The end of the summer is here. I never cease to marvel at how fast time passes. It seems like yesterday we were arriving in Frankfurt anxious and excited. Now it is two years later, and I am entering the last year of the STM degree...The summer concluded with a bang. I took a intensive Latin course the last three weeks of August. It was intense. Four hours-a-day, five days-a-week. I took the Latin proficiency test yesterday and passed. Whew....thanks be to God. Now on to the new semester tomorrow.
The last week of Latin we had a visitor from Boise. Mike Gaudette stopped by for a few days as he was vacationing over here. It was a real treat to see and visit with Mike again. We even got him to Vienna for a little sight seeing.
As I said, I start the new semester tomorrow. I have a nice full line-up of classes. The ITI surely doesn't want a person to be bored while they are here! :-) I am taking:
Greek (New Testament) - first semester of full year of GreekMetaphysics II - reading Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Kant, and Heidegger
Christology - St. Thomas Aquinas on the Incarnation
Soteriology - St. Thomas Aquinas and others on salvation and redemption
Moral Theology: Law and Grace - St. Thomas Aquinas
Moral Theology: Virtue and Vice - St Thomas Aquinas
I hope you all had a fantastic summer of rest and renewal. Please continue to pray for us as we seek to do the Lord's will.
