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) by Herman Melville. Together, they read and discussed the text, established an interpretation and theme, conceived an adaptation into a different but fitting context, created storyboards, costume concepts, shooting schedules, props and sets, and hired a professional videographer.
Auditorium / May 31, 2024
Auditorium / January 5, 2026
The Gregory the Great Academy Christmas Juggling Show for 2025 presents a unique, whimsical and even risky blend of two landmark Christmas events: the composition of the hymn Silent Night and the “Christmas Truce” observed during the First World War.
Auditorium / January 5, 2026
Gregory the Great Academy invites you to experience our most recent annual Service of Advent Lessons and Carols, a longstanding tradition at the Academy that marks the anticipation of Christ’s coming.
Auditorium / August 29, 2025
Catholic educator John Senior said that an honest school will have boys who become “sailing-ship sailors or horse-riding cowboys because those are the only noble callings.” In a world wed to falsehood, the love of truth belongs to outlaws and rovers. The boys of Gregory the Great Academy are singing sailors and cowboys, and seek the rest, the home, that beauty grants.
Classroom / May 14, 2025
Alumnus Jonathan Kuplack recently returned to the Academy to speak to the students about his unique running pilgrimage and his larger mission to recover Christian masculinity. Johnny's pilgrimage began in California, crossed the U.S., and ended at the Shrine of the North American Martyrs on Divine Mercy Sunday. During this cross-country odyssey, dubbed the Via Magna, he ran 35 miles a day for 100 days and lived out of a camper donated by his Christian sponsors.
Auditorium / January 31, 2025
This past Christmas, the Saint Julian’s Juggling Troupe put on an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s story Gabriel Grubb for the Academy’s annual Lessons and Carols celebration. In this precursor to A Christmas Carol, Grubb, like his literary descendent Ebenezer Scrooge, reforms himself after enduring three otherworldly visitors on Christmas Eve. But the Juggling Troupe added a twist: what if the old curmudgeon never learned his lesson?
Auditorium / September 25, 2024
In 2009, Gregory the Great Academy organized an effort to capture where the music of the school had ventured over the years and over the country for a cross section of alumni. These alumni had pursued the folk traditions they learned at the Academy in their own lives and in their own ways. In a project that spanned a whole year, different groups of alumni traveled to the Academy to make a recording that expressed a more developed, mature mode of folk song that grew out of the fresh youthful repertoire they learned as boys.
Auditorium / August 29, 2024
As part of the Graduation festivities, Mr. Williams directed an incredible performance of The Zoo, a comical one-act opera with music by Arthur Sullivan of “Gilbert and Sullivan” fame. The cast included students from the Academy and young ladies from faculty families and the surrounding Catholic community.
Auditorium / August 29, 2024
The freshmen this year were one of the best groups of jugglers we have ever seen in first-year students. They put those talents on display in a light-hearted look at the life of Don Bosco, written by head dorm father, Declan Hamilton. Music and juggling were performed solely by the the Freshman class.
Auditorium / August 29, 2024
The school said their goodbye to the class of 2024 with profound remarks from Mr. Culley and Valedictorian Marty Irwin.
Auditorium / May 31, 2024
This year, members of the class of 2024 formed a guild with Sean Fitzpatrick to produce a short film based on the classic short story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) by Herman Melville. Together, they read and discussed the text, established an interpretation and theme, conceived an adaptation into a different but fitting context, created storyboards, costume concepts, shooting schedules, props and sets, and hired a professional videographer.
