Non Angli, sed Angeli.

The ruins of Lindisfarne Priory.
Thomas Girtin. 1798.

Yesterday and this last Friday were two special days on the Church Calendar. On Friday was the Feast Day of Saint Aidan of Iona, one of the "illuminators" of the Book of Kells and founder of Lindisfarne in 635, an Abbey that Christianized much of North England. Aidan was part of the fruit of Saint Patrick's ministry in Ireland. But even before Brother Aidan could preach the gospel in manuscripts too beautiful for the world, Rome would find it's own heart broken for the beauty of people who were "non Angli, sed Angeli." Such were words spoken by Pope Gregory the Great in the twilight of the 6th century, and it was his conviction that bade Augustine of Canterbury to bring the gospel to those barbaric chieftains. And when those Roman Christians came north they found those Irish Christians sowing the gospel south. We owe much of our Christian heritage to the work and ministry of Saint Gregory and Saint Aidan, whose feast day was yesterday. Who says God did not want England? For even the story of England is no story at all without the Church.
 
Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Confessions Exam-Part I
1. Short answer: 2-5 sentences per question.
3. Read and study Bede's Ecclesiatical History of the English People together.
4. Review HW: 
1. Study for Confessions Essay (ICE)
2. Read Book I of Bede (9/23)
3. Be good.