Alcuin Institute

Promoting Catholic Culture in @DioceseofTulsa. Conversations should be accompanied with much food, drink, & mirth. Real Learning. Real Living. Real Friendships

[J Spencer @thermopyly]

This morning’s topic…Angels and Saints at the Cathedral! ⁦@AlcuinInstitute⁩

[Kendall Hanson @hansoks]

@thermopyly @AlcuinInstitute Thanks for a great class! Looking forward to next month!

[J Spencer @thermopyly]

Spent the day teaching fundamental theology with this group of holy men studying for the diaconate! ⁦@AlcuinInstitute⁩

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

There is little hope in saving civilization or religion without a return of contemplatives to the land.
- Fr. Vincent McNabb

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

Yes; there are some good (challenging) trails in Oklahoma.

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

Prepping for a class on Catholic Spirituality. Beginning with Eros and Beauty.

[Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church @SFX_Stillwater]

Father Brian O'Brien was interviewed for the @DioceseofTulsa Integrated Formation Program for all diocesan employees. He spoke with Dr. Aaron Henderson of the @AlcuinInstitute on our need for the Church.

https://t.co/UWLPz7m6EF

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

A favorite of mine.
Join ⁦@AlcuinInstitute⁩ on wed night to discuss.

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

Waiting for students…a beautiful morn for Augustine!

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

Clear Creek Monastery is positively medieval.

[J Spencer @thermopyly]

Just attended a wonderful presentation/discussion on Virgil’s Eclogue 4 and Dante’s Purgatorio 22 presented by Dr. Julia Hejduk at the University of Tulsa. Lively conversation in a beautiful setting! Academia done right! ⁦@jennfrey⁩ ⁦@TUHonorsCollege⁩⁦

[Dcn. Garlick, Chancellor 🇻🇦 @HarrisonGarlic1]

How do you climb the ladder of love?

How does the soul ascend to God?

Virtue. We ascend by conforming our soul into an image of Divine Beauty.

Each part of your soul loves a particular beauty, and each love is perfected by a particular virtue.

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“Beauty is the flowering of goodness,” and “it is through the charms of this flower” that the soul is drawn to what is good.

For beauty calls to that which is ugly and invites it to become beautiful.

The soul is made beautiful by virtue, as Socrates tells us: “virtue is a certain health, beauty, and good condition of the soul.”

The soul has three parts and each part loves (eros) a particular beauty:

Reasons loves wisdom.
Spirited loves honor, excellence.
Appetitive loves pleasure.

And each part is perfected by a virtue:

Reason by prudence.
Spirited by courage.
Appetitive by temperance.

The virtue of justice adorns the whole soul by perfecting its order and moving its parts in harmony.

As the soul ascends the ladder of love, virtue forms and firms it into an image of the Supreme Beauty.

“Our acts are like steps that either bring us closer to the vision of God or else distance us from it,” writes Abbot Jean-Charles Nault, “depending on whether they are good or bad.”

This is what it truly means to be skilled in eros—to become beautiful in pursuit of Beauty by climbing the ladder of love.

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

@chestertonsoc Dale Ahlquist receiving the Our Lady of Victory Award from @AlcuinInstitute

[Alcuin Institute @AlcuinInstitute]

Last night, we were honored to give Dale Ahlquist our signature Our Lady of Victory Medal for his work in promoting Catholic learning and culture, especially through the advancement of the work of G.K. Chesterton and the renewal of Catholic schools.

[J Spencer @thermopyly]

Full house for Dale Ahlquist tonight! ⁦@AlcuinInstitute⁩ ⁦@RichardSMeloche⁩

[Richard S. Meloche @RichardSMeloche]

Happy feast day @AlcuinInstitute.
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary….ora pro nobis!

[⚜️Cody Augustine Alexander⚜️ @AugustineOfNola]

Current morning stack @HarrisonGarlic1 @AlcuinInstitute I’m getting married in 2 weeks and I benefitted greatly from the marriage manual from @TANBooks Christ, my patron Saint Augustine and Homer leading my mind for the next 2 weeks before the big day. Please pray for me!

[J Spencer @thermopyly]

Happy Feast of the Archangels! If you are interested…The Holy Angels https://t.co/Aw3MKziF3U

[Patrick Flynn @PatFlynnCOS]

My latest article sketches Aquinas’s natural theological argument from existence. Published by the cool cats at @AlcuinInstitute

https://t.co/PnD5aJM22O

[Dcn. Garlick, Chancellor 🇻🇦 @HarrisonGarlic1]

A homily:

“We are, in fact, the most free when we pursue what is the most good—God. We are the most free when we are detached from sin and choose what is good, beautiful, and true.”

https://t.co/umDFF8FoGL @AlcuinInstitute