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What are these quotes?
ElieWiesel
Bl. JPII
Diocese of Phoenix - Kino Institute
6 February 2013 - Week Five
Student’s Prayer before Study
by St. Thomas Aquinas
Ineffable Creator,
Who, from the treasures of Your wisdom,
has established three hierarchies of angels,
has arrayed them in marvelous order
above the fiery heavens,
and has marshaled the regions of the universe
with such artful skill.
You are proclaimed
the true font of light and wisdom,
and the primal origin
raised high beyond all things.
Pour forth a ray of Your brightness
into the darkened places of my mind;
disperse from my soul
the twofold darkness
into which I was born:
sin and ignorance.
You make eloquent the tongues of infants.
Refine my speech
and pour forth upon my lips
the goodness of Your blessing.
Grant to me
keenness of mind,
capacity to remember,
skill in learning,
subtlety to interpret,
and eloquence in speech.
May You
guide the beginning of my work,
direct its progress,
and bring it to completion.
You Who are true God and true Man,
Who live and reign, world without end.
Amen.
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OUTLINE
6:30pm Prayer & Questions
6:45 Quiz & Discussion
7:00 First Commandment
7:30 Second Commandment
8:00 BREAK
8:15 Third Commandment
9:00 Evaluations
9:10 Questions?
FREEDOM from tyranny
Relativism preaches that there can be no such thing as absolute truth
and that man is his own god. Blessed John Paul II saw relativism at work
in Communism and Fascism that plunged the world into World War II. He
also saw how relativism crept into our democracies and tries to erase Jesus
Christ from homes, schools, and workplaces.
1. In VeritatisSplendor, how does Bl. John Paul II call us to witness
and equip ourselves in order to protect ourselves against relativism?
2. How can we move past relativism to find (again) the absolute
truth of Jesus Christ so that our generation can find its (own) meaning
and dignity?
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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO
THE AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA"
VISITThursday, 19 January 2012
“When a culture attempts to suppress the dimension
of ultimate mystery, and to close the doors to
transcendent truth, it inevitably becomes
impoverished and falls prey, as the late Pope John
Paul II so clearly saw, to reductionist and
totalitarian readings of the human person and the
nature of society.”
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE
AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012
“With her long tradition of respect for the right relationship
between faith and reason, the Church has a critical role to play in
countering cultural currents which, on the basis of an extreme
individualism, seek to promote notions of freedom detached
from moral truth. Our tradition does not speak from blind faith,
but from a rational perspective which links our commitment to
building an authentically just, humane and prosperous society to
our ultimate assurance that the cosmos is possessed of an inner
logic accessible to human reasoning.”
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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE
AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012
“The Church’s defense of a moral reasoning based on the natural law is
grounded on her conviction that this law is not a threat to our freedom, but
rather a ‘language’ which enables us to understand ourselves and the truth
of our being, and so to shape a more just and humane world. She thus
proposes her moral teaching as a message not of constraint but of liberation,
and as the basis for building a secure future.”
“The Church’s witness, then, is of its nature public: she seeks to convince by
proposing rational arguments in the public square. The legitimate separation
of Church and State cannot be taken to mean that the Church must be silent on
certain issues, nor that the State may choose not to engage, or be engaged by,
the voices of committed believers in determining the values which will shape
the future of the nation.”
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE
AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012
“In the light of these considerations, it is imperative that the entire Catholic
community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the
Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds
increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness
of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.
Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most
cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion. Many of you have
pointed out that concerted efforts have been made to deny the right of
conscientious objection on the part of Catholic individuals and institutions
with regard to cooperation in intrinsically evil practices. Others have spoken to
me of a worrying tendency to reduce religious freedom to mere freedom of
worship without guarantees of respect for freedom of conscience.”
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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE
AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012
“Here once more we see the need for an engaged, articulate and
well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense
vis-à-vis the dominant culture and with the courage to counter a
reductive secularismwhich would delegitimize the Church’s
participation in public debate about the issues which are determining the
future of American society. The preparation of committed lay leaders and
the presentation of a convincing articulation of the Christian vision
of man and society remain a primary task of the Church in your
country; as essential components of the new evangelization, these
concerns must shape the vision and goals of catechetical programs at
every level.”
SHEMA
Se questoè un uomo
Voichevivetesicuri
Nellevostretiepidecase
voichetrovatetornando a sera
Il cibocaldoevisiamici:
Considerate se questoè un uomo
Chelavoranelfango
Chenon conoscepace
Chelotta per mezzo pane
Chemuore per un sìo per un no.
Considerate se questaèunadonna
Senzacapelliesenzanome
Senzapiùforzadiricordare
Vuotigliocchiefreddoilgrembo
Come unaranad'inverno.
Meditate chequestoèstato
Vi comandoqueste parole.
Scolpitelenelvostrocuore
Standoin casa andando per via
Coricandovialzandovi
Ripeteteleaivostrifigli.
O vi sisfaccia la casa
La malattia vi impedisca
I vostrinatitorcanoilvisodavoi.
SHEMAIf This Is a Man ~ Primo Levi (1919-1987)
You who live safe
In your warm houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud,
Who does not know peace,
Who fights for a scrap of bread,
Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman
Without hair and without name,
With no more strength to remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
Contemplate/Consider that this came about:
I commend these words to you.
Engrave/Carve them on your hearts
At home, in the street, (When you are in your house, when you walk on your
way,)Goingto bed, rising; (When you go to bed, when you rise.)
Repeat them to your children.
Or may your house fall apart,
May illness impede you,
May your children turn their faces from you.
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The First CommandmentTo Love God above All Else
1. God, the Foundation of Human Existence:
The Virtue of Religion
2. Worship of God:
Practical Exercise of the Theological Virtues
3. Worship of God: The Virtue of Religion
4. Sins against the Virtue of Religion
The Second CommandmentNot Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain
1. Grandeur of God’s Name
2. OathsOT Doctrine Concerning Custom of Taking Oaths
NT Doctrine Concerning Oaths
Necessary Conditions for Lawful Use of Oaths
3. Vows
4. Irreverent Use of the Name of God
5. Blasphemy against God, the Virgin Mary, & the Saints
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The Third CommandmentKeeping Holy the Lord’s Day
1. Importance of the Sabbath in the OT
2. The Lord’s Day in the NT
3. The Christian Sunday
4. Obligation of Attending Holy Mass (Sundays, Holy Days)
5. Obligation to Rest
6. Activity Permitted on Sunday
7. Reclaiming Sunday: Dies Domini
“The sabbath was made for man,
not man for the sabbath.” Mt 2:27
Formulate a response to these common objections:
• “I don’t want to go to Mass because I don’t get anything out of it.”
• “I think a person can pray just as well at home as at Church.”
How does modern culture inhibit the observance the Christian
observance of Sundays? Cite examples.
Make a list of activities that families can do on Sunday that would
facilitate a return to the day’s festive character.
What does the pastoral letter (from Bps. Olmsted and Nevares) say to
families about how they can/should participate in this Year of Faith?http://catholicfamilyprayer.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/YEAR-OF-
FAITH-PASTORAL-LETTER-ENGLISH-web.pdf
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FINAL ESSAY
Christian, recognize your dignity! For
know you partake of divine nature; do
not degenerate by turning back to your
past state. Remember what Head you
belong to and to what Body you are a
member of. Remember that you have
been snatched away from the power of
darkness to be transported to the light
of the kingdom of God.
St. Leo the Great
EVALUATIONS
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QUESTIONS?
“The glory of God is man fully alive.”
St. Irenaeus
You must do the right thing,
for the right reason,
in the right way.