Liturgy Institute London

For a detailed and peaceful study of Liturgy

Courses Summer 2019

A listing of our courses for the summer of 2018 is available here,
and for the
 summer of 2020 here.

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The Institutum Liturgicum is established to promote liturgical research and graduate level education in liturgy in England. Our courses summer 2019 are based on the licentiate curriculum of the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Rome, taught in English in London in summer and accredited by KU Leuven in Belgium. The Institum Liturgicum is endorsed by the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of England and Wales and of Belgium. The following links provide the full course listings at KU Leuven for the: Research Master of Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion.

St Bede Lecture

The annual St Bede Liturgy Lecture will be given by Prof. Dr Basilius Greun and is scheduled for Saturday 6 July 2019 at 2:30 pm.

Course Offerings Summer 2019

Our summer courses are arranged in three blocks of two weeks each. These course descriptions are subject to change. Additional courses may be added.

Block 1: 1 – 12 July 2019 (not 6 or 7 July)

L701 Liturgical Research Seminar (IL certificate course)

L702 Liturgy in the West: History and Context (IL certificate course)

L714 Liturgical Spirituality (IL certificate elective)

Block 2: 15 – 26 July 2019 (not 20 or 21 July)

L704 Liturgical Hermeneutics 1 (IL certificate course)

L712 The Eucharist in History (IL certificate elective)

Courses are not held during for the fortnight from 27 July-11 August.
Note that the Congress of Societas Liturgica is scheduled for 6-10 August in Durham, England.

Block 3: 12 – 23 August 2019 (not 17 or 18 August)

L719 Research Seminar: Eucharistic Prayers (IL certificate course)

L711 Proficient Latin for Liturgists (IL certificate elective)

Syriac Summer Term

Block 1-2: 1 – 26 July 2019, weekdays – not for credit

SY411 Readings in Syriac (IL certificate elective)

Syriac is taught weekdays for four weeks, for an hour and a half daily.

Latin Summer Term

Block 3: 12 – 16 or 12 – 23 August 2019 (not 17 or 18 August)
Only L711 may be taken for academic credit

Enrol for both weeks: 12 – 23 August 2019 (not 17 or 18 August)

LA411 Latin First Experience: Beginning Latin (not for credit – no exams)

LA511 Latin Second Experience is a conversational course not currently offered.

LA611 Latin Third Experience: Intermediate Latin (not for credit – no exams)

L711 Latin Fourth Experience: Proficient Latin for Liturgists (and Canonists) (offered for academic credit or not for credit)

LA811 Latin Fifth Experience: Reading Cicero’s Letters (not for credit – no exams)

Latin for the Deaf

The following courses provide guided study of the Latin language with instruction in Sign language (SEE, ASL):

LA411D Latin First Experience: Beginning Latin (not for credit – no exams)

LA611D Latin Third Experience: Intermediate Latin (not for credit – no exams)

LA711D Latin Fourth Experience: Advanced Latin (not for credit – no exams)

Course Descriptions

General information. Each course runs Monday – Friday for two weeks for a total of ten daily sessions, unless noted. Most course sessions are scheduled for 3 hours including a break.

Block 1
1 – 12 July 2019

(Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July are free days)


L701 Liturgical Research Seminar     (required for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Daniel McCarthy OSB

At the end of the course each student will be prepared to conduct their own Master’s level research in liturgy with skills in three areas:
1) gathering the essential body of information,
2) interpreting a liturgical event and
3) developing a coherent presentation.
Each student will research and present the history and theology of an agreed upon collect type prayer.

Location: Institutum Liturgicum London,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Dates: 1-5 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July are free days)
and 8-12 July (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 10.00-13.00 (including a break).

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven here.


L702 Liturgy in the West: History and Context  (required for IL certificate)  KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Ephrem Carr OSB

The course aims to provide insight into the origin and developments of the liturgy in the West up to the present day. Students reflect on the different cultural periods of society and how these shape the liturgy of the Catholic Church and how the liturgy in turn influences the culture. Students examine both the historical and liturgical record and the recent debates among Catholic liturgists concerning the past and future development of the Roman Catholic liturgy. The course will proceed by means of a chronological study of the major periods of the liturgy of the Catholic Church in the West and beyond.

Location: Institutum Liturgicum London,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Dates: 1-5 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July are free days)
and 8-12 July (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 15.00-18.00 (including a break).

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven here.

L714 Liturgical Spirituality      (elective for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. James Leachman OSB

At the end of the course each student will be prepared to:
i. describe the history of the growing separation of liturgy and interior prayer,
ii. understand and describe the conflict over liturgical spirituality and popular piety,
iii. analyse and coherently present specific examples of reconciling liturgy and spirituality,
iv. understand the celebration of the liturgy as source of motivation for daily life,
v. explain the role of the liturgy in promoting the integral human formation of the ecclesial person.

Location: Institutum Liturgicum London,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Dates: 1-5 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July are free days)
and 8-12 July (Monday to Saturday)

Hours: 09.30-12.30 (including a break). 

A fuller description of the course is available here
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven here.

Block 2
15 – 26 July 2019

(Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July are free days)

L704 Liturgical Hermeneutics 1     (required for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Daniel McCarthy OSB

At the end of the course each student will be prepared:
i. to interpret a liturgical prayer and its rite using a selection of analytical tools and liturgical dimensions,
ii. describe the proper contribution of each analytical tool and liturgical dimension, for the interpretation of a specific text or rite,
iii. situate another person’s interpretation of a liturgical prayer or rite according to these interpretative tools and liturgical dimensions

Location: Institutum Liturgicum London,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Dates: 15-19 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July free)
and 22-26 August (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 10.00-13.00 (including a break).

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven here.


L 712 The Eucharist in History     (elective for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Ephrem Carr OSB

This course considers the two major parts of the Eucharist; the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist and is designed to lead the reader through the major periods of cultural and theological change in the Church particularly in the West up to the present. We wish clearly to indicate the changes in the liturgical forms throughout history and to present the theological understandings of the Eucharist in the different periods. In this way it is hoped that readers will understand both what the Church teaches and the reasons given for these teachings.

Location: Institutum Liturgicum London,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Dates: 15-19 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July free)
and 22-26 August (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 15.00-18.00 (including a break).

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven here.

Block 3
12 – 23 August 2019

(Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August are free days)


L719 Seminar: Eucharistic Prayers   (a seminar for IL certificate)   KU Leuven 4 credits.
Prof. Ephrem Carr OSB

This seminar on liturgies of the early church is a comparative study of selected liturgical documents up to the 6th century. Students will examine a selection of early liturgical texts and trace their origin, authorship and context, examine how they have been proclaimed and interpreted and their influence up to the present. Students are helped to learn from each other by seminar presentations and to edit their own work in the light of others presentations. In this way students refine their research skills and may prepare an article for publication or develop a Masters thesis.

Location: Institutum Liturgicum London,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Dates: 12-16 August (Monday – Friday; Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 August are free days)
and 19-23 (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 09.30-12.30 (including a break).

A fuller description of the course is available here.
The descriptor of this course ‘Research Seminar in Liturgical Studies’ at KU Leuven is a general description intended to account for the changing topics offered each year.
A fuller description of the topic considered during summer term 2019 is available here.

Syriac Summer Term
Blocks 1-2: 1-26 July 2019


SY411 Readings in Syriac     (not for credit – no exams)
Ephrem Carr

This course presumes familiarity with the alphabet and formation of words so that the majority of class time may be spent reading texts. During the first two weeks we review the verbal forms of the present and perfect tenses, personal pronouns, the various usages of nouns and adjectives. The teaching method is to recognize these forms in the texts read together in class. At the end of the course each student will be prepared to describe and explain short readings from the Syriac New Testament and to produce translations of the texts.

Location: Benedictine Institute,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Dates: Enrol for the first week only: 1-5 July 2019
or for the first two weeks: 1-12 July 2019, weekdays
or for the first three weeks: 1-19 July 2019, weekdays
or for all four weeks: 1 – 26 July 2019, weekdays

Hours: 8:30-10.00

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Enrol directly with the Institutum Liturgicum London.

Latin Summer Term

Block 3:

Enrol for both weeks: 12 – 23 August 2019 (Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August are free days).
Note: only L711 may be taken for academic credit.

Canon Law Students at KU Leuven may take these courses to prepare for two proficiency exams. They are encouraged to take Beginning Latin before commencing their studies at Leuven. During the next summer they may take the Intermediate Latin, which will prepare them to take the sufficiency exam for Christian Latin (A08A0A), which covers about the first 25 chapters of Collin’s Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin, including some usages of the subjunctive and some usages of the four participles, which we present in our intermediate course. During their third summer they may take both Proficient Latin for Liturgists, which also considers canonical texts regarding liturgy, along with Readings Cicero’s Letters, both of which will prepare them for the advanced Latin exam at KU Leuven. They are also welcome to begin their study of Latin later in their programme of study at KU Leuven.


LA411 Latin First Experience: Beginning Latin     (not for credit – no exams)
Daniel Vowles will present the material, and another tutor will review the ludi domestici (domestic games = personal study)

No knowledge of the language is presumed. The First Experience of the Latin language introduces the student to authentic Latin literature with a clear presentation of how human thought is expressed in Latin. Learn to pronounce and read Latin from original texts, both ancient and modern. Learn to compose your own sentences. Instruction given in English, working patiently, using simple texts for a clear understanding of what the author originally said. We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD directly from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola, from which students shall cover most of the First Experience in ten weekdays comprising all the verb-times in the indicative, active and passive, the system of commands and nouns and adjectives in most of their usages.

Location: Benedictine Institute,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Enrol for both weeks: 12-16 August (Monday – Friday; Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 August are free days) and 19-23 August (Monday to Friday)

Hours of instruction: 10.00-11.15; 11.30-12.45; (lunch;) 14.00-15.15; and review of the ludi: 15.30-16.30,
for a total of 4 hours and 45 minutes daily. This is an increase of 20% or 9 hours more contact time over two weeks than in 2016.

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Enrol by contacting the Registrar at il AT liturgyinstitute DOT org.

LA511 Latin Second Experience is a conversational course not currently offered.


LA611 Latin Third Experience: Intermediate Latin     (not for credit – no exams)
Laura Pooley

There are two main components of study: the subjunctive and the four participles with their very many respective usages. Students will begin to understand the meaning and usages of the subjunctive mode, mostly in reading but also in writing the Latin language. They also learn the forms and natural meaning of the four participles, and their usages including the ablative absolute. We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD, retired papal Latinist of forty years, directly from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola. The material covered in his First Experience is presumed for this course, including all times of the indicative, active and passive; the system of commands; noun and adjectives in most of their usages. This course covers most of the Third Experience in ten weekdays.

This not-for-credit course is designed for students preparing for the exam following the initial semester of Latin at KU Leuven, and the Latin proficiency exam at the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Rome.

Location: Benedictine Institute,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Enrol for both weeks: 12-16 August (Monday – Friday; Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 August are free days) and 19-23 August (Monday to Friday)

Hours of instruction: 10.00-11.15; 11.30-12.45; (lunch;) 14.00-15.15; 15.30-16.30, for a total of 4 hours and 45 minutes daily. This is an increase of 20% or 9 hours more contact time over two weeks than in 2016.

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Enrol by contacting the Registrar at il AT liturgyinstitute DOT org.


L711 Latin Fourth Experience: Proficient Latin for Liturgists (and Canonists)
(elective for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits

Prof. Daniel McCarthy OSB

Students will encounter Latin liturgical texts and canonical texts on liturgy written by authors from many ages. They will proceed to a greater facility and ease with the Latin language and come to a more detailed and direct understanding of liturgical texts. They will develop a fuller expression of liturgical ideas accurately and beautifully in both Latin and English. We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD directly from the draft copy of his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola. The material covered in its First and Third Experiences is presumed for this course, including the natural meaning and usages of the four participles and the forms and very many usages of the subjunctive mode. Because of limited hours of instruction, we shall cover the main elements, but not all of the Fourth Experience. These include indirect discourse (accusative with the infinitive), gerunds and gerundives, conditional sentences.

Canon law students of KU Leuven who are qualified may enrol in this course along with the course Reading Cicero’s Letters as a preparation for the advanced exam in Latin at KU Leuven. This course was originally designed for liturgists, but includes a consideration of canonical texts relating to liturgy such as Sacrosanctum Concilium, Praenotanda, Decreta and, if possible to find, sententia that involve liturgical law.

Location: Benedictine Institute,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Enrol for both weeks: 12-16 August (Monday – Friday; Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 August are free days) and 19-23 August (Monday to Friday)

Note: the afternoon sessions fulfill the requirements for contact hours for this course, if taken for credit at KU Leuven. But our other Latin courses meet for additional hours daily, so we have decided to offer proficient Latin for more hours daily. We now offer a morning session from 10.00-13.00.  Students who enrol in this course at KU Leuven are encouraged to also enrol directly with the IL London in the morning session. Students not taking the course for credit are expected to enrol in the entire daily programme. All students of proficient Latin for liturgists are encouraged to also enrol with IL London in Reading Cicero’s Letters, LA811.

For credit students enrol for both weeks:

Enrol for credit with KULeuven: B-KUL-A07E3A
and then enrol for the morning sessions with IL London (£160).
You may also enrol in Reading Cicero’s Letters (£240 total for morning and Cicero)

Not-for credit students enrol for both weeks:

Enrol for the whole daily session with IL London (£320).
You may also enrol in Reading Cicero’s Letters (£400 total for both)

Hours:

10-13.00
14.00-17.00 (with a break)
(17.00-18.15 Reading Cicero’s Letters)

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Enrol by contacting the Registrar at il AT liturgyinstitute DOT org.


LA811 Latin Fifth Experience: Reading Cicero’s Letters     (not for credit – no exams)
Daniel Vowles

This is a reading course of the Letters Cicero wrote to family and friends. Every letter integrates many aspects of the Latin language, and quickly provides a synthesis of the whole language including: the sequence of tenses, indirect discourse and question, expressions of purpose and result and characteristic result, conditionals, modal attraction; gerunds, gerundives, ablatives absolute. Students will gain a more synthetic understanding of the Latin language and gain greater clarity about its modes of expression and their ambiguities. We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD, retired papal Latinist of forty years, directly from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola, in which this course is equivalent to the Fifth Experience, ongoing readings of Latin. Students may take this course in conjunction with L711 Latin Fourth Experience: Proficient Latin for Liturgists (and Canonists).

Location: Benedictine Institute,

74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Enrol for the first week only: 12-16 August
Enrol for both weeks: 12-16 August (Monday – Friday; Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 August are free days) and 19-23 August (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 17:00-18:15

A fuller description of the course is available here.

Latin for the Deaf

Block 3

Enrol for the first week only: 12-16 August 2019
or for both weeks: 12 – 23 August 2019.


LA411D Latin First Experience: Beginning Latin for the Deaf     (not for credit – no exams)
Greg Carrier will guide the self-study of the Deaf with the supervision of Daniel McCarthy.

No knowledge of the language is presumed. The First Experience of the Latin language introduces the student to authentic Latin literature with a clear presentation of how human thought is expressed in Latin. Learn to read Latin from original texts, both ancient and modern. Learn to compose your own sentences. Guided direction given in Signed Exact English or ASL or written English, working patiently for a clear understanding of what the author originally said. We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD directly from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola.

The guided self-study of Latin for the Deaf comprises four elements:

1. The student reads the individual encounters in the Ossa book,
2. The student completes the Ludus domesticus (domestic game = self-study) corresponding to each encounter,
3. The student reviews the Ludus and discusses any questions with the tutor, Greg Carrier (SEE, written English), and as needed with the supervisor, Daniel McCarthy (hearing with familiarity in SEE and ASL).
4. Students and the instructor may propose other texts to be sight-read together and rendered into good English on the spot.

It is possible to complete ten encounters and Ludi within the two weeks of intensive study. An oral component is not expected but can be provided as desired.

Location: Benedictine Institute,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Enrol for the first week only: 12-16 August
Enrol for both weeks: 12-16 August (Monday – Friday; Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 August are free days) and 19-23 August (Monday to Friday)

Hours: by appointment. Experience has shown that each day approximately an hour of instruction is needed to respond to questions and review the Ludus completed during the previous day. This course relies heavily upon self-study.

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Enrol by contacting the Registrar at il AT liturgyinstitute DOT org.


LA611D Latin Third Experience: Intermediate Latin for the Deaf     (not for credit – no exams)
Daniel McCarthy

The content of this course depends on the students’ progress made in private-study during the preceeding year. The encounters and their corresponding ludi will be chosen to meet the needs of the Deaf participants.

Experience has taught that students have greater difficulty with the abundance of material included in the Third Experience. Because this course is based on guided self-study, the two main elements of the Third Experience must be devided and presented in two subsequent years. This year is dedicated to the participles, and the following year to the forms and very many usages of the subjunctive.

If participants have successfully completed the First Experience of the book Ossa Latinitatis Sola, then the ten sessions of this course will be dedicated to the four participles and their natural meaning as found in the Third Experience, encounters 15 (50) – 22 (57) with their corresponding ludi. Various usages of the participles will be considered, especially the ablative absolute.

Students wishing to continue their self-study of the Third Experience after this course may return to encounters 1 (36) – 8 (43) and their ludi, and then continue with the initial presentation of the forms and principles of the subjunctive given in Encounters 9 (44) – 14 (49) of the Third Experience. This will prepare the students for the very many usages of the subjunctive in the subsequent summer session.

The guided self-study of Latin for the Deaf comprises four elements:

1. The student reads the individual encounters in the Ossa book,
2. The student completes the Ludus domesticus (domestic game = self-study) corresponding to each encounter,
3. The student reviews the Ludus and discusses any questions with the tutor Daniel McCarthy (hearing with familiarity in SEE and ASL),
4. Students and the instructor may propose other texts to be sight-read together and rendered into good English on the spot.

An oral component is not expected but can be provided as desired.

Location: Benedictine Institute,
74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DD

Enrol for the first week only: 12-16 August
Enrol for both weeks: 12-16 August (Monday – Friday; Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 August are free days) and 19-23 August (Monday to Friday)

Hours: by appointment. Experience has shown that about an hour of private instruction daily is needed to respond to questions and review the Ludus completed during the previous day. This course relies more heavily upon self-study.

A fuller description of the course is available here.

Enrol by contacting Clare Cogswell, Registrar, at  il AT liturgyinstitute DOT org.

FAQs: Frequently asked questions about the summer session

© James Leachman, O.S.B., page updated by DM on 14 September 2019.