Classes

Today I can say, whatever was taught sounded greek to me. Had greek lessons for future scipture use. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, I keep imagining my CJC maths lecturer saying it in his hong kong accent. Have to memorise the greek alphabet, where 'z' comes between 'e' and 'ē'.

Well the other lessons have also been quite interesting. In the Intro to Liturgy, the one that struck me most was about the wedding at cana. This story of the wedding banquet can be seen as a symbol of Man in Life, where because of the Fall, are at a time where the wine (which brings joy) is finished, and the jars of water for purification were empty (Us and the emptiness in our lives). A bit like Narnia where it was always winter but never Christmas.

And so, Jesus comes to give us joy (wine) to the guest and host, restoring the Unity/Harmony. But for Jesus to perform the miracle, we must bring the water, not the empty vessels. Thus when we enter into Liturgy, we need to come (open disposition and desire) with our jars(ourselves) filled with water (our desire to be changed), for Jesus to turn our water into wine (Joy), for all the people to enjoy.

Another lesson, on the divine office, where we read the instructions to the divine office. Sad to say it's only in the book that the seminary gave us, not in the morning and evening prayer books that we normally use. I managed to find it online. Anyway normally these instructions are quite boring, and nobody reads them. But it contains quite a bit of mind-blowing writings on prayer and the purpose of prayer and some other stuff. Read only chapter 1, the rest as usual, quite technical

Next week latin, dunno how that is going to be... vale