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If you missed class or want to review:

• Start with the summary at the class update post above.
• Next, enter the following codes into the Quicklinks box at the top-right of the Principles and Choices website.
  • Find definitions for all the important terms under PCS116: "Study Tools," Book 1, Chapter 3 -- Love.
  • Also see "Study Tools," Book 1, Chapter 4 -- Application to Social Issues.

Our next class will be Sunday, November 3.
(No class this Sunday.)

Last time:
At our last class meeting, we discussed responses to objections related to St. Thomas Aquinas's "Third Way" (the argument from contingency).

• Please enter the following codes into the Quicklinks box at the top-right of the Principles and Choices website.
  • Enter PCS122 to watch Ike’s Winning Touchdown (video shown in class)
  • Find definitions for all the important terms under PCS116: "Study Tools", Book 1, Chapter 2 (Success & Quality of Life).
  • Check PCS124 for inspiration to strive for Success 4.
  • Go to PCS132 for an explanation of the Four Kinds of Love.
• Also please see the class update for the homework assignment.

Last time, Sunday, May 26, was our final class for the academic year. Led by Mr. Doran, the class completed Chapter 12 of TOB for Teens: High School Edition -- "Living the Good (and Free!) Life." This chapter pulled together the threads of all that we have studied about the Theology of the Body this year.

Key points:

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:

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 --

• "Parables in the Boat and in the House: What the postmodern mind misses in Scripture" by Mark Shea, Catholic Answers Magazine, Nov-Dec 2015, pp. 30-33.

You were made for communion:

Next class will meet Sunday, December 2.
(No class this Sunday.)

Last time, we worked through the second chapter of Theology of the Body for Teens: "Love Defined." Students should understand and be able to explain these key points:

Sorry for the delayed update. The assigned reading is short. :-)

Class will be meeting next Sunday, April 17.

Last time, we started on Chapter 11: Dating with Purpose and Purity. Some important points: