Class Blog Archive

Class date: 03/03/2019

What is marriage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWIhZ5xJJaQ

Questions about marriage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWC22S8FtJs

Articles:

• Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection | Public Discourse
• Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments | Public Discourse
• How to Make the Case for Marriage (SSM: Our Agreements Solve Our Disagreement) | Catholic Answers
• Four Responses to the ...

Class date: 03 Mar 2019

Opening prayer: Come Holy Spirit

1. How did we get here?
   • 1996: Defense of Marriage Act, signed by Pres. Clinton
   • 1996: Oregon – One Man + One Woman
   • 2000:
     “Marriage has historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think ...

Class will NOT be meeting next Sunday.
Our next class date is Sunday, Mar 3.

Last time, we studied TOB for Teens, Chapter 8: Marriage. This chapter draws together the threads of several previous chapters. We also spent some focused time the qualities that one would desire in a ...

Video:

Quotes to ponder:

Class will not be meeting this Sunday.

Our next class is scheduled for Feb 17.

Last time, we covered chapter 7 of Theology of the Body for Teens: "Free, Total, Faithful, Fruitful." Key points:

• We need God's love before we can give that true love to others or ...

Personal update:

Some of you may have heard this already, but my mom passed away this past Friday morning. We are grateful that it was peaceful. Thank you so much for your prayers and support, and please pray for the repose of her soul.

Class will be meeting next Sunday ...

Class date: 1/20/19

• Natural Law is basically the “reality that is”
• It is universal and we are subject to it, not the other way around
• Natural Law has been taught since at least Aristotle in the 4th century BC
• Our own Declaration of Independence recognizes Natural Law in its opening ...

Class will be not meeting next Sunday.
Our next class meeting will be January 20.

Last time, the class met with Mr. Kevin Doran to discuss the fifth chapter of Theology of the Body for Teens: "Truth and Freedom." There was an equipment snafu because someone had borrowed ...

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 ...

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 ...