So They Have Named All The Classrooms

[CatherineM]

Every room actually in the new building is named after someone. My Moral Theology class meets in the Blessed Giuseppe Maria Tommasi room. Would you be shocked to learn that the Dean of Theology is Italian?

[CatherineM]

Blessed Giuseppe was known for Theology and music. We can always tell when the boss is going past the classrooms because of the Opera music that is always coming out of him.

[Luigi]

That's very interesting, and very pious I'm sure, but they should have more fun with it. Monasteries have Latin names (or English names from Latin roots) for the rooms - the califactory ('fire room') is the common room, the refectory (the dining hall), the dormitory (the sleeping room), etc.

For a college/seminary, I can envision

Of course The Gymnasium, and
The Natatorium - the swimming room
The Studium - the study hall
The Oratory - the prayer room/chapel
The Scriptorium - the computer lab where everybody types their theses - perhaps that needs updating to the Keyboardorium
The Angelicorium - where they teach nothing but Aquinas
The Privatoria - the rest rooms
The Bore-atorium - the lecture hall
The Excruciatoria - the testing rooms, and
The Misteriorium - the cafeteria.

[CatherineM]

The problem is that the seminarians here do not study Latin. Their bishops don't want them too, especially from Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

[truthfinder]

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The problem is that the seminarians here do not study Latin. Their bishops don't want them too, especially from Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
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That's pretty sad (and quite arguably against canon law 249 i think, but I'll try not to turn this into a debate.) Actually, my greatest concern with dioceses from those two provinces is the insistence (at least there was) that all children receive First Communion in Gr. 2 and Confession in Gr. 4 or at least after their First Communion - going directly against the commands of the Vatican. Once they fix that, Latin will seem a minor obstacle.

[CatherineM]

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That's pretty sad (and quite arguably against canon law 249 i think, but I'll try not to turn this into a debate.) Actually, my greatest concern with dioceses from those two provinces is the insistence (at least there was) that all children receive First Communion in Gr. 2 and Confession in Gr. 4 or at least after their First Communion - going directly against the commands of the Vatican. Once they fix that, Latin will seem a minor obstacle.
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That's interesting, I didn't know that. I know how we do first sacraments here in this diocese, but am still pretty clueless about the rest of Canada. I think Canada is a hodgepodge of areas that were influenced by different missionary orders, and lots of priests from elsewhere. It may take another couple of generations to have a truly Canadian church, if then.