For over nine years, groups of men have been gathering in the school dining room on Saturday mornings to challenge each other in learning our faith and becoming better witnesses to the Gospel at home, in our neighborhoods and at work.
This year’s TRUTH series combines three programs that will focus us on increasing our own faith and understanding while being able to more effectively share God’s truth in a world that sometimes doesn’t believe truth even exists.
In Happiness, Suffering, and the Love of God, we’ll look at how differing views of happiness can drive greater or lesser faith in God and how we view suffering, often a major stumbling block in one’s belief and trust in God. In Who Am I To Judge?, we’ll learn how to effectively dialog in a world that increasing views any discussion on morality as offensive. Finally, in Queen of Heaven, we’ll focus on our Blessed Mother and how she’ll strengthen us to help others grow in their love of her Son.
There are workbooks/study guides for each of these programs that contain great information and I've provided the links to them below. Feel free to order any of them directly. We also plan to have handouts with the discussion questions each week for those of you who choose not to get yourselves the workbooks.
Happiness, Suffering, and the Love of God Workbook:
Here are the topics and current dates for the 26 weeks of sessions... On "off" weeks we will hold men's prayer group where we discuss the following Sunday's Mass readings.
Happiness, Suffering, and the Love of God
9/9/17 - Four Levels of Happiness: Intro and Happiness Overview
9/16/17 - Four Levels of Happiness: Escaping the Comparison Game
9/23/17 - Human Transcendence and the Soul: Evidence for Transcendence
9/30/17 - Human Transcendence and the Soul: You Are Made For Transcendence
10/7/17 - Resurrection of Jesus and Jesus’ Revelation of the Unconditional Love of God: The Resurrection
10/14/17 - Resurrection of Jesus and Jesus’ Revelation of the Unconditional Love of God: The Love of God
10/21/17 - Why Would an All-Powerful, All-Loving God Allow Suffering?: Jesus’ View of Suffering
11/4/17 - Why Would an All-Powerful, All-Loving God Allow Suffering?: Why Does God Allow Suffering?
11/11/17 - How to Suffer Well: Prayer
12/2/17 - How to Suffer Well: Virtue
The Third Way: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church
12/16/17 - Watch a Video Clip
Who Am I To Judge?: Responding to Relativism with Logic and Love
1/6/18 - “Don’t Impose Your Morality on Me!”
1/1318 - Recovering the Basics: Virtue and Friendship
1/20/18 - Real Freedom, Real Love
1/27/18 - The Lost “Art of Living”
2/3/18 - Engaging Moral Relativism
2/10/18 - “I Disagree” Doesn’t Mean “I Hate You”
2/17/18 - Exposing the Mask: What Relativism is Often Covering Up
2/24/18 - What is Truth? - Common Questions About Moral Relativism
Order Who Am I to Judge Study Guide
Queen of Heaven: Mary’s Battle for You
3/3/18 - The Battle Begins: The Woman & The Serpent
3/10/18 - The Annunciation: The Day Creation Held Its Breath
3/17/18 - The Sorrowful Mother: A Sword Shall Pierce Your Soul
3/24/18 - Mother of the Church: All Generations Will Call Me Blessed
4/7/18 - Guadalupe: Mother of the Americas
4/14/18 - Lourdes: I am the Immaculate Conception
4/21/18 - Fatima: The Lady of the Rosary
5/5/18 - The Consecration: My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph
PLEASE invite your friends (whether they are parishioners at St. Catherine's or not). This is going to be a great year and the topics we'll cover will help us all. As always there is no commitment to attend every session....
If you are interested in attending, or for more information please complete the form below.
Saturdays from 7:00 to 8:30 AM in the school dining room beginning September 9, 2017. On weeks that we do not have a video, we usually meet for Lectio Divina, a prayerful reading and discussion of the Sunday readings.