Lesson Eight: How to Live at Home

All you have to do is read the first few verses of the scripture for this week's lesson, and you'll know we're in for a good discussion.  It should be interesting.
 
Study Guide Lesson Eight


We will also finish up the end of Chapter 35 in the U.S. Catechism, pgs. 468-480, on prayer. 

If you are interested in printing out my notes from Lesson 7, scroll down and you'll find the link in the posting just prior to this one.

Stay warm!  See you on Jan 30th.

Lesson Seven Update

Lucky for us, no one got blown away on the way to church for this week's meeting!  Holy smokes, it was a blast of cold air!  What does Father say?  The Frozen Chosen.

We had a good discussion about Forgiveness and Charity/Love.  These are two virtues that are often the most difficult to practice. 

As promised, I will attach a copy of my notes for the lesson.  You can read the wisdom of our wonderful Pope Francis and the ever-brilliant C.S. Lewis.  Oh, and the list of Four Things that Forgiveness is NOT by Father Dave.

We also spent some time talking about prayer.  It is the topic of the portion of the Catechism we were asked to read with this lesson.  Yesterday's essay about St. Alphonsus Mary Liguouri in the Magnificat included a beautiful quote from his writings regarding prayer: "Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends."  Not bad.

Lesson Seven Notes

I will try and have the guide for the next lesson posted early next week.  Now that we're settled back in to my favorite Ordinary Time, I should be able to stick to my schedule.

Lesson Seven: Dressed in Holy Clothes

Ready to get started again?  I do hope that everyone had a good break, enjoying all the Christmas and New Year's celebrations.  The weather has been challenging though, hasn't it?

Our first lesson of the New Year is packed with all kinds of interesting topics to discuss.  I am planning to spend a good deal of our meeting talking about forgiveness and charity.  These are tough virtues to practice and ones that are sometimes misunderstood.

Sorry, but the lesson guide is long.  I tried my best to chop it down to two pages and just couldn't do it.

Lesson Seven Study Guide

And, once I started reading our Catechism chapter, I knew that I had made a mistake by scheduling only one week each to discuss the last two chapters of the book.  As long as we have some extra time in the year's study, I would like to scrap the original timeline I made for the end Catechism so that we can give proper due to the topic of prayer.  So, I would like you to read the essay at the beginning of the chapter through to pg.468 for our next meeting.  We will cover the rest of the chapter later.

By  the way, here are my notes for our last lesson if you would like to look them over.

Lesson Six Notes

See you all on January 16.  (Minus the lucky snowbirds, of course.)