<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>
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<p>Even though it's is only an optional memorial, I want to point out three things about Saint Albert the Great that strike me as salient even in our day and age. The first two go together. He is credited with being the thinker who really separated theology from philosophy. Now, there can be a down side to that, in the sense that this is the crossover into Scholasticism, and the moment in the evolution of consciousness when the rational mind starts conquering the mythic one and the slow decline of the sapiential learning that was more common in the patristic era.</p>
