Fr. Reginald Foster’s Funeral Homily — Discalced Carmelite Friars

https://flic.kr/p/9SWcaA Photographer John Piazza writes, “Summer 2002, Rome. If you see this photo anywhere else, know that I took it. Rollei 35, Kodak Tri-X” (©John Piazza, all rights reserved) This homily was preached at the funeral of Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD on January 21, 2021, at Holy Hill Basilica by Fr. Michael Berry, OCD, Provincial. I wish to first welcome Fr. Reginald’s family, the…

One of the great unrealized dreams of my life was to take one of Father Foster’s summer courses in Latin. What a character and a genuine treasure for breathing new life into an ancient language and creating generations of new “Latin Lovers”. 

While most of the neo-Latin terminology I've seen appertaining to the microblogging platform Twitter has been built around the verb pipiare, I am not surprised that Fr. Reginald Foster, a.k.a. Reggie, has his own – elegant and classical – take on things: breviloqui.