Class for Jan 30

We will be taking this class to review Chapter 7 and the end of the book.  There is a great deal of practical advice there at the end of the book for us to discuss.

We will also need to give some thought to what we want to explore next, so please come with some ideas in that regard.

See you tomorrow!

SLG

Class for Jan 23

Hal and Micheline will be facilitating the discussion on Chapters 5 and 6 this week, as we are unexpectedly called out of town on Sunday to Atlanta to finish up some images for a rapidly upcoming photography exhibit that we are putting together for the Holy Spirit Monastery in early February.  Anyway, have a great discussion and we will continue with Chapters 7&8 the following week.  Please check out the Megachurch Pastor Book blog and make some comments!
SLG

Sunday January 16

We have completed discussion on Chapter 3 (The Kitchen) and Chapter 4 (The Basement) as of class today.  We had an excellent discussion today and wonderful attendance.  All are encouraged to keep up with the discussion on the blog (www.olmcmp.blogspot.com) and make some comments.  There is a wealth of thought provoking material within the pages of the book, and we should all feel challenged to, as Hunt points out on page 46 (echoing Matthew Kelly) become the best version of ourselves!  This is modern parlance for the concept of living the holiness that is within each and every one of us by participating in the Sacraments (especially The Eucharist) and cooperating with the grace that we receive.  Our mission is to carry this out in to the world at large.

On page 59 Hunt relates and incident where one of his Methodist denominational leaders accuses him of “thinking too much”.  There was a very relevant blog this week by Eric Sammons (The Divine Life) entitled “Is My Egg Head Scrambled or Sunnyside Up?”  See below for the link to that blog.  Have a look at it if you have time, and be sure to check out the many comments that follow it.  It rang true to many of us in class today.

We will move forward to Chapter 5 (The Bedroom) and Chapter 6 (The Family Cemetary) next week.  That should be an interesting pairing!

http://ericsammons.com/blog/2011/01/12/is-my-egg-head-scrambled-or-sunny-side-up/

Starting up a New Year

Starting this week, Sunday January 9 we will be studying Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor by Allen Hunt, given to you as a small Christmas gift. If you have not gotten yours they are still available in the Church Narthex.  Please read the introduction and chapters one and two this week.  We will be reading and commenting on this through January 30 as the content of the Adult Bible Study.  Please have a look at the blog and add comments.  We have a good team of bloggers, and there should be 1-2 or more posts up there each Tuesday and Thursday covering basically one chapter each time, so by the end of the month we will have completed the book.  Here is the schedule:
Chapter     Date          
     1          Jan 4                    
     2          Jan 6                      
     3          Jan 10                      
     4          Jan 13                    
     5          Jan 17                      
     6          Jan 20                    
     7          Jan 24                      
     8          Jan 27
As with Rediscovering Catholicism it is hoped that this will bring a new found excitement about your Catholic faith, and it is also hoped that this will be a family event.  Kids are more than welcome to participate in the blog commenting should they so desire.
See you on Sunday!
SLG

Class is starting up on Sunday

We are beginning another year!  Please bring with you on Sunday ideas of what you would like to see us cover in the coming months.  There is a huge amount of material to choose from.
We will start this week by looking at this week's blog posts for Rediscovering Catholicism
Please have a look, COMMENT on the blog please, print out the posts and the comments if you are able and bring to class on Sunday.  We will be discussing The Mass and The Bible.  We will check out both topics in as much detail as we have time for.
See you on Sunday!
Steve

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.