Rusticatio Omnibus Experience: Summer 2019\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frater Paschalis, Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, vel simpliciter \u201cFra\u201d\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Br. Paschal Pautler, O.S.B. It was not until the third day that I realized I had only been thinking in the present\nmoment. I was not thinking of what was going on back at my home, some 700 miles south; I\nwas not thinking about what would be for lunch in a few hours; I was not thinking about what I\nhad learned yesterday. No. My whole experience was in the present moment. And better yet,\nmy whole present moment was in Latin. Yet, I only realized that fact on the third day. Thinking\nin the present moment may seem like an odd detail to focus on as I recount my first experience at\nRusticatio Omnibus, yet I think that detail is what makes Rusticatio such a success, such a\nphenomenal program.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n While some might think that being surrounded by a foreign language is sufficient to learn\nthe language, that is not the case. Immersion, as we know from its Latin root, means to be\ndipped in something. Immersion means to absorb and be changed by that in which we are\nimmersed. That complete dipping, being baptized by full immersion as one might say, is what\nRusticatio Omnibus created for me.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of letting my nerves get the best of me or keep me at a distance from real\nlearning, the relaxed environment and casual conversation allowed me to live in the Latin\nmoment. Instead of worrying about how to decline nouns or conjugate verbs into the tenses I\nneeded as I told a story at the dinner table, words just came. They were not always right or fitted\nwith the perfect ending, yet I was learning nonetheless. Instead of gazing distantly at the sea of\nLatin around me, I was swimming in it; I was really experiencing and using one of the world\u2019s\ngreatest languages: the Latin language.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The profound immersive learning I experienced was no chance of fate. Undoubtedly it\nwas due to the fine guidance and teaching of the Rusticatio Omnibus staff. These men and\nwomen could not have been more kind, more helpful, more enjoyable. The many pictures they\ndrew, explanations they gave, and time they took to listen to my broken sentences were just a\nfew of the pedagogical tools which made my experience of Rusticatio one which has changed\nmy knowledge of Latin.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a student of Latin and someone who is deeply committed to passing down the Latin\nlanguage in both the academic and ecclesial worlds, I can say that Rusticatio Omnibus was a life\nchanging experience for me. Rusticatio gave me, for the first extended time, the chance to live in\nLatin. I therefore recommend Rusticatio Omnibus most highly to anyone who wants to be\nimmersed in Latin, to let the Latin sink in. There is no better way to live in the Latin moment.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rusticatio Omnibus Experience: Summer 2019 Frater Paschalis, Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, vel simpliciter \u201cFra\u201d Br. Paschal Pautler, O.S.B. St. Bernard Abbey, Cullman, Alabama, USA It was not until the third day… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2221\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latin.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSt. Bernard Abbey, Cullman, Alabama, USA\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n