Message from a friend

Hello everyone!  Happy Advent and Merry Christmas!

 

I just got this email from our classmate Romano who has been stationed in Qatar for the last month and a half.  I thought you might enjoy reading it--I did.

 

Please pray for Romano and all our brave soldiers overseas.

Hi Rob,
 
Hope Monday School has been a success, so far.  I've been here at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, for about six weeks.  I have about a month to go.  Yes, I am reading "Theology and Sanity," among other things ( i.e. The Letters of Mother Teresa, Pope Benedict's first Encyclical).  I don't believe I exaggerate when I say that, aside from the Bible, "Theology ..." is the most important book I've ever read.  I'm on page 270 and I'm just amazed at how much clearer I see God.  I think it should be required reading for every Catholic.  (Our computer firewall prevents me from accessing your blogspot, so I don't know how far along in the book the class is.) 
 
Please say hi to my classmates for me, and you and your family have a blessed Christmas.
 
Sincerely.
Your friend,
 
Romano Cedillos

Class Cancelled 12-17-07

I'm sorry to cancel, but I'm home sick with highly contagious, unpleasant stuff.

We'll pick up in January with the lesson we had planned for tonight.

Hopkins Poems from Week 11

GOD'S GRANDEUR

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

PIED BEAUTY

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

THE WINDHOVER
To Christ Our Lord

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

Week 11: Homework

Reading Assignment:Read Chapter 12 of Theology and Sanity, “Angels, Matter, Men”—pp. 151-173

Questions:
1. What type of being is highest in the created order? How do we know of the existence of these beings? (p.152)

2. What does the word angel mean? Does this word accurately convey the chief function of these beings? What is their chief function? What is their second great function? (p. 155)

3. How are levels of angels differentiated? List the nine choirs of angels. (p. 156-7)

4. In what way does matter resemble spirit? (p. 159)

5. What is the dominating division in the material order? (p. 159)

6. What is the definition of a living being? (p.160)

7. What are the three divisions of the created universe? (p.160)

8. Why does Sheed say “there is no reason to believe that [an animal’s soul] is not a material soul, ‘immersed’ in the matter of the animal’s body?” (p. 162)

9. According to Sheed, what is the function of man? How does man perform it? (p. 163)

10. What makes man different from other living material beings? (p. 164)

11. What is our “greatest glory”? With what is it bound up? (p. 169)

12. What are the two different sets of laws that govern our universe? How are they distinguished? (p. 171)

Reflection Questions:
1. On page 155 Sheed says that “God has shown us with overwhelming evidence that He wills to give His gifts to creatures through other creatures so that we may learn by the receiving of God’s gifts from one another and the transmission of God’s gifts to one another, our family relationship within the great household of God.” What effect might this have on the way we relate to our fellow creatures (men, animals, matter)?

2. Look at what Sheed has to say about how man was formed on page 167. Can you formulate a Catholic response to the theory of evolution based on what he says here?

Funny Joke

There were four country churches in a small Texas town: The Presbyterian Church, the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church and the Catholic Church. Each church was overrun with pesky squirrels.

One day, the Presbyterian Church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration they determined that the squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will.

In the Baptist Church the squirrels had taken up habitation in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a cover on the baptistery and drown the squirrels in it. The squirrels escaped somehow and there were twice as many there the next week.

The Methodist Church got together and decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God's creation. So, they humanely trapped the Squirrels and set them free a few miles outside of town. Three days later, the squirrels were back.

But -- The Catholic Church came up with the best and most effective solution. They baptized the squirrels and registered them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter.

Prayer Before and After Spiritual Reading

Before
Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created.

R. And you shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray.

O God, who has taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that by the gift of the same Spirit we may be always truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation.

Through Christ our Lord. R. Amen.

After
V. We give you thanks, almighty God, for all your benefits, who live and reign for ever and ever.

R. Amen.

V. May the Lord grant us his peace.

R. And life everlasting.

V. Amen.

Week 10: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 11 of Theology and Sanity, “The Created Universe”—pp. 139--151.

Questions:
1. Why did God create a world that is “multitudinous and complex”? (p. 140)

2. Why is the world not “a merely chaotic complexity”? What is it instead? (p. 140)

3. What are the things made in God’s likeness called? What are the rest of the things called? What kind of being is both? (p. 141)

4. How do the Heavens (and everything else) show forth the glory of God? (p. 141)

5. What does Sheed mean when he says that “spirit is more than matter is”? (p. 142)

6. What causes change? (What is change always the result of?) (p. 145).

7. What does it mean to say that created spirit cannot suffer substantial change? What kind of change can created spirit suffer? (p.145)

8. What are the three relations to change? What are the three kinds of duration that correspond to the three relations to change? (pp.145-6)

9. Define contemplation in your own words (pp. 146-7)

10. Is it true that the never was a time when the universe did not exist? Explain. (148)

11. List the truths in the first chapters of Genesis that Sheed says are of “towering importance.” (p.150)

Reflection Questions:
1. Reflect on question 4 above. How is Man different from the rest of creation in showing forth the glory of God?

Week 9: Homework

I'm sorry for putting this up late...I hope it doesn't cause too much trouble!

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 10 of Theology and Sanity, “God as Creator”—pp. 127-139.

Questions:
1. Why did God create the universe? (pp. 127-128; there are two answers)

2. Explain in your words the statement, “For our sakes, He made us for His sake.” (p.1 127)

3. How does the created universe exist? How is this different from how God exists? (p. 130)

4. Why did God make us from nothing? (p.130)

5. What is the difference between creating and making? (p.130)

6. Why is imagining the process of creation from nothing doomed to failure? (p.131)

7. Write out the St. Augustine quotation on page 131. What does it mean?

8. What is the corollary of the truth that God created us from nothing long ago? (p.132)

9. Explain the analogy of the mirror that Sheed uses on page 132.

10. Do all things only really exist in the mind of God? (p.133) What truth do people who think so recognize? What do they fail to grasp? (p.135)

11. What are the two elements in creation envisaged by Scripture? How are these appropriated to the Trinity? (p.137)

12. How does God utter himself in the uncreated? In nothingness? (p.139)

Reflection Questions:
1. Re-read the last paragraph of section ii on page 135. What is the main idea expressed in the Scripture passages mentioned? What kind of effect does (or should) that truth have on our relationship with the created world? In what ways is this different from other worldviews (e.g. Protestant, materialist, etc.)

No Meeting on November 19th.

Just a reminder that we will not be having class on Monday, November 19th, 2007.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

Week 8: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapters 8-9 of Theology and Sanity, “Some Further Precisions” and “Concluding This Part”—pp. 110—123.

Questions:
Chapter 8
1. Why are you a distinct person? (p. 111)

2. Whose words can wholly express God? (p.113)

3. If the Three Persons of the Trinity all possess infinite knowledge, why does only the Father’s generate an idea? (p.113)

4. Upon what does success in finding answers to questions about the Trinity have bearing? (p.114)

5. If our finite nature cannot fully know the Infinite, of what (concerning God) can we be sure? (p.115)

Chapter 9
6. How are we to understand the sendings of the Son and the Holy Spirit? (p.118)

7. Why is Creation attributed to the Father, Sanctification to the Holy Spirit, and Redemption to the Son?

8. Define appropriation. Explain it in your own words.

9. What reason does Sheed suggest for having appropriation?

Reflection Question:
Re-read Section iii of Chapter 9. Now that we’ve finished this part of our study, how your knowledge of God compare to when you started this class? How about your love for Him?

Week 7: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 7 of Theology and Sanity, “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”—pp. 98—110.

Questions:
1. What are we exploring in this chapter? (p.98)

2. God know and loves, for God is a spirit and these are the proper operations of Spirit. What follows from the fact that God is infinite spirit? (p.99)

3. What are the two names for the Second Person of the Trinity given to us in Scripture? (p.99)

4. What two elements constitute the essence of being a son? Give the philosophical definition of sonship. (p. 99)

5. What is God teaching us when He tells us to call the second person of the Trinity “the Son”? (p. 100)

6. Was God ever not a Father? (p.101)

7. What is the only adequate object of infinite knowledge? (p.103)

8. The Second Person of the Trinity proceeds from the First by way of knowledge. How does the Third Person proceed? How does this relate to the operations of spirit? (p. 105)

9. How is the word spirit when used in the term Holy Spirit different from how it used when we speak of God as spirit? (p. 106)

10. What verbs do we use to describe the respective processions of the Second and Third Persons of the Trinity? (p. 107)

Reflection Questions:
1. Read 2 Timothy 1: 7. What kind of spirit has God given us? How does this relate to what we’ve been studying?

The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

This week in class I mentioned the impossibility of knowing our final hour.  I said, "you never know when a cow might land on you and kill you."

One of our classmates then came across this article:

FALLING COW LANDS ON WESTLAND COUPLE'S MINIVAN

MANSON, Wash. -- A Westland couple celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary in Washington State barely escaped disaster when a 600-pound cow fell 200 feet and landed on the hood of their minivan.

The county fire chief says the couple were lucky they weren't killed by the cow that fell off a cliff as they drove on a highway on Sunday.

Charles Everson Jr. and his wife Linda were checked at a hospital as a precaution. The van was heavily damaged, including a broken windshield.
Charles Everson says he kept repeating, "I don't believe this. I don't believe this."

The cow had been reported missing by a breeder. It was euthanized at the scene.

Einstein on the Trinity

Week 6: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 6 of Theology and Sanity, “Three Persons in One Nature”—pp. 88—98.
Questions:
1. Is there any arithmetic involved in the doctrine of the Trinity?
2. Why is it folly / insensitive / callous to not think of the Trinity at all?
3. Why did God reveal the doctrine of the Trinity?
4. What are the words that usually get dropped from the definition of the Trinity? (p.90)
5. What are the 4 statements that set out the doctrine of the Trinity?
6. Why is there no arithmetic involved in the doctrine of the Trinity?
7. What question does nature answer? What person?
8. What kinds of beings are persons?
9. How are nature and person the sources of action?
10. What is an example of anthropomorphism Sheed talks about on p. 94?
11. Do the persons of the Trinity share the divine nature?

Reflection Questions:
1. Has your understanding of the Trinity changed after this chapter? What difference do you think that will make in your relationship with God?

The Song that Made Me Weepy In Class

Last night, during our discussion of Week 4's reflection question, I mentioned a song that always makes me verklempt.

Below are the lyrics to the song and a link to where you can hear it performed by the original artist (I prefer the version of my friend who introduced me to the song, but she's not on the Internet...)

You'll need Real Audio Player to listen.

How Much Do You Think You Are Worth?

Is a rich man worth more than a poor man?
A stranger worth less than a friend?
Is a baby worth more than an old man?
Your beginning worth more than your end?

Is a president worth more than his assassin?
Does your value decrease with your crime?
Like when Christ took the place of Barabbas
Would you say he was wasting his time?

Well, how much do you think you are worth, boy?
Will anyone stand up and say?
Would you say that a man is worth nothing
Until someone is willing to pay?

I suppose that you think you matter
Well, how much do you matter to whom?
It’s much easier at night when with friends and bright lights
Than much later alone in your room

Do you think they’ll miss one in a billion
When you finish this old human race?
Does it really make much of a difference
When your friends have forgotten your face?

If you heard that your life had been valued
That a price had been paid on the nail
Would you ask what was traded,
How much and who paid it
Who was He and what was His name?

If you heard that His name was called Jesus
Would you say that the price was too dear?
Held to the cross not by nails but by love
It was you broke His heart, not the spear!
Would you say you are worth what it cost Him?
You say ‘no’, but the price stays the same.
If it don’t make you cry, laugh it off, pass Him by,
But just remember the day when you throw it away
That He paid what He thought you were worth.

How much do you think He is worth, boy?
Will anyone stand up and say?
Tell me, what are you willing to give Him
In return for the price that He paid?

Graham Kendrick
Copyright © 1974 Make Way Music

Hear it.

Week 5: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 5 of Theology and Sanity, “God Tells Man”—pp. 76—87.

Questions:
1. What are the ways Jesus teaches us about God? (Hint: the answer is in the section titles.)

2. What difference does the Incarnation with respect to our ability to know God?

3. Why did Jesus keep his divinity a secret for so long? Explain.

4. What are some of the things Christ did and said that only God had a right to do and say?

5. What was the “principal fruit” of the Apostles’ three year companionship with Jesus?

6. How do we “vivify all that hard thinking about the Infinite? (p.83).

7. Why are our words and concepts of God, though inadequate, not useless?

8. What “new element in God’s revelation of Himself to men” did Christ reveal?

Reflection Questions:
1. How familiar are you with the words and ministry of Jesus? Have you ever read a Gospel account all the way through? If not start reading one today.

Reality Check

Mark Shea has an interesting article at Catholic Exchange about the modern tendency to misunderstand "realism" and reality.

http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/64095

Week 4: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 4 of Theology and Sanity, “The Mind Works on Infinity”—pp. 61-76.

Questions:
1. Where was God when the universe was created?

2. Why must an infinite being be a spirit? Hint: what are the two kinds of limitations an infinite being is free from?

3. On p. 65, Sheed says that “for all spaceless beings the word ‘where’ has one meaning.” What is it? (Where are spaceless beings?)

4. God’s Immensity is another way of describing what?

5. What is time?

6. What does the phrase “before the universe was created” mean?

7. Does eternity mean time open at both ends? What is the philosophic definition of eternity?

8. On pp. 72-73 Sheed list five limitations on our knowing—three are obvious, two are less so. List all five.

9. Explain (as best you can) how God is His attributes (Knowledge, Love, Justice, Mercy, etc.).

Reflection Questions:
1. Read Matthew 13: 44-46 and then re-read the last paragraph of the chapter. What connections can you make between what Sheed says and the two parables?

Here's another argument for God's existence.

Week 3: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 3 of Theology and Sanity, “He Who Is”—pp. 47-60.

Questions:

1. What are the two modern tendencies about God?

2. Why is dismissing the belief in the true God as a private affair more grotesque than dismissing as private affairs the belief in Moloch (who demanded child sacrifice) or Kali (who demanded followers to strangle strangers)?

3. What are the two ways we can come to a knowledge of God and grow in that knowledge? What is a third, supplementary way?

4. Can the existence of God be known by human reason without the aid of revelation?

5. Why should someone who already accepts God’s existence still study the “proofs” for his existence?

6. What does Sheed say is the primary cause of most people’s unbelief? Do you agree?

7. Restate in your own words the proof of God’s existence using the argument from contingency.

8. Why is a universe with only receivers of existence a contradiction in terms?

9. Who made God?

10. Define nature. (p. 55)

11. What, according to Sheed, is “the primary Truth about God”? How is this truth revealed to the Jewish people?

12. On page 57, Sheed states that whatever perfections are found in created existence must be in God. He goes on to say that knowledge and love are found in created things. What does he conclude from this?

13. Define person. (p.57)

14. Your brain may be full and hurting—don’t give up! Reread the last two paragraphs of the chapter and be encouraged! This way of thinking is hard, but it’s good.

Reflection Questions:

1. Read Luke 11: 5-13. What does this passage say about how we are to seek the Lord? What does it say about those who seek Him?

Concerning Angels

Last night we asked one of our classmates to find out about angels and report back to us. Here is what she discovered. Good Work!!

rosary lady said...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us “Angels are spiritual creatures who glorify God without ceasing” (no.350). Although the Church does not have a formal teaching on guardian angels, it is a traditional belief that every person has their own particular angel. The Church has always held the belief, even designating October 2 as the Feast of the Guardian Angels. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 336, states:


From its beginning until death human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. “Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life” [quoting St. Basil in Adv. Eunomium III, I]. Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God.

God does not create a new angel for each new baby. Angels were created sometime before the creation of the world; they “have been present since creation and throughout the history of salvation” (Catechism no. 332). They are created immortal beings, meaning that they are created (not eternal, like God) and they cannot die. Angels are not separated from us after death, but remain with us in heaven, not to help us attain salvation, but ad aliquam illustrationem (to enlighten us with their angelic ministry) (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica).

If, God forbid, we should not go to heaven, we can assume that our angel would continue, as it has always done, to glorify God unceasingly.

Please Indulge My Vanity...

Today I got an email from Dappled Things informing me that I'm officially published.

Dappled Things is an online (now print as well) literary magazine for young Catholic writers/artists. As of my next birthday, I am no longer a young Catholic (I turn 36 this year). So, this was my last chance to get in.

My poem is called "Bread from Heaven". I hope you enjoy it.

Week 2 Homework (For October 8)

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 2 of Theology and Sanity, “Examination of Intellect”—pp. 30-44.

Summary:
In this chapter, Sheed takes a closer look at the intellect. He describes for us the role of the intellect in religion and then tells us of some of the intellect’s limitations. Some of these limitations are due to our bad habits; others are simply the natural limitations of the human mind. He concludes by cautioning us to be vigilant about staying intellectually fit.

Questions:
Once again, these questions are meant to help you understand the reading, not to exasperate you. If you find that you are dissatisfied with one of your answers, chances are others had similar difficulties. Make sure you mention any thing you need clarified when we go over these in class. Don’t be afraid—we’re all friends here and there’s no final…

1. What is the special function of the intellect in religion?

2. What must be “firmly put in its place” before the intellect can be trained?
Why is this so hard?

3. Define imagination. What is it limited to? Why?

4. What is spirit? What does it lack? What does it do?

5. What are some qualities of material things?

6. What are the three ways imagination interferes with intellect?

7. Explain in your own words the difference between the terms “inconceivable” and “unimaginable”.

8. Can God make an object so heavy He can’t lift it? Explain.

9. What is the first test of any statement concerning spiritual reality?

10. What about the nature of our minds is a “vastly more important limitation” than our imagination?

11. How does Sheed define Mystery?

12. What are three different approaches to dealing with the apparent contradictions in mysterious truths revealed by God?

Reflection Questions
1. On page 31 Sheed says, “...the plain truth about most of us is that we have let our intellects sink into a condition in which they do not have the muscles or the energy or the right habits for the job [of exploring reality], or any effective inclination toward it.” Do you agree with him? Why or why not? If you think he’s right about you, what resolution(s) can you make to improve your intellectual fitness?

2. Reread the first paragraph of section iii. Have you ever had your faith shattered in the way he describes?

Worth a Read

http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/64091

Week 1 Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 1 of Theology and Sanity, “Religion and the Mind”—pp. 21-30.

Questions:
These questions are meant to help you understand the reading. Writing down your answers is a good way to find out if you really understand something. Some of the questions will be more challenging than others.

1. What is does Sheed say his concern is in this book?
2. What are the two faculties of the soul? What is the work of each?
3. Which of the two faculties matters more?
4. What, according to Sheed, does it mean to have a Catholic will and a Catholic intellect?
5. What follows logically from the fact that we are made from nothing? (p. 23)
6. Define “rigidity”. (p.24)
7. How is seeing God everywhere a matter of sanity?
8. What was the point of Sheed’s example of the human eye on page 26?
9. Explain Sheed’s fire analogy on page 29.
10. What is one practical consequence of seeing as the Church sees?

Reflection Questions
1. On page 22 Sheed says, “[W]e have not so much Catholic minds as worldly minds with Catholic patches.” Do you agree with this statement?
2. On page 28 Sheed says, “Many…find the use of the intellect in religion actually repellant…” What has been your attitude towards the use of the intellect in religion?

Worldviews and Amateur Theologians

Everyone has a worldview, that is, a philosophy. There's no escaping this. Even if you are resolved to not think philosophically, that is a philosophy.

Some people see the world only in terms of money--everyone is involved in a class struggle: rich vs. poor; haves vs. have-nots; the common man vs. The Man. Others see the world in terms of evolutionary struggle (Darwinism), sex (Freud), or physical matter (materialists). The Church denies the fatalism of these views and affirms Man's freedom. What's more, the Church affirms the Common Man's ability to know and make sense of the world around him. She affirms our ability to develop an accurate and sane worldview.

This is good news for you and me.

Last Monday I related something that happened the other day at the bookstore. A lady from our class asked me if she'd be able to understand the book we're using in class, Theology and Sanity. I said, "yes", but she remained a little skeptical.

"Well, you're a real theologian."
"No," I replied, "I'm a fake theologian."

Did I mean by this that I was a fraud? No. I simply meant that I'm not a professional theologian--someone who studies Theology for a living. I am an amateur--one who studies Theology out of loving.

Karl Barth, a famous Protestant theologian, once said, "The Word became flesh and, through theologians, it became words again." Sadly, many of us can attest to the truth of that statement. Or, at least we can agree that a lot of our religious training has felt more like curling up with a dictionary than going for a walk with a friend. But, just because so many professional theologians have complicated things, there's no reason to dismiss Theology as a useless subject, a field of inquiry for elitists and snobs. On the contrary, our Church has an illustrious history of amateur theologians.

From St. Peter (a Galilean fisherman) to St. John Vianney (a notoriously bad student) to G.K. Chesterton to Mother Theresa, the Church is full of people who loved God without PhDs and who sought to know Him to the best of their abilities. We can all do this. We can all strive to know God better and to see reality from his perspective.

Frank Sheed asserts that a Catholic worldview is the only sane worldview. Why? Because it sees the world the way it really is. The Catholic Church has confidence that all of us can do this.

As amateur theologians in this Monday School class, this is ultimately what we're after--to know God and understand the world He gave us.

What is Monday School?

Monday School is a “Theology for Beginners” course.
Many of us stopped actively learning about our faith when we finished our childhood Sunday School classes. So, while our knowledge of secular subjects has grown and matured throughout our lives, our knowledge of Church teaching is often very elementary. Monday School is a remedy for this. It is what should have come after Sunday School but didn’t.

Even though we will look at Scripture, pray for each other, and learn how to give reasons for our faith, this class is not a Bible study, a prayer meeting, or an apologetics class. In the Scripture passage quoted in this blog's header, St. Paul speaks of giving up childish ways once he became a man. That’s what Monday School is all about: how to think and act like a grown-up Catholic.

Monday School is Underway!

We had our first meeting last night and I was pleased to see so many faces. This blog will be updated regularly throughout the course of the class, so come back often!