I was reminded last weekend that I did not post anything... such are the demands on a postulant's discretionary time!
It has been a substantial two weeks academically - we finished Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus' Agamemnon, tore through the Pre-Socratic philosophers up through the Atomists, explored the first few chapters of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovered "Potency and Act" according to Aristotle with commentary by St. Thomas Aquinas and struggled with Heraclitus and Parmenides' misconceptions regarding change. Oh, and, in Latin, we covered the first two declensions in full, with prepositions and adverbs, and the essential (actually, existential) verb 'sum, esse, fui, futurus' in the present, imperfect, and future indicative tenses (with the genitive of possession and the dative of possession, how will I ever properly express ownership?).
Br. John and I cooked up a nice Asian dish last Saturday: egg rolls, won ton soup, and a beef stir fry with snow peas and bok choy; tonight, Chris and Br. Steve made us gyros - goes with all the Greek I'm learning with my Latin... no, I'm not confused at all.
Last Tuesday, we were able to attend the episcopal ordination of two new bishops for Boston at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross). It was awesome to see all the bishops in attendance, including a bishop of the Ukrainian Rite and Metropolitan Methodios of the Greek Orthodox Church. This past Monday, we touched bases with the Young Adults' group here at St. Clements, and today, we took an amazing walking tour of Boston with freshmen from Thomas More College in Merrimack, NH... I will be sore tomorrow.
Tomorrow, we have a planning meeting at St. Brigid in South Boston with the Confirmation teachers with whom we will be working each Sunday.
I've been taking lots of pictures, so I'll put them online soon - be ready!
Love the Immaculata!
Mariam cogita, Mariam invoca
3 comments:
We're learning about Agamemnon in Greek Myth right now (I remember thinking how cool his name was). Brutish man, he is. Didn't read the actual story, but it sounds fun. Anyway, Agamemnon was the first of a trilogy. Are you guys getting to the other two?
Nice! As for the other two tragedies in the trilogy, we are not assigned to read them; we reviewed how they all relate, though, to understand how the Greek tragedies were written and the cultural and religious significance they had in their time.
Good grief, you're busy. I'm so interested in the stuff you're learning. Thanks for sharing!
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