The Benedict Year › Reading Backwards from the Pascha › Unit 6 · Wisdom
Week 21 · 15–19 February 2027 · Lent
Wisdom on earth
Unit 6 · Wisdom: Wisdom appeared on earth and lived among men. That is the unit; don’t inflate it.
Session A · the reading
About 55 minutes. Open and read aloud before any framing: no introduction, no “today we’re looking at”. Scripture first, then the Father.
- Baruch 3:9–4:4; John 1:14
Session B · the argument
About 35 minutes, on another day. Never both in one sitting.
The four senses. The Latin couplet: Littera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia. The letter teaches what happened; allegory what to believe; the moral sense what to do; the anagogical sense where you are heading. The child has practised all four since September. The last one is the year’s own: where you are heading.
What is it for?. The law. Baruch answers (4:1).
The Tile Board
Add a card: Wisdom living among men, with the passage and today’s date. Pencil a line to another card only if the child sees one.
Books this week
Optional: one piece of media
The Karate Kid (1984). Watched together, with nothing said about why it was chosen; how the list was made.
Explain, calmly, why Baruch is in a Catholic Bible and not a Protestant one.
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