Sunday, July 30, 2006

Rome students talk St. Thomas Aquinas...!



Catholic graduate students have fun conversations in Rome over cena! Is this the Angelicum table where only Thomas was talked about? Was the shared discussion all about the new revival of scholarly research concerning Medieval thought or of the Thomists of the 20th century: Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain or of how Vatican Council II singled out Aquinas for favorable mention in its decrees on seminaries and Catholic education or how the 1983 Code of Canon Law directed that seminarians take St. Thomas as "their teacher in a special way?" I was at the Gregoriana (Jesuit) table...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Two interesting posts:

"(G)rowing up with the emasculated liturgies of the '70s and '80s... Why do some still seek to take the masculine vigor/spirit out of the/our liturgical patrimony... The virility of the Roman Rite is a gift from the Church... a manly, virile Mass..."

"Too bad we can only see the all hallowed cappa magna with lace rochet in a museum today! ...Don't forget to order the ermine mozzetta for winter and silk one for summer! Purple wool for bishops and scarlet watered silk for cardinals!"

Compare and contrast...