{"id":527,"date":"2011-12-07T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2011\/12\/saint-ambrose-silent-reader.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:03:53","slug":"saint-ambrose-silent-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2011\/12\/saint-ambrose-silent-reader.html","title":{"rendered":"Saint Ambrose, Silent Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Whenever I think of the great Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan and doctor of the church,\u00a0I remember a piece of trivia I learned while reading the Confessions <\/i>of Saint Augustine in college.<\/p>\n

Saint Ambrose is remembered for his great knowledge and wisdom. \u00a0Few of his\u00a0contemporaries\u00a0surpassed him in courage and astuteness. \u00a0His greatest student was Saint Augustine of Hippo who arrived to Milan in 384 to teach at an imperial school. \u00a0Augustine speaks of Ambrose, in particular the influence this great learned man had on him, who was still a young, non-Christian who\u00a0desperately\u00a0yearned for Truth.<\/p>\n

Among the many things Augustine notes of Ambrose, he writes this, \u201cAmbrose was an extraordinary reader. \u00a0When he read his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. \u00a0Anyone could approach him freely and guests were not commonly announced, so that often, when we came to visit him, we found his reading like this in silence, for he never read aloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the trivia knowledge of Saint Ambrose: he read in his head, he did not read out loud. \u00a0This may sound silly to us moderns, but some argue this passage from Augustine\u2019s Confessions <\/i>is the first recorded description of a human being reading silently in Western culture. \u00a0Historically human beings when reading would read out loud. \u00a0If you look at texts and inscriptions from antiquity into the medieval world, you notice there is very little if any punctuation and that all letters are jammed together. \u00a0By reading out loud, the reader would decipher when words began and ended. \u00a0Words were written to be pronounced, not to be kept to oneself.<\/p>\n

Today the local Milanese Church continues to use one of the ancient rites of the Latin Church named after Ambrose, the Ambrosian Rite. \u00a0Most of us are \u00a0familiar with the Roman Rite which dominates in Western Europe and the New World. \u00a0If you go to Mass in Milan, be prepared for things to be done a little bit differently!<\/p>\n

Pictured below is the fifth century Basilica of Saint Ambrose in Milan where the saint is buried next to two faithful deacons. \u00a0Also pictured are ruins of the old\u00a0baptistery\u00a0of Milan where Saint Augustine was baptized by Saint Ambrose himself.<\/p>\n

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Let us pray.<\/div>\n
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O God, who made the Bishop Saint Ambrose<\/div>\n
a teacher of the Catholic faith<\/div>\n
and a model of apostolic courage,<\/div>\n
raise up in your Church men after your own heart<\/div>\n
to govern her with courage and wisdom.<\/div>\n
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,<\/div>\n
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit<\/div>\n
one God, for ever and ever.<\/div>\n
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Amen.<\/div>\n
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