Today I was a visiting lecturer at Wheaton College in Illinois. I gave my lecture via Zoom at the invitation of Dr Matthew Milliner. I entitled the lecture: “An Introduction to the Venerable S. Bede’s Commentary on the Song of Songs.”

After the lecture, Dr Milliner (a friend whom have known for about ten years) tweeted:

… which made me laugh. Dr. Milliner also called me afterward and indicated that the lecture went over very well with his students. I hope to do this again sometime!

I offer the audio of the lecture above for you to hear. I hope it helps you understand how important the Venerable Bede is, and that he is misunderstood as the “historian of the Church,” as he is sometimes called. To rightly understand this important Church Father is to see him primarily as an interpreter of Holy Scripture.

In the lecture I reference this icon of S. Bede, painted by Aidan Hart (my daughter’s icon teacher):

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