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Course Syllabi and Materials

2009-2010

The Seminary of the Society of St.

Our Programme Loyal to the Church

On May 5, 1907 on the Feast of 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 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 , 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 .

Entry into Lyceal Conversion Year:

Educated to degree standard but lacking the prerequisites as mentioned above.

2 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 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 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;

3 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;

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- & 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 , serving the mass, various prayers & offices; Exercises & orthography; orthoepy; etymology; syntax; prosody.

Textbook 1: THE '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

4 Theology

Year 1

Class 1: , 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 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 in its Relation to the Divine Incomprehensibility; The 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 ; 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 :

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;

5 Latin versions; principle early versions; 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

II Survey of the

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. 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.,

6 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 Textbook: The Book of Psalms in Hebrew & English

Year 2

Class 1: Dogmatic Theology

Part I

The Holy in unity, or threefold personality of God; God s Threefold Personality Proved from Sacred Scripture; Of ; Of ; 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 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 of the Three Divine Persons; Oneness of External Operation of the Three Divine Persons; The Unity of Mutual Inexistence, or .

Textbook: Dogmatic Theology Vol 2 by THE REVEREND JOSEPH POHLE, PH.D., D.D.

Part II

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

7 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 Considered as the First Sin, and its Effects on Our Proto-Parents; The Sin of Adam Considered as in the Technical Sense of the Term; The Nature of Original Sin; How Original Sin is Transmitted; The Penalties 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.

Textbook: Dogmatic Theology Vol 3 by THE REVEREND JOSEPH POHLE, PH.D., D.D.

Class 2: The

A 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.

8 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 ; The Sacraments as Divinely Instituted ; Contrition; The Purpose of Amendment; Confession; Questioning and Instructing Penitents; The Seal of Confession; Sacramental ; Sacramental Satisfaction; Extreme Unction; ; 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 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;

9 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 till A. D. 150; The Apostolic Fathers; Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles; St. Barnabas, Apostle; St. Clement of Rome; Hernias; St. Ignatius, of Antioch; St. , Bishop of Smyrna; St. Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis; The Unknown Author of the ; Second epoch growth & development of patristic literature; Greek Fathers and Writers; Apologists; St. Justin, Martyr; 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; ; ; Friends of Origen St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, St. Pamphilus, St. Dionysius, the Great; St. Methodius, Bishop of Olympus; , Presbyter of Carthage; Minucius Felix; St. , Bishop of Carthage; Cornelius, Stephen, Dionysius; , Schismatic; Arnobius; Lactantius Firmianus; Third epoch full growth of patristic literature; of Caesarea; St. Peter, 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, of Constantinople; Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais; St. Cyril, ; 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. , Bishop of Milan; Rufinus, Presbyter of Aquileja; St. Jerome; St, Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; Sulpicius Severus; St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola; , Priest and 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. , Archbishop of Ravenna; Christian Poets; fourth epoch decline of patristic literature; A. D. 461 c. 700; Causes of Decline; St. , 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; , Senator and Roman Patrician; Cassiodorius, Statesman and Abbot; St. Csesarius, Archbishop of Aries; St. Benedict, Abbot and Founder of the Benedictine Order; St.

10 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 in the First Three Centuries;. Causes of the Rapid Spread of Christianity. 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 ;. Election and Functions of the Bishops. Other Ecclesiastical Offices. Education and Support of the Clergy; The Authority of the Metropolitan ; 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. and Confirmation; Controversy on the Validity of Baptism when conferred by Heretics; Celebration of the Holy Eucharist; The . 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 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. 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). and Semi-Pelagianism; Christological

11 Controversies ; or, Controversies respecting the Person of Christ. ; ; The Origenist Controversy, and the Quarrel on the Three Chapters; ; Holy Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist; Penance. Extreme Unction. Ordination. Matrimony; Churches and their Ornaments. Liturgical Vestments; of . Pilgrimages and Processions; Fasting-Days. Charitable Institutions. Christian Life; Monasticism; Migration of Nations; Christianity among the Goths. Condition of the Church in Gaul and ; 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 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 under William II. and Henry; The 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.

12 Textbook:: HISTORY OF THE , 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 ; The Council of ; The ; 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 (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 ; The two great Mendicant Orders; Efficiency of these Orders. The Enmity they excited. Disputes and Party- Divisions among themselves; The Universities. and ; The first Times of Scholasticism; nourishing Period of Scholasticism; The Mystics; The Scholastics and Mystics 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 ; 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 . 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 ; 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 . 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 (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 ; The Catholic Church in Great Britain under the Stuarts; The Sufferings of the Catholics in Ireland; Apostasy in Scandinavia; Protestantism in Livonia, Courland, , and Silesia; Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania; Relation between

13 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 ; 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 ; The so-called Gallican Liberties; The Popes of the Eighteenth Century. Febronius; Josephism; Contest concerning the Nunciature. The Congress of Ems; Italy. The 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; ; 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 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, 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 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 under Maximilian Joseph I. and Louis 1; Ecclesiastical Affairs in . 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 ; The Catholic Church in Spain and ; 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; in Ireland; Revival of Catholicity in England and Scotland. Restoration of the Hierarchy in both Countries; The Popes of the Nineteenth Century; The ( 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

14 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; & 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.

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 ; 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; & pious unions; archconfraternities & primary unions;

Textbook: THE NEW CANON LAW: A COMMENTARY AND SUMMARY OF THE NEW CODE OF CANON LAW By Rev. STANISLAUS WOYWOD, O.F.M.

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

15 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; 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;

Textbook: THE NEW CANON LAW: A COMMENTARY AND SUMMARY OF THE NEW CODE OF CANON LAW By Rev. STANISLAUS WOYWOD, O.F.M.

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;

16 Textbook: THE NEW CANON LAW: A COMMENTARY AND SUMMARY OF THE NEW CODE OF CANON LAW By Rev. STANISLAUS WOYWOD, O.F.M.

Class 4: Contemporary Issues

Syllabus of Errors

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

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 & 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, "Pascendi Dominici Gregis"

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

17 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 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 ; 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 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, of churches,

18 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.

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 ; 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,

19 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, , 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 , of , of covetousness, of , of , of , of vainglory & ambition, of pride, of the capital vices according to a higher discernment, of & 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,. The Illuminative way: of zeal & acquiring ; of faith; of ; of charity; of prudence; of justice; of fortitude; of . 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.

20 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

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 ; 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

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