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First performed at GTS Follies, May 2009. Recorded here October 2015 in honor of Fr. Robert Wright for his birthday.  Posted Oct 28, 2015, anniversary of the Battle of Milvian Bridge.

Patristics Song
by Bob Fitzpatrick
(Sung to the tune of the Exultet)


Patristics
Councils and creeds and the Church Fathers
Plus Blandina

Patristics
Antony wrestling demons
In the desert
Self flagellation

Patristics
Formation of our priesthood based on ancient witnesses
Homoousios without the middle iota
Pneumatomachi

How wonderful is this course
Meeting authors from the ancient church 
From the man who was there

How wonderful is this course 
Archeological witnesses supplementing the textual record
Egeria and the origins of Holy Week

How wonderful is this course
Slides of Ravenna that became the cover photo for Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Not just the obscure volume on Song of Songs Fr Wright edited but the whole series.

How wonderful is this course
From Plato to apostolic truth 
Mother Church institutionalized under Constantine after the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312
By this sign you shall conquer
Alas for future Protestant perversions

For Anglicanism begins at Bede 
And continues the one holy catholic tradition that shapes and saves the church today from irrelevance, individualism and subjectivism.
The Reformation as the Great Mistake.

J Bob
Accept the sacrifice of our countless preceptorial papers
Our sleepless nights and frustrated spouses who don't understand why we work so hard for this scholar-priest.
May our love for "OLJC" and His catholic tradition be always burning

Amen


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