The Cathedral Close

A Lectio Coram in Progress

Well, it’s on.  My lectio coram, the last jump for the Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL), is scheduled for Wednesday, May 18th at 3:30 p.m.  The lecture will be in the area of dogmatic theology, and the title of the lecture is “Conversion in Four Movements: Some Observations on Grace and Conversion.”  It has been a great 11 years on and off at Dominican House of Studies and the Pontifical Faculty.  But, now the ball is now on the five yard line.  As the Spartans were wont to say, Wednesday I’ll be home carrying my shield or on it!

Thanks to all for your  encouragement, support and prayers, and a special thank you to Elizabeth and Laura who have so patiently endured their twelve-o’clock scholar.

“Grace is nothing else than a kind of beginning of glory in us.”-St. Thomas Aquinas (Theologian, Doctor of the Church and Saint)

“The truth surely is that there is nothing sinful in wishing to achieve beatitude, but only in trying to achieve it otherwise than as God has willed.”-Eric L. Mascall (Anglican Theologian and Possible Saint)