Mater Dei Apostolate

Mater Dei is a Catholic lay apostolate committed to the education and formation of high school students, located in Duluth, Minnesota. Our vision is to create an oasis of Catholic culture in our society, where high school students can receive high-quality intellectual and spiritual formation, regardless of where they live or what they can pay. We operate a flexible hybrid education model to serve families from conventional school and homeschool backgrounds, with a remote component to serve families in distant, rural communities. We educate students with a classical curriculum rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition, while recognizing the role of parents as primary educators. Our mission is to provide higher education prep that is affordable, accessible and authentically Catholic.

We launched our program with 9th grade in the fall of 2019, adding an additional grade each year thereafter. We will welcome our first full 9-12th grade high school in the fall of 2022. With the support of our diocesan bishop, we are at the forefront of a movement to revitalize Catholic high school education in an innovative way.