Mike Aquilina gets what my title means by the term “well-versed”, and if you have been following his Way of the Fathers podcast, you just might get it, too. For a big hint, see episode 28, Ephrem, Symbolist. In this episode you will learn something that is quite startling to us: There was a Syrian Catholic tradition of preaching in verse. It turns out that St. Ephrem, a particularly brilliant theologian and defender of the Faith, was a poetic dynamo in his teaching and preaching.