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the following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether he acts better who presents himself for an election canonically made for him, or he who refuses it.
¶ Second: Whether Trajan was liberated from the pains of hell through the prayers of Blessed Gregory.
¶ Third: Whether it is consistent with the perfection of the papacy to possess earthly riches or faculties as if they were one's own.
¶ On the feast of Blessed Benedict the Gospel is: No one lights a lamp, etc. Luke 11. Regarding this, the following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether Blessed Benedict, in lighting the lamp of the monastic rule and placing it on the candelabra of the church, established the monks living in community more conveniently than those living a solitary life.
¶ Second: Whether Blessed Benedict, in the vision in which he saw the whole world, saw the Divine essence.
¶ On the feast of the Annunciation of the Lord the Gospel is: The angel was sent, etc. Luke 1. Regarding this, the following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether it was necessary for the conception of the Son of God to be announced to the Virgin.
¶ Second: Whether the annunciation ought to have been made to the Blessed Virgin by an angel.
¶ Third: Whether the annunciation was perfected in a convenient order.
¶ On the feast of Blessed Ambrose the Gospel is: Watch, etc. Matthew 24. Regarding this, the following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether it is permitted to refuse an enjoined bishopric entirely, or to resist entirely a canonical election or provision made for oneself.
¶ Second: Whether a faithful and prudent servant whom the Lord has set over his family sins mortally if he does not distribute the ecclesiastical goods he acquires to the poor.
¶ Third: Whether Ambrose acted well in excommunicating the emperor.
¶ On the feast of Blessed Vincent the master in theology is the Gospel: No one lights, etc. Luke 11. Regarding this, it can be
disputed the following questions:
¶ First: Whether a learned religious from the mendicant orders can assume the magisterial degree while in a state of perfection.
¶ Second: Whether the time of the coming of Christ to judgment can be known.
¶ On the feast of Mark the Evangelist is the Gospel: I am the vine, etc. John 15. Regarding this, the following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether a faithful person can bear any fruit in the present life unless he remains in Christ the true vine through faith and unfeigned charity.
¶ Second: Whether Blessed Mark is conveniently designated among the evangelists by the figure of the lion.
¶ Third: Whether it was lawful for Blessed Mark to amputate his own finger so that he might be considered unworthy of the priesthood.
¶ On the feast of Blessed Peter Martyr of the Order of Preachers is the Gospel: If anyone wishes to come after me, etc. Matthew 16. Regarding this, the following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether it is necessary to deny oneself, take up one's cross, and follow Christ for the attainment of eternal beatitude.
¶ Second: Whether Blessed Peter Martyr is said to be endowed with a triple aureole a crown of merit for special excellence.
¶ On the feast of the apostles Philip and James is the Gospel: At that time, He said, etc. Let not your heart be troubled, etc. John 14. The following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether explicitly believing in the mystery of the incarnation of Christ is of the necessity of salvation.
¶ Second: Whether explicitly believing in the Trinity of the divine persons is of the necessity of salvation.
¶ Third: Whether one of the divine persons can be known while another is not known.
¶ On the feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross is the Gospel: There was a man of the Pharisees, etc. John 3. Regarding this, the following questions can be disputed:
¶ First: Whether the comparison was convenient when it is said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert."