COVID: All courses are hybrid: offered both in person and online, with the exception of the Block 3 Research Seminar: Eucharistic Prayers held in August, which will be available in person only, not on-line. Hours for each course are listed below in UK time.

A listing of our courses for the summer of 2021 here
and a proposed course listing for the summer of 2023 is available here,

About: The Institutum Liturgicum is established to promote liturgical research and graduate level education in liturgy in England. Our courses summer 2022 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 link provides 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 Rev. Bernhard Eckerstorfer O.S.B., Rector of the Athenaeum of Sant’Anselmo, Rome. The lecture is scheduled for Saturday 9 July 2022 at 2:30 pm, at Ealing Abbey, free of charge.

Course Offerings Summer 2022

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: 4 – 15 July 2022 (not 9 or 10 July)

L701 Liturgical Research Seminar (IL certificate course)

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

L705 Theology of the Liturgy (IL certificate course)

Block 2: 18 – 29 July 2022 (not 23 or 24 July)

L703 Western Liturgical Books (IL certificate course)

L713 Christian Initiation (IL certificate elective)

Block 3: 1 – 12 August 2022 (not 6 or 7 August)

L719 Research Seminar: The Eucharist (IL certificate course)

Block 4: 15 – 26 August 2022 (not 20 or 21 August)

L711 Proficient Latin for Liturgists (IL certificate elective)

Syriac Summer Term

Block 3 – 4: 1 – 26 August 2022, weekdays – not for credit
(this course is proposed; yet to be confirmed)

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 4: 15 – 26 August 2022 (not 20 or 21 August) Hours of instruction for the Latin courses are yet to be determined.

Dates: 15 – 26 August 2022, weekdays.
Non residential participants may enrol for both weeks or for only the first week: 15 – 19 August 2022.

LA411 Beginning Latin (not for credit – no exams)

LA611 Intermediate Latin (not for credit – no exams)

L711 Advanced Latin (not for credit – no exams)

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

LA811 Reading Cicero’s Letters (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. Liturgy courses are scheduled for 3 hour sessions including a break. Language sessions are scheduled as noted.

Block 1
4 – 15 July 2022

(Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 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: 4 – 8 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July are free days)
and 11 – 15 July (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 10.00 – 13.00 (including a break).

Fee: £260

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

L702 Liturgy in the West: History and Context

(required for IL certificate)  KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Stefan Geiger 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: 4 – 8 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July are free days)
and 11 – 15 July (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 17.00 – 20.00 (including a break).

Fee: £260

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

L705 Theology of the Liturgy

(required for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Dr Joris Geldhof and Prof. Stefan Geiger OSB

Students:

• Familiarize themselves with the emergence of theology of the liturgy in the course of the 20th century;
• Understand the content of A. Schmemann’s, A. Kavanagh’s and D.W. Fagerberg’s approach to theology of the liturgy;
• Explain the meaning of the adage lex orandi, lex credendi as well as the reasons why it is both important and controversial;
• Develop a personal and critical standpoint towards the particularity of theology of the liturgy as it is interpreted by Schmemann, Kavanagh, and Fagerberg;
• Aapply the insights of theology of the liturgy to methodological issues and to questions of a more systematic – theological nature.

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

Dates: 4 – 8 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July are free days)
and 11 – 15 July (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 13.00 – 16.00 (including a break).

Fee: £260

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the previous course descriptor at KU Leuven is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

Block 2
18 – 29 July 2022

(Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July are free days)

L703 Western Liturgical Books

(required for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Daniel McCarthy OSB

At the end of the course each participant will be prepared to:

• Name and describe the characteristics and historical evolution of the principle liturgical books of the West, especially: the sacramentaries, lectionaries, and missals; the ordines, pontificals and rituals; breviaries;
• Describe the content, historical context and contribution to the developing tradition of the primary books;
• Use each book’s critical apparatus along with other research instruments;
• Present one’s own research into these liturgical books.

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

Dates: 18 – 22 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July are free days)
and 25 – 29 July (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 14.00 – 17.00 (including a break).

Fee: £260

A fuller description of the course is available here,
and a link to the course descriptor at KU Leuven is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

L713 Christian Initiation    

(required for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Prof. Stefan Geiger OSB

At the end of the course each participant will be prepared to:

• Describe the origin of christian initiation in New Testament and Jewish prayer;
• Present the development of the structure of christian initiation in the first ten centuries;
• Trace the developments in the Middle Ages and Catholic Reformation up to 1962;
• Detail renewal of christian initiation as mandated by the Second Vatican Council;
• Understand the contemporary rites of initiation of the Roman Rite.

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

Dates: 18 – 22 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July are free days)
25 – 29 July (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 09.30-12.30 (including a break).

Fee: £260

A fuller description of the course is available here.
and a link to the previous course descriptor at KU Leuven is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

Block 3
1 – 12 August 2022

(Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August are free days)

L719 Research Seminar: Eucharistic Prayers

(a seminar for IL certificate)   KU Leuven 4 credits.
Prof. Dr. Basilius Greun

This seminar considers the history and development of eucharistic texts. Students will examine a selection of eucharistic texts and trace their origin and development through history, examine how they have been proclaimed and interpreted 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: 1 – 5 August (Monday to Friday; Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August are free days)
and 8 – 12 (Monday to Friday)

Hours: 9.30 – 12.30 (including a break).

Fee: £260

A fuller description of the topic considered during summer term 2022 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.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

Syriac Summer Term

Blocks 3 – 4: 1 – 26 August 2022, weekdays – not for credit

SY411 Readings in Syriac
(this course is proposed; yet to be confirmed)

Prof. Iohannes 

(Not for credit – no exams.)
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 August 2022
or for the first two weeks: 1 – 12 August 2022, weekdays
or for the first three weeks: 1 – 19 August 2022, weekdays
or for all four weeks: 1 – 26 August 2022, weekdays.

Hours: 8:30 – 10.00

Fee: 4 weeks for £460

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Enrol directly with the Institutum Liturgicum London.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

Latin Summer Term

Block 4
15 – 26 August 2022

Only L711 may be taken for academic credit

Enrol for both weeks: 15 – 26 August 2022 (Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 August are free days)
OR non residential participants may enrol for both weeks or for only the first week: 15 – 19 August 2022.

LA411 Beginning Latin

Instructor: Lydia Roberts

(Not for credit – no exams.)
No knowledge of the language is presumed. By the end of the course each participant will have been introduced to:

• All verb times in the indicative,
• The active and passive voice,
• Command forms,
• All noun and adjective groups and most of their usages,
• Reading and pronouncing original Latin texts, from ancient to modern.

We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD directly from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola, and its companion volume Ossa Ostensa Book 1 by Laura Pooley. This course covers most of the First Experience in ten weekdays.

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

Dates: 15 – 26 August, weekdays.

Hours of instruction: Summer courses 2022 are intended to be held in person, but we also want to make them accessible online as well. Our Daily sessions last 3 hours with a break. Hours of instruction will be determined by 4 July to accommodate the location of on-line participants.

Fee: £320

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

LA611 Intermediate Latin

Instructor: Laura Pooley

(Not for credit – no exams.)

• The meaning and uses of the subjunctive mood, 
• The forms and natural meanings of the four participles,
• Various uses of participles including the ablative absolute, 
• Reading a variety of texts in their original Latin 
• Writing in Latin

We use the teaching method of the late Reginald Foster OCD, papal Latinist of forty years, directly from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola, and its forthcoming companion volume Ossa Ostensa Book 2 by Laura Pooley. This course covers most of the Third Experience in ten weekdays.

The material presumed for this course is covered in Beginning Latin given above.

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

Dates: 15 – 26 August, weekdays.

Hours of instruction: Summer courses 2022 are intended to be held in person, but we also want to make them accessible online as well. Our Daily sessions last 3 hours with a break. Hours of instruction will be determined by 4 July to accommodate the location of on-line participants.

Fee: £320

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

LA711 Advanced Latin

Instructor: Daniel Vowles

Students will encounter Latin literature written by many authors from every age. During this course students will learn and develop a facility with the following elements of the Latin language:

• The accusative with the infinitive used in indirect discourse and object sentences,
• The gerund and gerundive and the participle of passive necessity,
• Conditional sentences: if … , then … ,
• The 3% use of the sequence of tenses and modal attraction,
• Verbs of doubting, fearing and prohibiting,
• Oblique complements of verbs and their passive construction,
• Specific usages of the dative, genitive, ablative,
• Overviews of:
  • 14 ways to express purpose,
  • 10 usages of the relative pronoun,
  • Positive and negative commands,

We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola, and its forthcoming companion volume Ossa Ostensa Book 3 by Laura Pooley. This course covers most of the Fourth Experience in ten weekdays.

The material presumed for this course is listed above for the First and Third Experiences.

Students wishing more instruction are encouraged to enrol also in Reading Cicero’s Letters, LA811. A discount is offered when enrolling with us in both courses.

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

Enrol for both weeks: 15 – 26 August, weekdays.

Hours of instruction: Summer courses 2022 are intended to be held in person, but we intend to make them accessible online as well. Our Daily sessions last 3 hours with a break. Hours of instruction will be determined by 4 July to accommodate the location of on-line participants.

Enrol directly with us for the full not-for-credit course. Fee: £320.

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

L711 Proficient Latin for Liturgists

(elective for IL certificate)     KU Leuven 4 credits
Instructor: Daniel Vowles (Daniel McCarthy)

Students will encounter Latin literature written by many authors from every age with a focus on: biblica, patristica, liturgica, scholastica, magisteria, musica, canonica. During this course students will learn and develop a facility with the following elements of the Latin language:

• The accusative with the infinitive used in indirect discourse and object sentences,
• The gerund and gerundive and the participle of passive necessity,
• Conditional sentences: if … , then … ,
• The 3% use of the sequence of tenses and modal attraction,
• Verbs of doubting, fearing and prohibiting,
• Oblique complements of verbs and their passive construction,
• Specific usages of the dative, genitive, ablative,
• Overviews of:
  • 14 ways to express purpose,
  • 10 usages of the relative pronoun,
  • Positive and negative commands,

We use the teaching method of Reginald Foster OCD from his book Ossa Latinitatis Sola, and its forthcoming companion volume Ossa Ostensa Book 3 by Laura Pooley. This course covers most of the Fourth Experience in ten weekdays.

The material presumed for this course is listed above for the First and Third Experiences.

Students wishing more instruction are encouraged to enrol also in Reading Cicero’s Letters, LA811.

Canon law students of KU Leuven are encouraged to enrol in this accredited course L711 or the non-accredited course LA711 described above. Both L711 and LA711 are taught together and literature is considered according to the needs of the students enrolled. This course along with the course Reading Cicero’s Letters prepare canonists for the KU Leuven course “Reading of Latin Canonical Texts” (B-KUL-B0B48B). This course was originally designed for liturgists, but includes all the Latin material needed along with a consideration of canonical texts such as Sacrosanctum Concilium, Praenotanda, Decreta and Sententia.

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

Dates: 15 – 26 August, weekdays.

Hours of instruction: Summer courses 2022 are intended to be held in person, but we intend to make them accessible online as well. Our Daily sessions last 3 hours with a break. Hours of instruction will be determined by 4 July to accommodate the location of on-line participants.

Our Registrar, Clare Cogswell, will help students enrol for this course L711 for credit with KULeuven: B-KUL-A07E3A.

Otherwise, students may enrol directly with us for the full not-for-credit course LA711. Fee: £320.

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

LA811 Reading Cicero’s Letters     

Instructor: Jonathan Day
(not for credit – no exams)

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 the late Reginald Foster OCD, 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

Dates: 15 – 26 August (Monday to Friday).

Hours: Summer courses 2022 are intended to be held in person, but we intend to make them accessible online as well. Our Daily sessions last 1 hour and 45 minutes with a brief break. Hours of instruction will be determined by 4 July to accommodate the location of on-line participants.

Fee: £175
Discount fee £150 when this readiing course is taken in combination with LA711 Advanced Latin.

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address.

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 KU Leuven course “Reading of Latin Canonical Texts” (B-KUL-B0B48B). 

Canon Law Students at KU Leuven are encouraged to consider taking our online courses or periodic courses on the Latin language held throughout the academic term. This can help maintain momentum in studying the language and shorten the amount of time needed to arrive at an advanced level of understanding. Please write to Clare to enquire about the availability of online and periodic courses at this linked email address.

FAQs: Frequently asked questions about the summer session

© James Leachman, O.S.B., page updated by DM on 5 February 2022.