AINT  JOHN'S

SEMINARY

COURSE LECTURES and
SELF-STUDY PROGRAMS

  Fr. Luke Dysinger, O.S.B. 

St. Jerome Giovanni Bellini, 1480

THESE links provide access to webpages used in teaching the courses listed below.
Some of the pages include brief audio-lectures.
[addt'l. resources [RETREATS]

 

 

CH 517:  THE PATRISTIC CHURCH: to 800
ThM 575:  CATHOLIC BIOETHICS  [course website]

 

 

 

 

    ASCETIC PRACTICES and THE MIND: HEALING ENCHANTMENTS

 

 

CH 527:  THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH: 800-1563
CH 537:  THE MODERN CHURCH: 1563 to THE PRESENT
ThM 548:  HUMAN SEXUALITY and CELIBACY

 

 

 

 

LA Educ.Congress
2023

 PALLIATIVE CARE: A CATHOLIC RESPONSE
        to
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

 

 

 

 

CH 599Z:  CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM  [course website]
ThM/ThSp 599F:  THE MORAL VIRTUES and HUMAN FREEDOM   [course website]
ThM/CH 599U:  VIRTUE, VICE and ADDICTION  [course website]
CH/ThSp 599H:  A HISTORY of CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL PRACTICES  [course website]
CH/ThSp 584:  THE HISTORY of CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY 

CH/ThSp 599p:

 EARLY CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION  [course website]

CH/ThSp 583:  MEDIEVAL HISTORY and SPIRITUALITY
ThM 528:  THE SACRAMENT of MARRIAGE and THE FAMILY

 

 

 

 

CH 501:  EARLY CHURCH HISTORY to 1500
CH 502:  CHURCH HISTORY: 1500 to the PRESENT
CH 583:

 THE CHURCH in the PATRISTIC ERA  [course website]

ThM 599P:  INTROD. to CATHOLIC BIOETHICS  [course website]
ThM 544:  MARRIAGE and HUMAN SEXUALITY
ThM 580:  HEALTH  CARE and CATHOLIC MORALITY 
ThM 599.D:

 CHRIST at the BEGINNING of LIFE [alt.perin.hosp.]

ThS 574:  PENANCE and ANOINTING
:

 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY

  

 

RETREATS  PALLIATIVE CARE vs.ASSISTED SUICIDE;     CARE & PREPARE;  DISCERNMENT;     AMORIS LĘTITIA;  USEFUL WEBSITES;  ;   SPIRITUAL/CLINICAL;   2021 BIOETHICS (Convocation);.   COVID-19; HV50; VALYERMO


PLEASE note that: (1) audio lectures (5-9 min. in length) will take several minutes to download on slow modem connections; and (2) they require a reasonably recent version of Windows Media Player (or another player capable of playing .wma files).  750677 DY9283746 adamant  LASSUS-expt


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FIRST COLLECT

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FATHER, give us the grace, this day
to seek you in all we do,
that we may honour you with all our mind,
and love everyone in truth of heart.
We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


ALMIGHTY ever-living God,
be with us in all we do this day,
that in everything we do and say
we may show forth your love for us
and become true heralds of you Kingdom
and instruments of your healing,
We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


FATHER,
as this new day has dawned
send the radiance of your light
to shine in our hearts.
Make us true to your teaching;
keep us free from error and sin.
We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


ALMIGHTY ever-living God,
be with us in all we do this day,
that in everything we do and say
we may show forth your love for us
and become true heralds of you Kingdom
and instruments of your healing,
We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

WE give you thanks, Almighty God,
that you enable us to draw from the rich heritage of our tradition
the wisdom that enlightened our forebears.
Give us grace in our day to proclaim your Good news.

We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

ALMIGHTY ever-living God,
give us, we pray, the grace to learn from the wisdom of those who have gone before ue.
so that we in our turn may proclaim your good news
in words that can be understood by your children

We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 


Click on the "lectures and assignments" link to access the downloadable lectures and associated webpages.


Asceticism (Virtues and Vices)
http://ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/CH_599z_Asceticism/webcourse/00a_start.htm


Christian Spiritual Practices (i.e. What used to be called "Mystical Theology")
http://ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/CH_599h_Spir_Pract/webcourse/00a_start.htm


Early Christian Spiritual Direction
http://ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/ThSp_599z_SpDir/webcourse/00a_start.htm


Patristics
http://ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/CH_583_Patr/webcourse/00a_start.htm


Introduction to Catholic Bioethics
http://ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/ThM_590_Intro-Bioeth/webcourse/00a_start.htm