Patrick Madrid

You are in for a treat this week, as I will be gone!  Barbara will fill in and would like to introduce you to one of our favorite apologists, Patrick Madrid.  He has a marvelous blog, often linked on the NewAdvent home page, and is one of the most forceful, quick thinking, convincing of our group of modern Catholic speakers.  I say quick thinking because he is one of a handful who have CDs of actual live debates with Protestants.  These are wonderful and challenging to hear.  I hope you will enjoy this week's session.  We are off next week so no class on April 25.  We will resume on May 2 and that may be our last session of the year.

Fr. John Corapi

We are drawing to a close for the year!  Class tomorrow, April 18, May 2 and May 16.  Not to taxing a schedule I trust.
This week we will have a look at and a listen to Fr. John Corapi.  Many of you are already familiar with him, as he is on EWTN every Sunday evening at 8pm with his long running series on the Catechism.  I will be bringing the corresponding audio CD set to class to show to you, and we will be listening to one of his CDs on SCANDAL!.  Please do not miss it....he is a very powerful, indeed a fiery speaker and is not to  be trifled with!  If time permits we also have some video of him that we can explore.  He has been to Chattanooga for a retreat and is in high demand.  I have placed a link to his website vis his name above and also on our links page.  He has a subscription web site as well that you might want to explore.  We have had his powerful conversion story in our CD case, and I can provide a copy to you should you wish to hear it.  An amazing story to be sure.

Tim Staples

This week we will focus on Tim Staples, one of my favorite apologists.  We will listen the the CD of his conversion to Catholicism from the Assemblies of God community.  We had it in our CD case some time ago, and it is most entertaining and thought provoking.

Tim is now the "head apologist" for Catholic Answers, linked on the right in our link section and also available by clicking on Tim Staples title above.

Here is a good YouTube Video by Tim on Apostolic Succession, some of which is from his conversion story.  It is about 4:25 seconds and well worth the viewing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpptEntC3nw

See you tomorrow.
SLG

More Bars in More Places

This is Barbara's latest blog post.  We have it linked already, but I wanted to call special attention to it as we are all addicted to cell phones.  Can we say the same for the Church?  Just a thought.
Have a Blessed Day!
SLG

A Quick post Reformation History Lesson

The above link will give you a quick lesson in the origination of various Protestant Denominations.  There was a T-shirt for sale with this graphically displayed on the back at the Deep in History Conference in Colombus, Ohio last October.  I sort of wish I had gotten it.  Perhaps when WE (I am hoping for a group of us from OLM) go this coming October it will still be there.
SLG

Who told you you weren't beautiful?

WOW!  We all know about this stuff, but to see it happen is truly amazing.  Please take one minute and fifteen seconds and watch the video link at the bottom!!  ALL need to see this, but especially those with teenage children and young adults in the family....male or female!

At the end of this video you can link to this one:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I&annotation_id=annotation_372272&feature=iv

This is a link to Msgr. Charles Pope, from the Archdiocese of Washington.  We will  be linking his blog to ours, as he is one of my favorites.  He is consistently "on the mark" and has a fantastic collection of links to timely and thought provoking images and short videos.

SLG

Hannity and Repentance

Hannity and Repentance

Folks have a look at this, especially if you listen to talk radio on the way home in the evenings!

Food for thought for sure!

SLG

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