Waypoints in Church History Episode 1: Introduction

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Waypoints in Church HistoryEpisode 1
Introduction

• Dr. Ann T. Orlando
• Music O Happy Band of Pilgrims

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Place Waypoints

• A waypoint is a place along the way to a final
  destination
• As individuals and as Church we are pilgrims on
  our way to the kingdom of God
• Personal waypoints
• Pilgrim Church also has waypoints
• Locations where especially important events and
  people shaped the route of the Churchs corporate
  pilgrimage
• But destination is always the same the heavenly
  Jerusalem

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Introduction

• Purpose of this series to introduce the viewer
  to Catholic Church History
• Method Use a location (waypoint) as the center
  for each episode
• Instructor Dr. Ann T. Orlando, professor of
  Patristics and Church History at St. John
  Seminary, Brighton, MA and Blessed John XXIII
  Seminary, Weston, MA

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Place Series Waypoints

• Cenacle, Jerusalem
• Coliseum, Rome
• St. John Lateran Baptistery, Rome
• Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Constantinople)
• Iona, Scotland and Monte Cassino, Italy
• Aachen Cathedral, Germany
• Assisi, Italy
• Notre Dame, Paris
• Sistine Chapel, Vatican
• Church of the Gesu, Rome
• Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico
• St. Peters Basilica, Vatican

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• World map with waypoints on it

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Episode 1 Objectives

• History in time and space
• Introduce historical eras or periods
• Introduce waypoints for each era

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Time Most Important Historical Division A.D. and
B.C.

• Birth of Jesus Christ is the most important
  moment in human history
• B. C. Before Christ
• Time before Christs birth and is measured
  backwards from his birth
• 300 B.C. is earlier than 200 B.C.
• A.D. Anno Domini or The Year of the Lord
• Time since Christs birth
• We are now in the 21st Century after Christs
  birth
• In the last 25 years many news and scholarly
  journals have replaced B.C. and A.D. with B.C.E.
  and C.E.
• B.C.E. Before Common Era
• C.E. Common Era

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Time Historical Eras or Periods

• Invention of later historians
• Convenient for organizing events and people as
  related to each other
• Division between one era and another are
  sometimes obvious, some times not
• But even obvious divisions are dependent on
  objective of historian
• Important Church history divisions are different
  from history of politics, technology or economics

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Timeline of Historical Periods
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Waypoints in Time

• Timeline with waypoints on it

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Expectations and Limits

• Expectations
• Introduction to history of the Catholic Church
• Understanding of roots of some contemporary
  issues
• Provide a framework for continued investigation
• Limitations
• Many, many important events, people, places will
  not be discussed

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Next Episode..

• First Waypoint the Cenacle, Jerusalem
• The birth of the Church
• Apostles and the Early years of Christianity
• Beginning of persecutions