All Saints Day Prayer (Lit. of the Hours)
Father, All-Powerful and ever-living God,
today we rejoice in the holy men and women
of every time and place.May their prayers bring us your forgiveness and loveWe ask this in the name of
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Announcements • HW: Finish Review
Worksheets• Exam on Tuesday
November 10th !! • Christmas Cards• Pray for Brittany
Palmer
Chapter 4 ConcludedChapter 5
St. Hilary • Latin Church Father • Athanasius of the
West • Fought Arianism • Heretics: followers of
Christianity who were trying to explain the same ideas, but in different terms
THE THREE CAPPADOCIANS
St. Basil the Great • Community life is essential • Teachings = Greek Church legislation • Father of Eastern Monasticism • Fought Arianism • “if people only took what they needed,
there would be no rich or poor.”
St. Basil• Worked for clerical
rights• Saw that Priests
were properly trained
• Provided for the spiritual and material needs of the laity
• Built a social system of hospitals and social service institutions
• Divine Liturgy
St. Gregory of Nazianzus• Five Theological
Orations = Third person of the Trinity
• Against Arianism • “Gregory Bishop”
St. Gregory of Nyssa
• Became monk after wife died
• On Virginity• Attacked Arianism/
“Theotokos”
Pope St. Leo the Great d. 461• Consolidated Papal
Power (NT)• Gained Papal
Jurisdiction (West)• “First Pope”(modern)
St. Augustine of Hippo • Mother =
Christian • Father = pagan • Studied Law • Student of
rhetoric (Cicero) • Manichaeists
St. Augustine of Hippo
Found Difficult: - The Bible - Origin of
Evil
Left Manichaeism after questions went unanswered
St. Augustine “My heart will not rest until it rests in You.”
Augustine’s Most Important Works
• City of God • Confessions
CHAPTER 5Light in the Dark Ages
PART I The Collapse of the Roman Empire
The Fall of Rome • Began in 410 AD • Empire NOT
completely Christianized
• Loss of civil system
• Rome fell to the Barbarians
The Barbarians:
• Brought primitive justice/ Religion
• Lacked moral codes • Social understanding
countered the Church’s
Fall of Rome: Impact on the Church
• No scholarship = illiteracy • Roads became unsafe = stop to
evangelization • Primitive religious practices = Christians
began to act (again) like pagans
Church Structure• Modeled after the Empire• Christianity and Empire =
intertwined
• Barbarian invasions changed these views
Germanic Tribes
The Germanic Tribes
• Diverse/ divided culture
• Same language• Agrarian Society • Encouraged by
Romans to settle along the boarder of Rome
The Goths
• Visigoths/ Ostrogoths• First to invade the
Empire
Ulphilas: Apostle to the Goths
• Translated Bible into Gothic
• Ordained Bishop• Converted
Goths/Vandals to Arianism
The Franks
• Clovis (Chieftain)• First to convert to Christianity
The Huns• Ruthless/ferocious• Took Romans/Germanic
Tribes by surprise
Attila the Hun • “The Scourge of God”• Brave warrior• Skilled Diplomat • Ruthless• Left Rome after
meeting Pope St. Leo
Church’s Interpretation of Barbarian Invasions:• Church is Universal • Established independence
from Rome• Had to alter evangelization
techniques • Monasticism = access to the
people
Christian Attitudes Towards the Barbarian Invasions:
• Discouraged• Christ was about
to Return • Just punishment
for their sins
PART II
The Rise of Monasticism
Monasticism • Prayer• Self-denial • Seclusion from the world• Living under a fixed rule
with professed vows
Monastic Communities
• Withdrew from the world in order to seek God through asceticism and silence.
• Asceticism: life characterized by the absence of worldly pleasures
Two Types of Monasticism: • Eremitical: hermit • Cenobitical: community life
St. Paul of Thebes
• First Hermit • Anchorite (solitary
monk)• Desert Father
(wanted to be inaccessible)
St. Anthony• Gave away all
possessions • “do not be anxious
about tomorrow” (Matthew 6:34)
• Offered self as a martyr to Diocletian
• Fled further into the desert (solitude)
• Athanasius: Biography
Monasteries Served As: • A source of great spiritual strength• Seminaries for priests and bishops • Centers of evangelization to the
barbarian tribes
The Effect of Monasteries on Europe:
• Recovery and evangelization of rural society
• Intellectual• Civilization
St. Benedict: The “Patriarch of Western Monasticism”
• Desert Monk • Abbot • Great Healer • Organized
monasteries
Benedictine Rule
• Chanting the Psalms and reading prayers in the community (four hours)
• Private Prayer and Scriptural reading (four hours)
• Physical Labor (six hours)
• Meals and sleep (ten hours)
Pope St. Gregory The Great
• Last of Latin Doctors• Abbot • Deacon of Rome • Nuncio • Pope – made peace with Lombards
without consent
PART IIIThe Rise of Islam
Islam • Muhammed/ Archangel Gabriel • Hagar (Ishmael)
Five Pillars of Islam
• The Shahada• Prayer • Zakah: (alms) • The Hajj:
Mecca• Ramadan
Top Related