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Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:33-36
History/Church History
This is not a pretty week as we look at the Crusades, but in addition to reading about the atrocities associated with this period of history, we also saw the good that came out of it. God has a plan for good in this world and all the evil men conspire to do can not thwart it.
Philosophy
Thomas Aquinas was studied this week. I tied in this week's writing assignment (informal outlines from lectures) by having Ben outline a lecture by Peter Kreeft on Aquinas.
Literature
Lower Grammar - The Usborne Official Knights Handbook
Dialectic - The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.
Rhetoric - Finished Inferno, read parts of Purgatario and Paradiso. We found the web site Dante Worlds very helpful.
Hands-on
We made a file folder game of Nine Men's Morris. We also played it online. We're hooked!
Copywork
Ethan: You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Zach:
"O Lady mine, the spring is here,
With a hey nonny nonny;
The sweet love season of the year,
With a ninny ninny nonny;
Now lad and lass
Lie in the grass
That groweth green
With flowers between.
The buck doth rest
The leaves do start,
The cock doth crow,
The breeze doth blow,
And all things laugh in-"
~ Little John's untitled ditty from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Recitation and Commonplace Book
"Within the deep and luminous subsistence
Of the High Light appeared to me three circles,
Of threefold colour and of one dimension,
And by the second seemed the first reflected
As Iris is by Iris, and the third
Seemed fire that equally from both is breathed.
O how all speech is feeble and falls short
Of my conceit, and this to what I saw
Is such, 'tis not enough to call it little!
O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest,
Sole knowest thyself, and, known unto thyself
And knowing, lovest and smilest on thyself!"
~ Paradiso
canto XXXIII lines 115-126
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Posted by Melora in NC 
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Feb. 3, 2008 - !!
Just saying hello. :+)
Warmly,
Kate