Matrimony and Holy Orders For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. -Luke 9:24 This week we are discussing the final two sacraments that consecrate people for service to the whole Church: Matrimony and Holy Orders. These are known asContinue reading “Session 21: Sacraments of Service and Communion”
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Session 20: Penance and Anointing of the Sick
God’s Mercy Revealed Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night thy handContinue reading “Session 20: Penance and Anointing of the Sick”
Session 18: Sacrament of Confirmation
On a Mission For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:6-7 Participating in the sevenContinue reading “Session 18: Sacrament of Confirmation”
Session 15: Walk through the Mass
Exploring the Sacred Liturgy For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In theContinue reading “Session 15: Walk through the Mass”
Session 14: The Eucharist as a Sacrifice
Selfless acts of love “Not that [Christ] might offer Himself there again and again, as the high priest enters year after year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so He would have had to suffer death over and over from the creation of the world. But now HeContinue reading “Session 14: The Eucharist as a Sacrifice”
Session 13: The Story of the Eucharist
Exploring our Jewish Roots I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” -John 6:51 This week’s continuation of the discussion of the Eucharist we take aContinue reading “Session 13: The Story of the Eucharist”
Session 12: The Eucharist
Source and Summit of Christian Life So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him upContinue reading “Session 12: The Eucharist”
Session 11: The Sacraments
Baptism and Confirmation Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walkContinue reading “Session 11: The Sacraments”
The Small Pencil Catechist 