2017 Class

Class date: 03/18/18

If you missed class or want to review:

• Is Purgatory a Catholic Invention? No Way by Tim Staples **
• Alternatively, you may wish to listen to the audio recording Purgatory: The Fire of God's Love (details below) **

More helpful articles and sites:

• The Burning Truth About ...

Class date: 18 Mar 2018

Purgatory & Prayer for the Dead

• Open with prayer

1. How are purgatory and praying for the dead related? (Praying for the dead only makes sense if there is a Purgatory, i.e. a place where the dead can be helped by our prayers.)
2. What does the ...

Class date: 3/4/18

If you missed class or want to review:

• "Apologetics for the Scripturally Challenged" by John Martignoni, This Rock, May/June 2004 **
• "How to Be Offensive ... Without Being Offensive" by John Martignoni, This Rock, Oct 2004. **

More helpful articles and ...

Class date: 3/4/18

Please click below for the answer key to the class handout for today's class on Topic 13: Practical Apologetics, aka "How to engage with Protestant questioners".

Class date: 3/4/18

We began with the amazing conversion story of our guest speaker, Ms. Corban. Contact me for the recording if you missed class!

How to engage with Protestant questioners

• Prayer: Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit

1. Introduction
   1. So far, we've looked at a lot of Scriptural evidence because ...

Class date: Feb 18, 2018

Beginning Apologetics 1: pp27-29, "Prayer to the Saints"

If you missed class or want to review:

• Any Friend of God's is a Friend of Mine (alternate version here) by Patrick Madrid **

Other online resources:

• The Intercession of the Saints
• Praying to ...

Class date: Feb 18, 2018

• Prayer: Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit

1. Communion of Saints – Study Guide p. 27
   1. During the Creed at every Mass and at the beginning of the Rosary, we say that we believe in the “communion of saints.” Can someone tell me what we mean ...

Mary, Mother of God (aka Divine Maternity):

• God-Bearer by Fr. Dwight Longenecker, This Rock, April 2002 **
• How Can Mary Be God’s Mother? by Tim Staples, This Rock, May 2008 **
• Mary: Mother of God quotes from the Church Fathers (CA Tract)
• Mary the Mother of God: Protestant ...

Class date: Feb 04, 2018

• Prayer: Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit

1. Many Protestants think Catholics honor the Blessed Virgin Mary too much – they reject the defined doctrines
   1. Divine Maternity (Mother of God)
   2. Perpetual Virginity – think she had other children after Jesus
   3. Assumption
   4. Immaculate Conception

2. Often, they want ...

 Beginning Apologetics 1: pp 14-17 “Apostolic Authority, Peter and the Papacy” Quick Answers: Don’t Revelation 3:7 and Isaiah 22 point to Christ – not Peter – as having the keys of David? Articles and Tracts: Peter’s Authority (Scripture) ** Tract: Peter and the Papacy – No Rocks Required (Scripture) ** Stewards of the Kingdom (History) […]