2 Timothy 2

How appropriate to be posting the notes from our last meeting on the Feast of Sts. Timothy and Titus!

This lesson included some excellent metaphors for what it means to be a disciple.  We are to be like soldiers (Confirmation gives us the grace to be defenders of the faith!), athletes, and farmers.  It would be a good exercise to meditate further about what that means.  During our meeting we discussed how each of these vocations requires dedication, devotion, obedience, forbearance, self-sacrifice--to name just a few.  True, Paul is writing about priests, bishops, and other consecrated persons, but what he is saying applies to lay people as well.  We are to cultivate all of the same virtues as we serve our family--the Domestic Church--and our Church family as well.

Here are my notes from the lesson:
Notes for 2 Timothy 2.

See you on February 5 for 2 Timothy 3. 

2 Timothy 1

Sorry that it's taken me so long to post the notes from our last lesson.  Of course, it always seems that the more time we have to accomplish something, the longer it takes us to do so.  Procrastination.

It worked out beautifully to start the new year with a new Pauline letter, 2 Timothy.  Our first lesson was jam packed with introductory material and covering the initial chapter.  This next lesson should move at a more leisurely pace--we would imagine.

Here are my personal notes from the first chapter of 2 Timothy:
Notes 2 Timothy 1

See you on January 22 for 2 Timothy 2, Catholic Commentary pgs.156-176.