Academic Retreat for Teachers

The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education invites you to attend:

UNDERSTANDING THE CLASSICAL CURRICULUM
Academic Retreat for High School Teachers & Principals

• Revitalize your classroom teaching
• Engage your students in life-long learning habits
• See exciting results in your classroom
• Feed your own passion for growth and learning

In this week-long retreat, you will:

• Explore the foundations of classical liberal education
• Discuss the profound and practical refl ections of great thinkers on education
• Learn with like-minded colleagues in an atmosphere of refl ection and devotion
• Return to your classroom with a renewed joy in learning and with practical suggestions to share with your academic community

Discussions include:

• Monday: Christopher Dawson and the History of Western Education
• Tuesday: Sr. Miriam Joseph and Th e Trivium
• Wednesday: Euclid, Descartes and the Quadrivium
• Thursday: Newton, Democritus and Science
• Friday: “Wisdom” Subjects: Literature with Newman, History with Dawson, Th eology with JP II

PLUS: Seminars on Sophocles and Shakespeare, Lectures on Poetry and Music Directed by: Andrew T. Seeley, Ph.D. - Senior tutor at Th omas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California
with: Dave Fleischacker, Ph.D. - Chairman, Department of Philosophy & Th eology, University of St. Francis

Date: July 6 - 11 Location: University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Registration includes room, board and all materials for the entire week:

- EARLY Registration (by June 22): only $400

- AFTER June 22: $450

REGISTER ONLINE TODAY!!! http://www.catholicliberaleducation.org/

Or by check payable to: “Institute for Catholic Liberal Education” and mailed to:

ICLE Summer Academic Retreats, P.O. Box 4638, Ventura, California 93007-0638

Questions? 805.625.1817

For more information or to Register Online: http://www.catholicliberaleducation.org/

I was part of this retreat last year as a presenter. It was wonderful.

The Trinity in 1st John

I was taken aback the other day when I was reading the biblical reading from the Office of Readings and came across this passage: "Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in cælo: Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus Sanctus: et hi tres unum sunt. Et tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra: spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis: et hi tres unum sunt" (1 John 5:7-8). I did not recall such an explicit mention of the Trinity in 1 John or anywhere in the Bible except Mt. 28. So, I looked in both the old and new NAB and found out that the Trinitarian text is not there! It says in the RNAB: "So there are three that testify, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are of one accord." In the Nova Vulgata it says: "Quia tres sunt, qui testificantur: Spiritus et aqua et sanguis; et hi tres in unum sunt." Clearly there was an alternative reading at the time of St. Jerome that later scholarship has interpreted as a gloss. Also, clearly my copy of the Latin office doesn't use the Nova Vulgata. The current critical edition of the Greek text (NA26) does not have the Trinitarian language. Since I don't have my copy at work I can't look up the footnotes.

Still, it is an amazing passage when read in the way St. Jerome did. I wish it were canonical, because then my task in teaching about the Trinity to seminarians would be easier!

Fr. Anthony Taylor the new bishop of Little Rock

The pastor of my home parish in Oklahoma City, Sacred Heart, has been named the new bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas. Here's the story from the Sooner Catholic.

I've been acquainted with Fr. Taylor since he was Associate Pastor at Sacred Heart from 1980 to 1982. He is a wonderful, pastoral and courageous priest and a scholar to boot.

Servais Pinckaers, O.P., RIP

Dawn Eden notes that moral theologian Servais Pinckaers died. She provides space for a wonderful summery of Pinckaers' work by Brother James Brent, O.P.

I use Pinckaers' Morality: The Catholic View in my Introduction to Christian Morality course. His approach is very compatible with the CCC and with Veritatis spendor.

New Article in Homiletics and Pastoral Review

Here is a summary from their web page:

GREAT CATHOLIC WRITERS…The twentieth century was graced with many outstanding Catholic writers like Chesterton, Belloc, Ronald Knox, Flannery O’Connor and Tolkien, to name just a few. There was an immense flowering of Catholic writers between 1920 and 1960—roughly from World War I to Vatican II. What is it that makes a truly Catholic writer? In this issue Dr. Robert F. Gotcher asks that question and also gives an answer. According to his analysis, a truly great Catholic writer must be immersed in the following: 1) Scripture, 2) Latin, 3) St. Thomas Aquinas, 4) liturgy, and 5) two thousand years of Catholic cultural history. In addition the great writers, for the most part, had a personal devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, since she is the perfect model of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ.

St. John's Institute for Catholic Thought

At the University of Illinois, associated with the Newman Center.

Did you know about this? I didn't. I wonder if they have any openings.

Mission Statement
With an emphasis on the trinitarian and liturgical structure of creation, the St. John Institute of Catholic Thought School of Theology provides rigorous and comprehensive formation in Catholic theology.

School Objectives
The School of Theology seeks to imbue the student with a robust knowledge of the Catholic intellectual tradition. It endeavors to develop in the student an integrated view of knowledge in general and Catholic theology in particular. It attempts to develop the intellectual skills needed to understand and articulate the harmony between faith and reason. Finally, it works to develop critical thinking skills in each student.

An Easter Hymn

Song: O Filii et Filiae

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Men:
O filii et filiae,
Rex coelestis, Rex gloriae
morte surrexit hodie. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Women:
Et Maria Magdalene,
et Iacobi, et Salome
Venerunt corpus ungere. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Men:
In albis sedens angelus
praedixit mulieribus:
In Galilea est Dominus. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Women:
Discipulis astantibus,
in medio stetit Christus,
dicens: Pax vobis omnibus. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.