Class will be NOT meeting for the rest of 2018.
We'll be back January 6, weather permitting.
Last time, we discussed the fourth chapter of Theology of the Body for Teens: "Hope & Redemption in Christ." Previously, in chapter 3, we looked at the beauty of the original plan and how it sadly went wrong. Now we see how Christ redeems and restores. Key points:
Class date: 12/16/18
Quotes:
“That, for both the wise ancient pagans like Aristotle and the even wiser Christian moral tradition, was the real horror of vice or sin: it turned the potential glorious thing, a human being, into a deformed parody, a mockery, a pitiful creature enslaved in his own self-destructiveness, body and soul. To put it in St. Augustine's concise terms, sin is its own punishment.” - Dr. Benjamin Wiker, "Addiction or Sinful Habit?"
“In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us.” – Pope St. John Paul II
“Confession is an act of honesty and courage. It's an act of entrusting ourselves beyond the sin to the mercy of a Loving and Forgiving God.” – Pope St. John Paul II
Article:
Class will NOT be meeting next Sunday, December 9.
We will meet the following Sunday, December 16.
Last time, we went over the third chapter of Theology of the Body for Teens: "Naked Without Shame." Key points:
Class date: Dec 2, 2018
Quotes:
“The spousal meaning of the body refers to the body’s power to express love: precisely that love in which the human person becomes a gift and—through this gift—fulfills the very meaning of his being and existence."
~ Pope St. John Paul the Great (TOB 15:1).
Article:
In class, I used a portion of the following article in analyzing and explaining the use of story as a teaching method in Genesis --
You were made for communion:
