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2009-2010

The Seminary of the Society of St. John of the Cross

Our Programme Loyal to the Church On May 5, 1907 on the Feast of Pope St. Pius V, the Holy father Pius X

ordered a significant reform of seminary programmes. As such, for a

graduate of the seminary to be considered prepared for ordination,

three areas of studies must have been covered: Gymnasium, Lyceum &

Theology.

A. The Gymnasium or Undergraduate Degree

The Holy father required that prospective seminarians receive post-

secondary education that civil authorities would recognize for non-

religious vocations. He desired that "the programmes in use represent

in the eyes of society the development of culture which is required

today, and as a result public opinion holds in higher esteem those who

have been educated according to them, and to reject them would be to

put the clergy, at least in the eyes of many, in a position of

inferiority to laymen." Consequently, the seminary courses are

delivered at the post-graduate level of academic study.

Students are expected to have fulfilled the additional requirement of

receiving 40 hours minimum of Catechetical Instruction per year.

B. Lyceum.

The purpose of this stage--to be attempted after the secular degree,

or alongside--is to prepare the candidate for the intellectual rigor

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demanded in the advanced studies of Theology. The focus of the studies

is philosophy, both classical and religious. This leads to a Lyceal

Licentiate after passing a comprehensive examination, either paper or

auricular-based before the Prefect of Studies and his or her board of

examiners.

As well, students, over the 3 year period of this stage, students are

to have received 40 hours minimum per year of Religious Instruction.

C. Theology. In addition to subjects traditionally covered, the Holy

Father ordered seminaries to offer a deepening of the studies in

Biblical exegesis, Sacred Eloquence, as well as Archaeology and Art as

it relates to the study of God. This 4 year programme leads to a

Licentiate of Theology after the student passes a comprehensive

examination, either paper or auricular-based before the Prefect of

Studies and his or her board of examiners.

Prerequisite Studies

Direct Entry into Licentiate of Theology Programme: Educated to degree standard from a recognized university, and

including the following courses: psychology, logic, general

metaphysics, ethics and Latin.

Entry into Lyceal Conversion Year: Educated to degree standard but lacking the prerequisites as mentioned

above.

Lyceal Conversion Year

Class 1: Introduction to Psychology psychology introduction; idea of life; nature of living being; origin of organic life; nature of animal

life; sensuous appetition & the sensuous appetite; spontaneous movement; origin of sensuous

life; nature of the human soul; intellectual cognition; volition & the will; comparative psychology

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of animal & man; the senses & reason; the will & other influences; spiritual character of the

rational soul; the ego a substantial unit composed of rational soul & body; origin of human soul;

destiny of man,

Textbook: A MANUAL OF MODERN SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY VOL. 1 by CARDINAL

MERCIER

Class 2: Introduction to Logic The logic of terms; extension and intension; extension & denotation; real, verbal & formal

propositions; negative names & relative names; import of judgments & propositions; kinds of

judgments & propositions; the opposition of propositions; immediate inferences; the

diagrammatic representation of propositions; propositions in extension & in intension; logical

equations & the quantification of the predicate; the existential import of categorical propositions;

conditional & hypothetical propositions; disjunctive propositions; rules of the syllogism; figures &

moods of the syllogism; the reduction of syllogisms; diagrammatic representation of syllogisms;

conditional & hypothetical syllogisms; disjunctive syllogisms; irregular & compound syllogisms;

problems on the syllogism; the characteristics of inference; examples of arguments & fallacies;

the doctrine of division; the fundamental laws of thought; the combination of terms; complex

propositions & compound reasoning; immediate inferences from complex propositions; the

combination of complex propositions; inferences from combinations of complex propositions;

the inverse problem;

Textbook: STUDIES AND EXERCISES IN FORMAL LOGIC by JOHN NEVILLE

KEYNES, M.A., Sc.D.

Class 3: Introduction to Metaphysics Metaphysics Introduction; substance & its accidents; actual being & potential being; created

beings & the uncreated being; unity of the object in metaphysics; general outline of the causes

of being; analysis of the four causes; relations of the four causes to one another; general effect

of the causes;

Textbook: A MANUAL OF MODERN SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY VOL. 1 by CARDINAL

MERCIER

Class 4: Introduction to Ethics general ethics-a theory of good & evil; the natural end of man; the last end of human nature;

free-will; the moral order; conscience; rights of the individual; rights of members of the family;

rights of the state;

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A MANUAL OF MODERN SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY VOL. II: by CARDINAL MERCIER

Class 5: Introduction to Philosophy history of philosophy introduction; of India & china; pre-Socratic philosophy; Greek philosophy

from Socrates to Aristotle; from the death of Aristotle to the rise of the neo-platonic school; neo-

Platonism & systems leading up to it; patristic philosophy; first period of mediaeval philosophy;

mediaeval philosophy in the thirteenth century; mediaeval philosophy in the fourteenth & first

half of the fifteenth century; modern philosophy before Kant; the philosophy of Kant; post-

Kantian philosophy; French philosophy from the revolution to the middle of the nineteenth

century; English philosophy of the nineteenth century; Italian & Spanish philosophy

A MANUAL OF MODERN SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY VOL. II: by CARDINAL MERCIER

Class 6: Introduction to Basic & Intermediate Latin pronunciation; accentuation; parts of speech; absence of articles; cases of nouns; adjectives;

pronouns; verbs; other parts of speech; transposition of words. Examples: benediction, key

parts of the mass, serving the mass, various prayers & offices; Exercises & orthography;

orthoepy; etymology; syntax; prosody.

Textbook 1: THE CATHOLIC'S LATIN INSTRUCTOR IN THE PRINCIPAL CHURCH

OFFICES & DEVOTIONS by Rev. E. Caswell

Textbook 2 A GRAMMAR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE by E.A. Andrews & S.

Stoddard

Textbook 3 LATIN EXERCISES ADAPTED TO ANDREWS & STODDARS'S LATIN

GRAMMAR by Prof. A.E. Andrews

Theology

Year 1

Class 1: Loci Theologici, or Intro to Dogmatic Theology Human Reason Can Know God; The Positive Teaching of Revelation; The Idea of God Not

Inborn; The Facts of the Supernatural Order Considered as Premises for Unaided Reason; The

Supernatural Facts as a Preamble to; Traditionalism a False System; The Possibility of

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Atheism; The Quality of Man s Knowledge of God According to Divine Revelation; The

Threefold Mode of Knowing God Here on Earth; Theological Conclusions; The Reality and the

Supernatural Character of the Intuitive Vision of God; The Light of Glory as a Necessary

Medium for the Intuitive Vision of God; The Beatific Vision in its Relation to the Divine

Incomprehensibility; The Heresy of the Eunomians; Why Ontologism is Untenable; The Biblical

Names of God; The Essence of God in its Relation to His Attributes; The Heresy of Gilbert de la

Porree & the Heresy of Eunomius and the Nominalists; The Formalism of the Scotists; The

Virtual Distinction Between God's Essence and His Attributes; The Metaphysical Essence of

God; God's Transcendental Attributes of Being; God s Perfection; God s Infinity; God s Intrinsic

Unity; God s Absolute Simplicity; God s Unicity, or Monotheism and its Antitheses : Polytheism

and Dualism; God as Ontological Truth; God as Logical Truth, or Absolute Reason; God as

Moral Truth, or His Veracity and God as Ontological Goodness; God s Ethical Goodness, or

Sanctity; God s Moral Goodness, or Benevolence; God s Categorical Attributes of Being; The

Attributes of Divine Life Divine Knowledge; Omniscience as God s Knowledge of Vision of all

Contingent Beings Cardiognosis; Omniscience as God s Foreknowledge of; Omniscience as

God s Foreknowledge of the Conditionally Free Acts of the Future, or the "Scientia Media;" The

Attributes of Divine Life The Divine Will; God s Justice; God s Mercy.

Textbook: Dogmatic Theology Vol 1 by THE REVEREND JOSEPH POHLE, PH.D.,

D.D.

Class 2: General Introduction to Sacred Scripture

I Survey of the Old Testament:

Number, order & arrangement of the books; preservation; biblical history; code of Hammurabi;

the Moabite stone; Siloam inscription; the assouan papyri; inspiration; formation of the canon of

the Old testament; Hebrew poetry; senses of holy scripture; messianic prophecies; parable in

the old testament; miracles of the old testament; the Samaritan Pentateuch; Greek versions;

Latin versions; principle early versions; bible in the British isles; of heathen nations surrounding

Israel; Hebrew notions of time; the calendar; the high priests; he sacrifices; moneys, coins &

weights; Hebrew measures; the historical books of the bible; the sapiential & poetical books;

prophetical books; in between testaments books; pertinent decrees of biblical commission

Textbook: AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE VOL 1, THE OLD TESTAMENT by

Rev. Hugh Pope, Op, Stm, Dsscr

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II Survey of the New Testament

history of the Jewish people BC 142 to AD 70, roman emperors, procurators in Palestine,

Jewish life in the time of Christ, Palestine in the time of Christ, languages spoken in the time of

Christ, of the new testament in general, the canon of the new testament, the Greek testament,

principal versions of the new testament, textual criticism, gospel of Matthew, gospel of mark,

gospel of john, parables and miracles, the synoptic problem, harmony of the gospels

Textbook: AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE VOL 2, THE NEW TESTAMENT

GOSPELS Rev. Hugh Pope, Op, Stm, Dsscr

Supplementary: AN EXPOSITION OF THE EPISTLES OF ST PAUL AND OF THE

CATHOLIC EPISTLES VOLS 1 & 2 by the Right Rev. John Macevilly, Dd

Supplementary: INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ST JOHN

by DR JOHN H. A. EBRARD.

Class 3: Biblical Exegesis Inspiration, The Mosaic Law, The Prophets, Christ in the New Testament, The Organized

Church in the New Testament, St. Jerome the Interpreter, The Supposed Origin of Tobit:

Genesis of a Myth.

Textbook: THE RELIGION OF THE SCRIPTURES by Various Papers delivered

The Gospels in the Roman Missal Textbook: ANALYSIS OF THE GOSPELS FOR THE SUNDAYS OF THE YEAR by Rev.

L. A. Lambert, Ll.D.,

Class 4: Hebrew Letters, sounds & signs; peculiarities & changes of letters & words; servile letters; the prefixes;

the articles; cases of nouns & pronouns; of the pronouns; of the verb; the regular verb,

explanation of second paradigm; the gutturals; the suffixes of the verb; irregular verbs; nouns,

their declensions; particles; syntax, essentials of a sentence; syntax, parts of speech; syntax &

pronouns; syntax, the verb; syntax, the participle; interjections; paradigms; chrestomathy.

Textbook: A New Practical Hebrew Grammar with Hebrew-English &

English-Hebrew Exercises and a Hebrew Chrestomathy by Solomon Deutsch,

AM, PhD

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Textbook: The Book of Psalms in Hebrew & English

Year 2

Class 1: Dogmatic Theology

Part I

The Holy Trinity in unity, or threefold personality of God; God s Threefold Personality Proved

from Sacred Scripture; Of God the Father; Of God the Son; Of God the Holy Ghost; The

Blessed Trinity in Tradition; Crass Monarchianism; The Modalism of Sabellius; The

Subordinationism of Arius and Macedonius; The Holy Trinity in the Official Liturgy of the Early

Church and the Private Prayers of the Faithful; The Ante-Nicene Fathers; The Nicene and Post-

Nicene Fathers; The Principle of the Blessed Trinity, or the Doctrine of the Immanent

Processions in the Godhead; The Heresy of the Greek Schism and its Condemnation by the

Church; The Positive Teaching of Revelation; The Speculative Theological Development of the

Dogma of the Trinity; Oneness of Nature, or the Consubstantiality of the Three Divine Persons;

Oneness of External Operation of the Three Divine Persons; The Unity of Mutual Inexistence, or

Perichoresis.


D.D.

Part II

The Beginning of the World, or Creation as a Production out of Nothing; Demonstration from

Sacred Scripture; The Heresies of Dualism and Pantheism; The Divine Idea of the Cosmos as

the Exemplary Cause of Creation; Creation in its Relation to the Trinity; Creation as a Free

Divine Act; Creation in Time; The Incommunicability of God s Creative Power; The Continued

Existence of the Created Universe or Divine Preservation and Concurrence; The Final Cause or

End of Creation, and Divine Providence; Dogmatic Cosmology; The Mosaic Account of the

Creation and Physical Science; The Hexaemeron and Exegesis; The Nature of Man; The Origin

of Man and the Unity of the Human Race; The Essential Constituents of Man and Their Mutual

Relationship; The Immortality of the Human Soul; Origin of the Soul; Nature and the

Supernatural; Definition of the Supernatural; The Prerogatives That Constitute the Supernatural

Order; Man s Supernatural Endowment in Paradise; Various Heresies vs. the Dogmatic

Teaching of the Church in Regard to the State of Original Justice; The Different States of Man,

and the State of Pure Nature in Particular; The Sin of Adam Considered as the First Sin, and its

Effects on Our Proto-Parents; The Sin of Adam Considered as Original Sin in the Technical

Sense of the Term; The Nature of Original Sin; How Original Sin is Transmitted; The Penalties

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of Original Sin; Existence, Nature, Number, and Hierarchy of the Angels; Existence and Nature

of the Angels; Number and Hierarchy of the Angels; The Supernatural Endowment of the

Angels; The Angels in Their Relation to Men, or the Guardian Angels; The Apostasy of a

Number of the Angels; The Fallen Angels or Demons; The Demons in Their Relation to the

Human Race.


D.D.

Class 2: The Sacraments A sacrament defined; the composition of the sacramental rites; the efficacy of the sacraments;

the sacramental character; the number of sacraments; the divine institution of the sacraments;

the intention of the minister & the recipient

Textbook: THEOLOGY OF THE SACRAMENTS A STUDY IN POSITIVE THEOLOGY BY

THE VERY REV P. POURRAT, V.G.

Class 3: Moral theology

Moral Theology I Definition and Scope of Moral Theology; Moral Theology in its Relation to Dogmatic Theology; The Difference between

Catholic Moral Theology and Protestant Ethics; Moral Theology in its Relation to Moral Philosophy; The Object of

Catholic Moral Theology; Individual vs. Social Ethics; The Sources of Moral Theology; The Methods of Moral Theology;

History and Literature of Moral Theology; Division of Moral Theology; Morality, its subject, norm and object; The

Objective Norm of Morality Law, Divine and Human; The Subjective Norm of Morality Conscience; The Subjective-

Objective Norm of Morality ;The Object of Morality Human Acts; Moral Habits 275

Textbook: A HANDBOOK OF MORAL THEOLOGY Vol. I. by ANTONY KOCH, D.D.

Moral Theology II Nature and Origin of Sin Mortal and Venial; Sins Temptations and Occasions of Sin; The Principal Kinds of Sin; The

Causes of Moral Regeneration; The Sacraments as Divinely Instituted Means of Grace; Contrition; The Purpose of

Amendment; Confession; Questioning and Instructing Penitents; The Seal of Confession; Sacramental Absolution;

Sacramental Satisfaction; Extreme Unction; Holy Orders; Matrimony; The Sacramentals.

Textbook: A HANDBOOK OF MORAL THEOLOGY Vol. 2. by ANTONY KOCH, D.D.

Moral Theology III

Nature and Obligation of Christian Self-Love; The Moral Significance of the Body; The Care of

the Body; Negative Duties in Regard to Life and Health; Positive Duties in Regard to Life and

Health; The Duty of Developing the Mind; Choice of a Vocation and Faithful Perseverance in the

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Chosen Vocation; The Duty of Labor; Right and Duty of Acquiring and Possessing Property;

Duties in Regard to Honor.

Textbook: A HANDBOOK OF MORAL THEOLOGY Vol. 3. by ANTONY KOCH, D.D.

Class 4: Greek

New Testament Greek

The alphabet; breathings, iota subscript, reading; reading practices; declensions of nouns and

adjectives; the definite article; nouns in second declension; nouns in first declension; the verb-

present tense; the verb-future tense; third declension; the verb-past tenses; the verb-past

tenses; infinitives and participles; the verb-perfect & pluperfect tenses; the verb-middle voice;

the verb-passive voice; the verb-subjunctive mood; contracted verbs; the imperative mood;

adjectives; comparison of adjectives, adverbs; prepositions; numerals; pronouns; use of the

infinitive; use of participles; conditional sentences; optative; vocabulary to memorize Textbook: TEACH YOURSELF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK by D.F. Hudson, MA

Textbook: A SHORT GRAMMAR OF CLASSICAL GREEK by Adolf Kaegi, PhD

Year 3

Class 1: Patrology Meaning and Object of Patrology; Importance of Patrology; History of Patrology; Division of

Patrology; Notion and Definition of the Terms Ecclesiastical Writer, Father, Doctor;

Ecclesiastical Writers; Fathers of the Church; Doctors of the Church; Authority of the Fathers in

General; Authority of Single Fathers; Authority of the Fathers in Matters of Faith and Morals;

Authority of the Fathers in the Interpretation of Holy Scripture;Authority of the Fathers in

Ascetical and Pastoral Theology; Relation of the Fathers to Holy Scripture and the Church;

Notion of Criticism; Causes of Substitution, Interpolation and Loss of Patristic Works; Criteria, or

Marks of Genuineness and Spuriousness; Rules for the Application of Criticism; Use of the

Fathers in General; Use in Matters of Dogma; Use in Morals and Ascetics; Use in Biblical

Exegesis; Selection of Fathers; Preliminary Conditions to Profitable Use; Means and Ways of

Using the Fathers; Means Necessary for Understanding the Fathers; Causes of Difficulties;

Scientific Means; Literary Means; Age* of the Apostolic Fathers till A. D. 150; The Apostolic

Fathers; Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles; St. Barnabas, Apostle; St. Clement of Rome; Hernias;

St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch; St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna; St. Papias, Bishop of

Hierapolis; The Unknown Author of the Epistle to Diognetus; Second epoch growth &

development of patristic literature; Greek Fathers and Writers; Apologists; St. Justin, Martyr;

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Tatian, the Assyrian; Athenagoras, the Philosopher; St. Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch; Lesser

Apologists; Controversialists; St. Irenseus, Bishop of Lyons; Cajus, the Roman Presbyter; St.

Hippolytus; St. Archelaus of Cascar (Carrae); Commentators; Pantaenus; Clement of

Alexandria; Origen; Friends of Origen St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, St. Pamphilus, St. Dionysius,

the Great; St. Methodius, Bishop of Olympus; Tertullian, Presbyter of Carthage; Minucius Felix;

St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage; Popes Cornelius, Stephen, Dionysius; Novatian, Schismatic;

Arnobius; Lactantius Firmianus; Third epoch full growth of patristic literature; Eusebius of

Caesarea; St. Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria; St. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria; St.

Ephrem, the Syrian; St. Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem; St. Basil, the Great, Archbishop of

Cresarea; St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop of Sasima; St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa; Diodor,

Bishop of Tarsus; Theodore of Mopsuestia; Polychromiua of Apamea; Didymus, the Blind; St.

Macarius, the Great, of Egypt; St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis; St. Chrysostom, Patriarch of

Constantinople; Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais; St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria; Theodoret,

Bishop of Cyrus; St. Isidore, Bishop of Pelusium; St. Nilus, the Elder; St. Mesrop; Bishop Eznik;

Elishe, the Hermit; Dionysius, the Areopagite; St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers; St. Pacianus,

Bishop of Barcelona; St. Optatus, Bishop of Mileve; Popes St. Julius I., St. Damasus I., St.

Siricius; St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan; Rufinus, Presbyter of Aquileja; St. Jerome; St,

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; Sulpicius Severus; St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola; John Cassian,

Priest and Abbot of Marseilles; St. Prosper of Aquitaine; St. .Vincent of Lerins; St. Eucherius,

Bishop of Lyons; St. Hilary, Archbishop of Aries; Salvianus, Presbyter of Marseilles; St. Leo, the

Great, Pope; St. Peter Chrysologus, Archbishop of Ravenna; Christian Poets; fourth epoch

decline of patristic literature; A. D. 461 c. 700; Causes of Decline; St. John Climacus, Abbot; St.

Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem; St. Maximus, Abbot and Confessor; St. Anastasius Sinaita,

Priest and Monk; St. John Damascene; St. Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspe; St. Ennodius, Bishop

of Pavia; Boethius, Senator and Roman Patrician; Cassiodorius, Statesman and Abbot; St.

Csesarius, Archbishop of Aries; St. Benedict, Abbot and Founder of the Benedictine Order; St.

Gregory, Bishop of Tours; Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers; St. Gregory, the Great,

Pope; St. Isidore, Archbishop of Seville

Textbook: A Manual of Patrology by JOHN CUTHBKRT HEDLEY, O. S. B.,

Class 2: Ecclesiastical History

Church History I: From BC to Boniface VII

State of Religion and Morality among the Jewish People; Lights and Shadows of Heathenism;

Jesus Christ. The God-Man; Foundation of the Church; Pentecost; Admission of Jews and

Gentiles into the Church; Conversion and Apostolic Labors of St. Paul; Apostolic Labors of St.

Peter and of the other Apostles; Dissolution of the Jewish Nation. Destruction of Jerusalem;

Spread of Christianity in the First Three Centuries;. Causes of the Rapid Spread of Christianity.

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Obstacles retarding its Progress; Condition of the Church in the Roman Empire. Persecution of

the Christians; Persecutions from Nero to Decius; Persecutions from Decius to Diocletian;

Christian Martyrdom; Scientific Attacks upon the Church by the Pagan Polemic Writers;

Defense of the Christian Religion by the Apologists; The Church. Clergy and Laity. Priests and

Bishops;. Election and Functions of the Bishops. Other Ecclesiastical Offices. Education and

Support of the Clergy; The Authority of the Metropolitan Synods; The Primacy; The Apostolic

Fathers; The Christian Writers of the Second Century; The Christian Writers of the Third

Century; Judaizing Heretics; Gnosticism; Different Forms of Gnosticism; Manichaeism; The

Anti-Trinitarian Sect; The Montanists and the Alogi. Chiliasm; Refutation of Heresies; Action and

Teaching of the Church respecting Heresy; The Holy Sacraments. Baptism and Confirmation;

Controversy on the Validity of Baptism when conferred by Heretics; Celebration of the Holy

Eucharist; The Sacrament of Penance. Penitential Discipline. Schism of Felicissimus and

Novatian; Matrimony. The Discipline of the Secret Sunday; Ecclesiastical Feasts; Contention

concerning the Festival of Easter; Fast Days. Places of Worship. Life of the Christians;

Christianity in the Individual Countries of Asia; The Christian Church in Africa; Paganism under

Constantine the Great and his Sons; Attempt at the Revival of Paganism under Julian the

Apostate; The Succeeding Emperors. Gradual Extinction of Paganism; Polemics of the Pagans;

Christian Apologists; Relations of the State to the Church. Influence of Christianity on

Legislation; Rights and Privileges of the Church; Influence of the State on the Interior Condition

of the Church; Increase in the Number of Ecclesiastical Officers. Education and Support of the

Clergy; Celibacy; Bishops, Metropolitans, and Patriarchs; The Primacy; The Oriental Fathers;

The Fathers of the West; The Donatist Schism. Schism of Meletius; Trinitarian Conflicts.

Arianism v Arianism under Constantius; Splits among the Arians: the Anomoeaus and the Semi-

Arians; Arianism in its Decline. The Luciferian and Meletian Schism. Apollinarians and

Macedonians; Gnostic-Manichaean Heresies. Priscillianists and Paulicians; Controversies

respecting Salvation (Soteriological). Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism; Christological

Controversies ; or, Controversies respecting the Person of Christ. Nestorianism;

Monophysitism; The Origenist Controversy, and the Quarrel on the Three Chapters;

Monothelitism; Holy Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist; Penance. Extreme Unction.

Ordination. Matrimony; Churches and their Ornaments. Liturgical Vestments; Veneration of

Saints. Pilgrimages and Processions; Fasting-Days. Charitable Institutions. Christian Life;

Monasticism; Migration of Nations; Christianity among the Goths. Condition of the Church in

Gaul and Spain; Condition of the Church among the Vandals in Africa; The Church among the

Burgundians. Ravages of the Huns; Condition of the Church in Italy among the Ostrogoths and

the Lombards; Conversion of the Franks; Christianity in the British Isles; Christianity in

Germany; Labors of St. Boniface; Conversion of the Saxons and the Avari; Christianity in the

North of Europe; Christianity among the Slavonic Nations. Conversion of the Magyars;

Mahometauism; Establishment of the States of the Church; The Apostolic See and

Charlemagne. The Roman Empire of the West; The Popes and the Caiiovingians; Tenth

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Century. Condition of the Apostolic See. The Saxon Emperors; The Popes and the Frankish

Emperors up to the Time of Gregory VII... Political Position of the Prelates. Advantages and

Disadvantages of this Position in regard to the Church; Royal Messengers. Church Property.

Guardians of Churches and Monasteries; The Bishop and his Diocese. Origin of the Cathedral

and Collegiate Chapters. Cardinals; Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals; The Primacy. Power and

Influence of the Popes; Meritorious Influence of the Apostolic See on Ecclesiastical Discipline.

Religious Affairs in Various Countries of Europe; The Order of St. Benedict; State of Knowledge

before Charlemagne; Learning under Charlemagne and his Successors; Controversy respecting

Images; The Greek Schism; Adoptionism; The Heresy of Gottschalk; Controversy on the Holy

Eucharist; The Holy Sacraments. Ecclesiastical Punishments; Veneration of the Saints; The

Clergy; Christian Life; The Crusades; Christianity in the Interior of Asia, especially in the Empire

of the Mongols; Christianity in the West. Conversion of the Pomeranians and of other Slavonic

Tribes; Christianity among the Finnish-Lettish Tribes. Conversion of the Lithuanians; Attempts

to convert the Mahometans. Fate of the Jews; Struggles of the Popes for the Liberty of the

Church. Gregory; Renewal of the Laws against Simony and Concubinage; Contest concerning

Investitures; Continuation of the Struggle. Successors of Gregory VII; Concordat of Worms;

Double Elections. Disturbances at Rome; Contests of the Apostolic See with the Caesarian

Papism of the Hohenstaufens. Popes Adrian and Alexander III. in Conflict with Frederic I;

Conflicts with the Church in England under William II. and Henry; The Archbishops Auselin and

Thomas a Becket; The Relation which the Hohenstaufens bore to the Church, under the

Successors of Alexander III; Pope Innocent III... Conflict of the Popes Honorius III., Gregory IX.,

and Innocent IV., with the Emperor Frederic II; The Popes from Innocent IV. to Boniface VIII.

Fall of the Hohenstaufens. Interregnum. French Influence on the Apostolic See; The Pontificate

of Boniface VIII.

Textbook:: HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, VOL 1 by Dr. Heinrich

Brueck

Church History II: From the Exile to Old Catholic Sects

The Exile of the Popes at Avignon. Popes Benedict XI. to Gregory XI., and the Relations they

bore to the several States of Europe; The Western Schism; The Council of Pisa; The Council of

Constance; The Popes Martin V. and Eugene IV., and the Councils of Siena and Basle; The last

Popes of this Epoch. Nicholas V. to Leo X; The Primacy; The other Members of the Hierarchy;

Religious Orders of Knights (Military Orders); The New Monastic Orders founded on the Rule of

St. Benedict and St. Augustine; The Orders devoted to the Special Veneration of Mary; Orders

founded expressly for taking Care of the Sick, and for other Objects of Charity; The two great

Mendicant Orders; Efficiency of these Orders. The Enmity they excited. Disputes and Party-

Divisions among themselves; The Universities. Scholasticism and Mysticism; The first Times of

Scholasticism; nourishing Period of Scholasticism; The Mystics; The Scholastics and Mystics

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towards the End of the Middle Ages; The several Branches of Learning; Studies of the

Humanists; Attempts to unite the Schismatic Greeks. The Smaller Sects of the East; The

Smaller Sects of the West; The Cathari (Albigenses and Waldenses); Ecclesiastical and

Spanish Inquisition; John Wycliffe and his Heresy; The Heresy of John Huss; The Holy

Eucharist. Penance; Churches and their Ornamentation. Religious Art; Church Hymns and

Canticles. Veneration of Saints; Various Forms of Superstition; Christian Instruction; Moral and

Religious Life; Retrospect concerning the Influence exercised by the Church in the Middle Ages;

Missions in India, Cochin China, Tonquin, Siam, Thibet, etc; Christianity in China and Japan,

and in Africa; Christian Missions in America; Outbreak of the Schism in Germany. Stand taken

by Luther against Indulgences. Measures taken by the Apostolic See; Disputation at Leipsic and

its Results; The Diet of Worms. Luther s Sojourn on the Wartburg. The Prophets of Zwickau.

Luther s Contest with them; Popes Adrian VI. and Clement VII. The two Diets at Nuremberg;

The Peasants War; Introduction of the Lutheran Heresy by several Princes of the Empire;

Luther s Organization of Divine Service. His Contest with Erasmus; The Treaty of Torgau. The

two Diets at Spire, in 1526 and 1529; The Diet at Augsburg, 1530. " Confessio Augustana."

Colloquies; The League of Schmalkald; Further Progress of Protestantism. Attempts at

Reunion; Bigamy of Philip of Hesse. Acts of Violence. Diets at Spire, 1542, 1544, and at

Ratisbon, 1546. Luther s Death. - His Character; The Sclmialkaldic War. Treaty of Passau.

Peace of Augsburg; The Reformation (so-called) in Switzerland. Ulrich Zwingli; The so-called

Reformation in French Switzerland. John Calvin; Protestantism in France; Protestantism in

France (continued). The Night of St. Bartholomew. The League. The Edict of Nantes. Its Repeal

under Louis XIV; Protestantism in the Netherlands; Apostasy of England from the Church; The

so-called Reformation in Scotland; The Catholic Church in Great Britain under the Stuarts; The

Sufferings of the Catholics in Ireland; Apostasy in Scandinavia; Protestantism in Livonia,

Courland, Poland, and Silesia; Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania; Relation between

the Catholics and Protestants in Germany. The Thirty Years War. The Peace of Westphalia;

General Remarks on the Propagation, Nature, and Effects of the Reformation; The Council of

Trent; Carrying into Effect the Reformatory Decrees of the Council of Trent; The Jesuits and the

Order of Capuchins; Other Orders and Congregations of this Era; Exertions of, and Enmity

towards, the Holy See; The so-called Gallican Liberties; The Popes of the Eighteenth Century.

Febronius; Josephism; Contest concerning the Nunciature. The Congress of Ems; Italy. The

Synod of Pistoja; The Theological Studies of this Period; The Errors of the so-called Reformers;

Contentions among the Protestants; The Smaller Protestant Sects; Controversies on the

Relation which Grace bears to Free- Will; Jansenism; Quesnel; The Schism of Utrecht;

Quietism; The Religious Condition of Germany after the Peace of Westphalia; Several Attempts

at Union; The Greco-Russian Church. Attempts at Union. The Older Sects of the East; Attacks

upon Christianity. English Deists. Freemasons; Philosophers in France; Protestant Rationalism;

Rationalism in Catholic Circles; Hostility to the Jesuits and Suppression of their Order; The

Celebration of Divine Worship. Christian Art. Religious Life; Missions in the East Indies, China,

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Japan, etc; The Catholic Church in the United States; Missions in Central America, the West

Indies, and South America, in Africa and Oceania; Missions in Turkey and Persia; Influence of

the French Revolution on Ecclesiastical Affairs; Restoration of Ecclesiastical Order in France.

Concordat of 1801; Napoleon and the Pope; The Catholic Church in Germany. Secularization;

The Catholic Church in Bavaria under Maximilian Joseph I. and Louis 1; Ecclesiastical Affairs in

Prussia. Troubles in Cologne; The Ecclesiastical Provinces of the Upper Rhine; The Condition

of Ecclesiastical Affairs in Austria under Francis II and Ferdinand 1; The Catholic Church in the

States of the German Alliance since the Year 1818; The Restoration. France under the

Bourbons. Louis Philippe. Emperor Napoleon III. The Republic; The Catholic Church in Spain

and Portugal; The Catholic Church in the Italian States; Ecclesiastical Affairs in Switzerland;

The Condition of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands; Persecutions of the Catholic Church in

Poland and Russia; Catholicity in Ireland; Revival of Catholicity in England and Scotland.

Restoration of the Hierarchy in both Countries; The Popes of the Nineteenth Century; The

(Ecumenical Council of the Vatican; Theological Science in the Nineteenth Century; Theological

Tendencies among Protestants; The Protestant Union and its Results. Several Shades in

Protestantism; Interior State of Protestantism. Sects; The Sect of the Rongeans and of the so-

called Old Catholics; The Schismatic Churches of the East; Divine Service. Christian Life.

Textbook: HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, VOL 2 by Dr. Heinrich Brueck

Class 3: Institutes of Canon Law

Canon Law I: Administrative Law

principles of ecclesiastical laws; customs; manner of reckoning time; rescripts; privileges;

dispensations; the clergy in general; manner of ascribing clergy to a diocese; rights & privileges

of clerics; obligations of clerics; ecclesiastical offices; ordinary & delegated jurisdiction;

reduction of clerics to lay state; the supreme authority & those who share by law; the roman

pontiff; the general council; the cardinals; the curia; roman congregations; legates of the pontiff;

patriarchs, primates & metropolitans; plenary and provincial councils; vicars & prefects

apostolic; administrators apostolic; inferior prelates; bishops; coadjutors & auxiliary bishops; the

diocesan synod; the diocesan curia; the vicar general; the chancellor, the notaries, the

Episcopal archives; synodal examiners & parochial consulters; chapters of canons; diocesan

consulters; obstruction in government, vacancy of the Episcopal see, the vicar capitular; deans;

pastors; parochial vicars; rectors of churches;

Textbook: THE NEW CANON LAW: A COMMENTARY AND SUMMARY OF THE NEW CODE

OF CANON LAW By Rev. STANISLAUS WOYWOD, O.F.M.

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Canon Law II: Religious & Organisations

erection & suppression of a religious organization, province, or a house; superiors & chapters;

confessors & chaplains; temporal goods & their administration; admission into a religious

community; postulate; novitiate; conditions for admission; education of the novices; religious

profession; studies in clerical religious communities; duties of religious; privileges of religious;

duties & privileges of a religious promoted to an ecclesiastical dignity, or to rectorship of a

parish; dismissal of religious with temporary vows; dismissal with perpetual vows in non-exempt

clerical and in all laical organizations; the canonical trial in the dismissal of a religious with

perpetual or solemn vows in a clerical exempt religious organization; dismissed religious who

had taken perpetual vows; third orders secular; confraternities & pious unions;

archconfraternities & primary unions;



Canon Law III: Parish Life

the minister of baptism; subject of baptism; rites & ceremonies of baptism; sponsors; time and

place of baptism; recording proof of baptism; the minister of confirmation; the subject of

confirmation; time & place of confirmation; sponsors; record & proof of confirmation; the holy

sacrifice of the mass; the celebrant; rites & ceremonies of holy mass; time & place of holy mass;

alms & stipends of masses; minister of holy communion; recipient of holy communion; time &

place for distribution of holy communion; minister of sacrament of penance; reservation of sins;

subject of sacrament of penance; place where confession heard; concession of indulgences;

manner of gaining indulgences; minister of extreme unction; recipient of extreme unction; rites &

ceremonies of extreme unction; minister of sacred ordination; subject of sacred organization;

requisites prior to ordination; rites & ceremonies of ordination; record & testimonial of ordination;

requisites before marriage & especially the banns; impediments in general; impedient

impediments; diriment impediments; matrimonial consent; form of marriage contract; marriage

of conscience; time & place of marriage; consequence of marriage; separation of married

people; dissolution of marriage bond; separation from bed & board; simple validation; sanatio in

radice; second marriage; sacred places: churches, oratories, altars; cemeteries; transfer of body

to church, funeral service and internment; persons to whom ecclesiastical burial must be

granted or denied; sacred seasons; holydays of obligation; fast & abstinence; keeping & cult of

the blessed sacrament; cult of the saints, of sacred images & relics; sacred processions; sacred

utensils; vows; oaths; preaching the word of God; catechetical instruction; sacred preaching;

sacred missions; seminaries; catholic schools; censorship & prohibition of books; profession of

faith; constitution or erection of benefices; union, transfer, division, disembration, conversion &

suppression of benefices; conferring of benefices; conferring of benefices; rights of patronage;

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rights & duties of beneficiaries; resignation of benefices; other non-collegiate institutes of the

church; acquisition of ecclesiastical goods; administration of ecclesiastical goods; contracts;

pious foundations;



Canon Law IV: Penal Law

trials in general; special rules to be observed in certain specified trials; manner of avoiding trial;

transaction; compromise by arbitration; accusation & denunciation, inquisition; reprimand of the

delinquent; construction of the criminal trial and summons of offender; matrimonial cases:

competent forum; constitution of tribunal; right to accuse a marriage & ask the dispensation

from the matrimonium ratum; proofs; bodily inspection; publication of the trial, conclusion of the

case, and sentence; appeals; cases excepted from foregoing rules; cases of beatification and

canonization of the blessed; manner & procedure in certain affairs or in application of penal

sanctions; means of procedure in removal of irremovable pastors; manner of procedure in

depriving removable pastors of their parish; transfer of pastors; procedure against clerics not

observing law of residence; procedure against clerics living in concubinage; procedure against

pastor negligent on fulfillment of pastoral duties; procedure for infliction of suspension ex

informata conscientia; nature & division of offences; imputability of offence, casues which

aggravate or diminish, and juridical effects of offence; attempted crime; definition, species,

interpretation & application of penalties; superiors having coercive power; persons subject to

coercive power; pardon of penalties; censures in general; excommunication; interdict;

suspension; common punitive penalties; penal remedies; penances; penalties incurred ipso

facto latae sententiae; penalties ferendae sententiae;



Class 4: Contemporary Issues

Syllabus of Errors

The syllabus, what is defined when the holy see condemns errors of doctrine, papal infallibility &

the syllabus, review of the condemned propositions: errors on pantheism, naturalism and

absolute rationalism; moderate rationalism; indifferent latitudinarianism; secret societies &

communism; errors concerning Christian marriage; errors regarding civil power of the pope;

errors having reference to modern liberalism;

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Textbook: Syllabus for the People: A REVIEW OF THE PROPOSITIONS

CONDEMNED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS IX by A MONK OF ST.AUGUSTINE'S

Liberalism

What begets liberalism, what liberalism is, liberalism is a sin, the gravity of the sin of liberalism,

the degrees of liberalism, catholic liberalism or liberal Catholicism, intrinsic causes of liberal

Catholicism, shadow & penumbra, liberalism & all its shades condemned by the church,

solemn condemnation of liberalism by the syllabus, like liberalism but not liberalism but not like

it, the name liberalism, liberalism & free thought, can a liberal be in good faith, the symptoms of

liberalism, Christian prudence & liberalism, liberalism & literature, charity & liberalism, polemical

charity & liberalism, personal polemics & liberalism, a liberal objection to ultramontane methods,

a liberal sophism & the church's diplomacy, how Catholics fall into liberalism, how to avoid

liberalism, how to distinguish catholic from liberal works, liberalism & journalism, can Catholics

& liberals ever unite, an illusion of liberal Catholics, liberalism & authority in particular cases,

Textbook: What is LIBERALISM by DR. DON FELIX SARDA Y SALVANY

How Modernists Operate

Explanation of the modernist system, presupposition of modernism, literary criticism of the old

testament, criticism of the new testament, criticism & development of Christianity, apologetic of

the modernists, agnostics, immanentism, characteristics & consequences, transfiguration &

disfiguration, relative value of religions, science & faith, church & state, Encyclical "Pascendi

Dominici Gregis"

Textbook: THE PROGRAMME OF MODERNISM Translated by A. LESLIE LILLEY

What Modernism Is

preamble of the encyclical; the ekkoes of the modernists; agnosticism; vital immanence; origin

of religion in general; notion of revelation; transfiguration and disfiguration of phenomena

through faith; origin of particular religions; action of the intellect in faith; dogma; variability of

dogma; religious experience; tradition; relation between faith and science; practical

consequences; theological immanence and symbolism; divine permanence; the religious

philosophy of the modernists; their dogma; their worship; sacred scripture and inspiration; the

church, her origin, her nature, and her rights; church and state; evolution; causes of evolution:

conservative and progressive forces in the church; practical consequences; condemnations; the

modernist as historian and critic; application of the principle of agnosticism; application of the

principle of vital immanence; application of the principle of evolution; textual criticism; the

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modernist as apologist; principles and origins; application of the principle of agnosticism;

application of apologetic principles; application of the principle of immanence; the modernist as

reformer; criticism of the modernist system the rendezvous of all heresies the way to atheism;

the causes of modernism; moral causes: curiosity and pride; intellectual causes; artifices of the

modernists for the propagation of their errors; negative means; positive means; the remedies for

modernism; rules relative to studies; choice of the directors and professors for seminaries and

catholic institutes; rules relative to students; rules concerning the reading of bad books;

institution of diocesan censorship; participation of the clergy in the management and editorship

of newspapers; congresses of priests; institution of diocesan vigilance councils; triennial report

prescribed to bishops; the church and scientific progress

Textbook: A CATECHISM ON MODERNISM by Father J. B. Lemius

Year 4 (4)

Class 1: Liturgy

Sacred Liturgy: An Overview

liturgy and worship, development of liturgy, perfect liturgy, liturgical functions, liturgical year,

liturgical provisions, liturgical science, plan of the course, essential parts of the Christian

sacrifice, complementary parts, synthesis, liturgical books, place of worship, divisions of the

church, enumeration of its parts, general development, external development, sanctification of

churches,

Textbook: A SYNTHETICAL MANUAL OF THE LITURGY by Rev. Adrian Vigourel,

S. S.

Rubrics of the Mass Textbook: THE CEREMONIES OF LOW MASS

The Catholic Hour, Day, Season, Year Examined

general idea of the liturgy, external elements in the celebration of public worship, vestments and

ministers required for the celebration of mass, liturgical prayer, the various parts of the mass

and the divine office, prayers of the ordinary of the mass, the liturgical year, general

considerations, the liturgical year in detail, seasons, time, Sundays, Days of Obligation, and

Monthly Office lessons.

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Textbook: THE LITURGY OF THE ROMAN MISSAL

Exegesis of the Holy Mass

the sacerdotal vestments; the psalm judica me, deus and Confiteor; the introit, kyrie and Gloria;

collects, epistle, gradual and gospel to the offertory; offertory to the canon of the mass; from the

beginning of the canon to the consecration; the consecration; from the consecration to the end

of the canon; from the pater noster to the priest's communion; the holy communion; from the

communion to the end of the mass; ceremonies and prayers of solemn high mass; the use of

candles and lights; the sprinkling of the holy water; the use of incense; liturgical chant and

sacred music; exposition and benediction of the blessed sacrament

Textbook: THE ORDINARY OF THE MASS by Rev. Arthur Devine

Class 2: Pastoral Theology

Practical Applications in Pastoral Theology

dignity & obligation of preaching, qualifications of the preacher, preparation, what to preach,

what not to preach, necessary qualities of a good sermon, how to preach, where to preach,

importance of the catechetical office, the catechist, manner of teaching catechism, in school and

church, first communion class, the sacraments in general, necessity of baptism, matter, form

minister, baptism of infants, requisites, converts, confirmation's nature and preparation,

sacrament of holy Eucharist, communion, the viaticum, sacrifice of the mass, ministry of

reconciliation, kindness of a father, knowledge of a judge, prudence of a physician, confessions

of men, of women, of children, of pious persons, general confession, remedies, admonitions,

indulgences, sick calls, anointing the sick, Christian burial, candidates to holy orders, nature and

use of sacramentals, exorcisms, blessings, the divine fire, a pattern of the flock, the rectory, the

friend of the poor, missions, nuns, catholic schools, church music, building, societies, book-

keeping, the priest's library

Textbook: PASTORAL THEOLOGY by Rev. William Stang, D.D

The Mystical Life for Secular Clergy

The Purgative Way: of the state of beginners, of the seven capital sins and of entering combat

against them, of gluttony, of lust, of covetousness, of anger, of envy, of sloth, of vainglory &

ambition, of pride, of the capital vices according to a higher discernment, of mortification & its

utility, of mortification of the senses & exterior acts, of custody of the tongue, of mortification of

the interior senses, of mortification of self-love, of mortifying the powers of the rational soul,.

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The Illuminative way: of zeal & acquiring virtues; of faith; of hope; of charity; of prudence; of

justice; of fortitude; of temperance. The Unitive Way: of the proximate disposition for perfection;

of contemplation; of the love of God; of the soul's union with God; priestly dignity and necessity

of perfection, priestly dignity and human frailty, imitation of Christ, holy poverty, rule of life, daily

routine, disposal of time, care of health, choice of a housekeeper, the unsuitable housekeeper,

mother and sister as housekeepers, the pastor and the housekeeper, the curates and the

housekeeper, the pastor and the curates, the curates and the pastor, curates and neighboring

priests, intercourse with fellow priests, discord among priests, the priest at the beginning of his

ministry, the priest and his flock, the priest and the influential people of the parish, the priests

and civil authorities, the priest and the schoolmaster, the priest's conduct toward women, the

priest in relation to clubs, the priest in his relations with persons of a different faith, the priest in

sickness,

Textbook: PASTORAL THEOLOGY: RULES OF LIFE FOR THE PASTOR OF SOULS by

REV. T. SLATER, S.J., AND REV. A. RAUCH, S.J.

Social Justice Loyal to Tradition

religion & social action; the catholic church & social action; the place of the priest in social

action; Germany; France; Belgium; England; Ireland; the united states & Canada; social study in

seminaries; the priest & social study; directions & counsels; the priest & catholic social

agencies; the priest & non-catholic social organisations

Textbook: THE PRIEST AND SOCIAL ACTION Charles Plater, S.J., M.A.

Class 3: Sacred Eloquence

Homiletics

rhetoric: what it is and its essential conditions; figurative language; figures of speech; rules

respecting use; taste; style; how to acquire style; didactic writing; letter writing; oratory; art of

rhetoric applied to preaching; preach, what it means, its matter and various forms; the sermon;

occasions for sermons; subjects for sermons; how to render a sermon effective; the instruction,

how to treat, chief characteristics of; consecutive course of religious instruction; catechism; the

homily; treatment of a parable; the prone; admonitions; conferences; allocutions; short

addresses on particular occasions; manner of preaching; principle of delivery; attitude or

posture of body; expression of countenance; government of the eyes; voice management; pitch

of voice; articulation; pronunciation; judicious pausing; varied modulation & emphasis;

intonation; gesture & system of gesticulation; precepts of St. Francis on delivery

Textbook: THE ART OF RHETORIC AS APPLIED TO PREACHING

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Class 4: Sacred Archaeology and Art Of the origin & general significance of legends represented in art; of the distinction to be drawn

between devotional & historical subjects; of certain patron saints commonly grouped together;

of certain emblems & attributes; of significance of colours; of angels & archangels; the four

evangelists; the twelve apostles; doctors of the church; St. Mary Magdeline, St. Martha, St.

Lazarus, St. Maximin, St. Marcella, St. Mary of Egypt & the beatified penitents; the patron saints

of Christendom; the virgin patronesses; the early martyrs; the Greek martyrs; the latin martyrs;

the Roman martyrs; martyrs of Tuscany, Lombardy, Spain & France; the early bishops; French

bishops; the hermit saints; the warrior saints of Christendom;

Textbooks: Sacred and Legendary Art by Anna Jameson, Vols 1 & 2