Institute of the Holy Doctors

Dear Friends, it has been a long time since we've posted, but we are alive and well at IHD and in the full swing of our third year as a Catholic College here in the Saint Louis Area! We just graduated our first class of five with their Associates Degrees in Catholic Theology on the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua (June 13th), and this year, we are beginning our first remote/distance-learning classes. We are also now on Twitter so you can follow us at https://twitter.com/holydoctors. Our website will undergo several updates in the coming months so keep an eye out for those exciting changes as well. We have so much to be grateful for, and are so thankful for all of your continued prayers. More exciting news ahead!
We will be posting more frequently with updates on IHD and also including some inspiring quotes from the Holy Doctors themselves (see quote from today's Saint below) with some savable/printable pictures for your daily inspiration. We pray each post from IHD inspires each of you to holiness as we continue to glean wisdom from these thirty-six men and women recommended to us by Jesus Christ through his Most Holy Church. Happy Feast of the "Golden-Mouthed" St. John Chrysostom!

We are excited to welcome Dr. Stephen Pieper to speak on St. Augustine of Hippo this evening at Saint Gianna Parish in Wentzville. Please join us tonight at 7pm for the fourth installment of the IHD Speaker Series! To find out more about the Institute of the Holy Doctors, take a look at the video below. Stay tuned for upcoming dates for information meetings and college visit days!.
https://vimeo.com/153740041

What is the Institute of the Holy Doctors? This video provides general information on the type of education students receive at the Institute of the Holy Doctors in Saint Louis, Missouri

Happy Feast of Saint John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Universal Church! Our Journal Curriculum for this year is published and will be entrusted to our students in the morning for this coming year. We have so many exciting things to learn and discuss this year! Holy Doctors, pray for us!

So happy to finish our first full year here in a few weeks and gearing up for year two! So proud of each of our students who are working so hard on their studies and learning what it means to Think with the Mind of the Church!

Happy Feast of the Great Doctor: Cyril of Alexandria! Our Summer is bustling and time is running short if you'd like to apply for classes next year. Student housing is available for those outside of Saint Louis. Visit holydoctors.org to request an application.

Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor - June 27, 2016 - Liturgical... St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, one of the metropolitan sees of the Christian Church in the east, was one of the great defenders of the faith against the heresy of Nestorius who denied the oneness of person in Jesus Christ. At the Council of Ephesus in 431, over which he presided in the pope's

Happy Feast of the Doctor: Anthony of Padua!
Time is running short on our busy application season. If you would like to be considered for enrollment in the 2016-2017 Academic Year please visit our website to request an application by clicking here: http://holydoctors.org/admissions.htm

St. Anthony of Padua, priest & doctor - June 13, 2016 - Liturgical Calendar St. Anthony was born at Lisbon, Portugal. He bacame a canon regular and then a Franciscan preaching the Gospel everywhere in Portugal and Italy. Both as a theologian and as a popular preacher he fought vigorously against heresy. His preaching was inspired by the love of God and of souls and had an

Happy Feast of the "Harp of the Holy Spirit": St. Ephrem! Below is a quote from his hymns on the Blessed Virgin Mary and Our Redeemer:

"But Mary budded forth, a new shoot from Eve the ancient vine; and new life dwelt in her, that when Death should come confidently after his custom to feed upon mortal fruits, the life that is slayer of death might be stored up against him; that when Death should have swallowed up the fruits without fear, he might vomit them forth and with them many. For He Who is the Medicine of life flew down from heaven, and was mingled in the body, the mortal fruit. And when Death came to feed after his custom the life in His turn swallowed up Death. This is the food that hungered to eat its eater. So then, by one fruit which Death swallowed hungrily, he vomited up many lives which he had swallowed greedily. The hunger then which hurried him against one, emptied out his greed which had hurried him against many. Thus Death was diligent to swallow one, but was in haste to set many free. For while One was dying on the cross, many that were buried from within Sheol were coming forth at His cry.... He, whose stomach is disordered, vomits forth both that which is sweet to him and that which is not sweet. So the stomach of Death was disordered, and as he was vomiting forth the medicine of life which had sickened it, he vomited forth along with it also those lives that had been swallowed by him with pleasure."

Happy Memorial!

Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, deacon and doctor - June 09, 2016 - Liturgical Calendar St. Ephrem, called

Don't forget that tonight is an information meeting for the Institute of the Holy Doctors which will be held at St Gianna Catholic Church in Wentzville beginning at 7pm in the Parish Hall.
Happy Feast of the Great Doctor of the Church: Bede the Venerable! Click on the link below to learn more about this man's amazing life.

Optional Memorial of St. Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor; St. Gregory VII, pope; St. Mary... St. Bede was born in England. A Benedictine, he was

Is God leading you to be a student at IHD this Fall, or in the near future? Join us this Wednesday Night, May 25th, as we gather for an information meeting at St. Gianna Parish from 7pm-8:30pm. There will be a brief presentation, a time for Q & A, and refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there!

Institute of the Holy Doctors: What Do I Want for My Education? Video from the Institute of the Holy Doctors at holydoctors.org

Happy Feast of one of the newest Doctors of the Universal Church: John of Avila! Below is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's Apostolic Letter from 2012 proclaiming him a Doctor. Don't forget our information meeting coming up on May 25th here in Saint Louis!

Apostolic Letter proclaiming John of Ávila as a Doctor of the Church (7 October 2012) | BENEDICT XVI Apostolic Letter proclaiming John of Ávila as a Doctor of the Church (7 October 2012)

It's Still the Feast of Saint Athanasius in the Western part of the U.S! We can thank this man for many things including the Bible we hold in our hands today.

Memorial of St. Athanasius, bishop and doctor - May 02, 2016 - Liturgical Calendar St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria and a great defender of the orthodox faith, throughout his life opposed the A***n heresy. By denying the Godhead of the Word the A***ns turned Christ into a mere man, only higher in grace than others in the eyes of God. St. Athanasius took part in the Council

Today is the Institute of the Holy Doctors first anniversary! We are so grateful for all of God's many blessings from this past year and so excited to see what he has in store in the years to come! Thank you all for your continued prayers for us at IHD that we fulfill our vision which is "To Revitalize the Culture with Living Christs" by fulfilling our mission: "...to cultivate students who think with the Mind of the Church and love with the Heart of Christ." Happy Feast of the Great Doctor, St. Catherine of Siena!

Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor - April 29, 2016 - Liturgical Calendar Catherine Benincasa, born in Siena at a date that remains uncertain, was favored with visions from the age of seven. Becoming a tertiary of the Dominican Order, she acquired great influence by her life of prayer and extraordinary mortifications as well as by the spread of her spiritual writings.