Comments for Work, Pray – Study at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 09:56:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13073 The Augustine Institute in Denver is turning out tremendous, well-formed men and women of faith for the new evangelization. They have some wonderful opportunities for online /distance learning. - Denverite Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:34:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13069 A terrific book to help with your study of the Summa is: The Summa Simplified for Everyone by Farrell and Healy (1952). Published by the Confraternity Of The Precious Blood. - Joe Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:52:09 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13058 You have such wonderful thinkers and writers producing articles for you every day. It would be a interesting extension of your work to create a way by internet or conference calls to have some of your contributors guide your readers through the type of study you suggest. - hmoore Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:56:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13047 Good article, I am surprised that Dr. Royal didn't mention the Institute of Catholic Culture headed up by Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo. I think Dr. Royal has a couple lectures there on Dante. I found that set of lectures very edifying, especially from Fr. Scalia, Dr. Cuddeback and a few other outstanding and brilliant speakers. Do look it up. Pax et bonum, Achilles - Achilles Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:16:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13045 We have belonged to a Communio group which meets every month for the last 5 yrs. This was started by Benedict XVI & von Balthsar in the '70s. Very worthwhile. - gtbradshaw Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:52:09 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13043 For the truly ambitious student, John Paul the Great Catholic University in San Diego offers a Masters in Biblical Theology on a distance learning basis. This is a very high caliber program with current lectures available through I-tunes. The presentations are top notch, reflective both of deep Catholic orthodoxy as well as the best in modern biblical scholarship. Perhaps there is a similar program in the U.S. that requires both Hebrew and Greek courses, but I doubt it. Also, it is very reasonably priced for what they deliver. Full disclosure- I am a student there and am pretty well convinced that we are in the vanguard of orthodox Catholic Biblical Scholarship, though no one has said so. - Lee Gilbert Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:24:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13040 Just wanted to put in a plug for the Distance Learning Program at Holy Apostles in Connecticut and approved by the Cardinal Newman Society. - Edward Radler Rice Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:03:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13036 For those who want to study the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas but have a hard time understanding Scholastic language, there is a 4 volume set by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., called the Companion to the Summa, which is fantastic. Fr. Farrell goes through the whole Summa Theologiae and attempts to make the ideas accessible to the average person. It is an easier read, but will give one a good grasp of Aquinas' thought and teaching. - Br. Ambrose, O.P. Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:02:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13032 One thing that such people could do if they know a little Scholastic Philosophy is go over to the Philosophy Forum at Catholic Answers and contribute their wisdom to the threads touching on things Thomistic like discussions on the Five Ways, soul, causality, etc. There is desperate need over there for folks who know what they are talking about. The site has been invaded by Atheists. - Linus Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:42:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13022 Well, if you don't have a job, Bob, how about "eat, pray, love?" Will that work? - Grump Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:19:34 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13020 Thank you Dr. Royal for this wonderful post and so close to the beginning of the school year. It reminds me very much of the methodology used in the Cursillo Movement, with its three-legged stool of Piety, Study, and Action, each leg being necessary for the stool to stand properly and be of service to those who want to make use of it. I think of the hours one can spend, and occasionally does spend, whiling away on the Internet supposedly studying and researching; there's still nothing like picking up a real book and drilling down through an idea, rather than chase whatever thought, chimera, or phantasm that occurs to one while zipping through the worldwide web. And the added value of study circles is that they are things people do together, ever-increasingly important in our atomized and isolated age. I'm at the beginning of a new job and not settled into our new home, so organizing a study group might take a little more effort, but I will look seriously into the matter to see if something can be done. Clusters of worship and learning preserved and converted Western civilization when the barbarian hordes and the enemies of the Faith threatened to overrun it and reduce it to rubble. We laity are not called to form monasteries or ghettoes; but we are indeed still called to be lights shining in the darkness and the preservation and extension of Catholic culture is still the best that we can do, especially since, as Bl. John Paul II noted more than once, evangelization is not complete until the culture is evangelized. By those lights, we have a long way to go; but if we recall Our Lady of Guadalupe, amazing large-scale miracles of conversion are still possible. - Dave Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:44:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/work-pray-study.html#comment-13019 Thanks for a very nice piece of work,Great insight and very interesting! - Jack,CT Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:44:54 +0100