Journey of Faith

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: What Is Faith? 3: What Does Faith Feel Like? 4: Does Having Faith Mean We Don't Question or Doubt? 5: The Bible and Faith 6: What Is Faith in Action? 7: How Can We Nurture Our Faith? 8: Closing Prayer and Take-Home Assignment and Quiz

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: The Holy Trinity 3: The Trinity in the Bible 4: Speaking of God: A Vocabulary 5: An Image of the Trinity 6: The Work of the Trinity 7: Praying to the Trinity 8: Closing Prayer and Take-home

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: Who Is Jesus Christ? 3: Jesus' True Identity 4: Jesus Is the Truth 5: Jesus Is the Life 6: Jesus Is the Way 7: The Miracles of Jesus 8: How Did Jesus Describe Himself? 9: Closing Prayer and Take-home Assignments and Quiz

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: What Is the Bible? 3: Who Wrote the Bible? 4: Two Testaments, Two Covenants 5: Where Did the Bible Come From? 6: How Do Catholics Read and Interpret Scripture? 7: How Is the Old Testament Organized? 8: How Is the New Testament Organized? 9: Shouldn't We Take the Bible Literally? 10: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead Assignments and Quiz

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: Divine Revelation: What It Is 3: Creation and Human Experience 4: Divine Revelation in Scripture 5: Divine Revelation in Sacred Tradition 6: Core or Custom? Scripture and Tradition 7: Guided Meditation 8: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead Assignment and Quiz

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: What Is Prayer? 3: What Does Prayer Do? 4: Can I Pray Wrong? 5: Kinds of Prayer 6: Forms of Prayer: Voice, Body, Silence, and Scripture 7: Prayer When Life Gets in the Way 8: Some Final Tips 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead Assignment and Quiz

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: Catholic Prayers and Practices: Overview 3: The Our Father (Lord's Prayer) 4: The Sign of the Cross and the Hail Mary 5: The Apostles' Creed 6: The Rosary 7: Other Catholic Prayers and Devotions 8: Sacramentals 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead Assignments and Quiz

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: Why Is the Mass So Important? 3: The Introductory Rites 4: The Liturgy of the Word 5: How Are the Readings Chosen? 6: Write Your Own Petition 7: The Liturgy of the Eucharist 8: The Concluding Rites 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead Assignment and Quiz

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: The Church Year: An Overview 3: Advent 4: Christmas and Ordinary Time 5: Lent 6: The Triduum and Easter 7: Rhyme and Reason: The Rhythm of the Church Year 8: The Importance of Sunday 9: Holy Days of Obligation 10: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: Places in a Catholic Church: Overview 3: The Sanctuary: Front and Center 4: Other Places in Church 5: Do Catholics Worship Images? 6: Types of Churches and Parish Structures 7: Clerical Vestments 8: Other Religious Places 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: Who Shepherds the Church? 3: The Pope 4: Peter and Church Authority 5: Is the Pope Infallible? 6: The Bishops 7: Priests, Deacons, and the Laity 8: Sisters, Brothers, and Religious Life 9: Parish Ministries 10: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: The Church as Community 3: Why Do We Need the Church? 4: The Mystical Body 5: What Did Paul Mean by Calling the Church Christ's Body? 6: Did Jesus Intend to Start a Church? 7: How Does God Guide the Church? 8: Activity: Making Christ Present 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture: The Magnificat 2: Mary: An Overview 3: Who First Honored Mary? 5: What Is the Immaculate Conception? 6: Why Do We Call Mary the Mother of God? 7: What Is the Assumption of Mary? 8: Qualities of Mary and Marian Apparitions 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead 4: How Do Catholics Honor Mary?

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Reading 2: The Saints 3: All Are Called to Be Saints 4: How Does the Church Choose Saints? 5: Is Viewing Images of Saints Idolatry? 6: Why Do Catholics Pray to Saints? 7: The Communion of Saints 8: Guided Meditation with a Saint 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead

Overview Leader Meditation 1: Welcome and Opening Scripture 2: Eschatology: The Last Things 3: Life, Death, and Particular Judgment 4: Heaven 5: Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory? 6: The Resurrection of the Body 7: The Second Coming of Christ 8: The Final Judgment and the Kingdom of God 9: Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead