Father Larry is still recuperating for pneumonia so we will not have an August Recollection. Our next Evening of Recollection is scheduled for August 31st.
August Meeting - Saturday August 6, 7:00 am
Our August Saturday meeting will be August 6, at 7:00 am, in the meeting room off commons.
Note: We are switching to the meeting room off the commons starting in August.
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Chapters 251- 270 | Baptism and Eucharist
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Paul F for volunteering to facilitate our August meeting.
Thanks to Frank for facilitating our July meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
August Meeting - Saturday August 6, 7:00 am
Our August Saturday meeting will be August 6, at 7:00 am, in the meeting room off commons.
Note: We are switching to the meeting room off the commons starting in August.
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Chapters 251- 270 | Baptism and Eucharist
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Paul F for volunteering to facilitate our August meeting.
Thanks to Frank for facilitating our July meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
August Meeting - Saturday August 6, 7:00 am
Our August Saturday meeting will be August 6, at 7:00 am, in the meeting room off commons.
Note: We are switching to the meeting room off the commons starting in August.
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Chapters 251- 270 | Baptism and Eucharist
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Paul F for volunteering to facilitate our August meeting.
Thanks to Frank for facilitating our July meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
Kozak's Korner - Recommended Materials
Bishop Chairman Responds to Executive Order on Abortion Access | USCCB
https://www.usccb.org/news/2022/bishop-chairman-responds-executive-order-abortion-access
The Catholic Thing
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/
Anti-Catholic Attacks After Dobbs | Richard W. Garnett | First Things
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/06/anti-catholic-attacks-after-dobbs
Dulce et Decorum Est: In Defense of Healthy Patriotism - Public Discourse
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/03/74524/
"The New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era"
https://books.wordonfire.org/thenewapologetics
August Meeting - Saturday August 6, 7:00 am
Our August Saturday meeting will be August 6, at 7:00 am, in the meeting room off commons.
Note: We are switching to the meeting room off the commons starting in August.
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Chapters 251- 270 | Baptism and Eucharist
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Paul F for volunteering to facilitate our August meeting.
Thanks to Frank for facilitating our July meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
Keep Bill A in your prayers
David W called and let me know that Bill has been at VCU Hospital for surgery, doing pretty well and probably heading home Monday or so.
Please keep Bill in your prayers.
July Meeting - Saturday July 9, 7:00 am
Our July Saturday meeting will be July 9, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Email from Frank:
I’m going to do 231-250 for July 9.
If we keep up at that pace we can finish the book up by the end of the year.
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank for volunteering to facilitate our July meeting.
Thanks to Frank, Andrew, and Martin for facilitating our June meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
July Meeting - Saturday July 9, 7:00 am
Our July Saturday meeting will be July 9, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Email from Frank:
I’m going to do 231-250 for July 9.
If we keep up at that pace we can finish the book up by the end of the year.
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank for volunteering to facilitate our July meeting.
Thanks to Frank, Andrew, and Martin for facilitating our June meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
Next Evening of Recollection for Men August 3rd
There will be no Evening of Recollection for Men this month. The next Evening of Recollection for Men will be Wednesday August 3rd, St. Bridget.
July Meeting - Saturday July 9, 7:00 am
Our July Saturday meeting will be July 9, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Email from Frank:
I’m going to do 231-250 for July 9.
If we keep up at that pace we can finish the book up by the end of the year.
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank for volunteering to facilitate our July meeting.
Thanks to Frank, Andrew, and Martin for facilitating our June meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
Kozak's Korner - Recommended Materials
A Matter of Holiness - Ethics & Public Policy Center
https://eppc.org/publication/a-matter-of-holiness/
National Eucharistic Revival: A Grassroots Response to God’s Invitation
https://www.eucharisticrevival.org/
There are no coincidences.
Keep in mind the Dobbs decision was posted at 10:10 a.m. on June 24. From Aleteia ( a very good Catholic website ):
In the court’s ruling I see God’s Providence everywhere at hand:
The ruling came down on the feast of the Sacred Heart. Just consider the importance of the heart, that is, a heartbeat for the pro-life movement!
The ruling came down on the date of the Nativity of John the Baptist. John was the first to recognize the unborn Christ and leap for joy, himself still in the womb!
June 24 is the birthday of Nellie Gray, the Catholic convert who founded the March for Life in 1974 and popularized the term “pro-life”!
Even the timing of the ruling has God’s fingerprints: John 10:10 reads, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
Wow!
July Meeting - Saturday July 9, 7:00 am
Our July Saturday meeting will be July 9, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Email from Frank:
I’m going to do 231-250 for July 9.
If we keep up at that pace we can finish the book up by the end of the year.
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank for volunteering to facilitate our July meeting.
Thanks to Frank, Andrew, and Martin for facilitating our June meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
July Meeting - Saturday July 9, 7:00 am
Our July Saturday meeting will be July 9, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
TBD
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank for volunteering to facilitate our July meeting.
Thanks to Frank, Andrew, and Martin for facilitating our June meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
Reminder: Feast Day Mass for St. Jose Maria Escriva Friday June 17 that 7:30 at St. Bridget.
Attached is an invitation to our Feast Day Mass for St. Jose Maria Escriva which will take place on June 17 at 7:30 at St. Bridget.
July Meeting - Saturday July 9, 7:00 am
Our July Saturday meeting will be July 9, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
TBD
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank for volunteering to facilitate our July meeting.
Thanks to Frank, Andrew, and Martin for facilitating our June meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
Andrew's Notes From Saturday's Meeting
June Men’s’ Book Group /Practical Theology, by Peter Kreeft / Points 210-213, 215
210 The necessity of the Incarnation
There appears to be no proof of necessity, so theologians discuss whether the Incarnation was fitting.
Augustine says, “We shall also show that other ways were not wanting to God, to Whose power all things are equally
subject, but that there was not a more fitting way of healing our misery.”
I imagine that God could have healed all, for example, by wiping away all traces of the fall of man. It would be as if it never
happened. If Augustine was right in saying that the Incarnation was the best of many ways of healing our misery, I suspect
that we may agree that the Incarnation was necessary. Some aspect of falling and being redeemed perfected the nature of
creation.
211 A good but unanswerable question
This is a fascinating twist on #210. Suppose man had not fallen (or God had wiped away our fall), would Christ then have
become man?
What benefit is there to us in asking this question but to better understand truth. I ask, would not the Incarnation have
been the cause for closer intimacy with God? It seems a reasonable question, yet Adam and Eve walked with God. Can one
be closer? Questions about an alternative reality lead us to answers about our own reality. While the question is
unanswerable it does give us a new perspective.
212 Christ on other planets?
Can God make a rock so big that he can’t lift it? I say yes, and he can lift it too. Sometimes an absurd answer is appropriate
for an absurd question.
Could God have created another planet, another humanity? Sure.
Could God create a second, third, fourth… rational species on Earth? Sure.
Could each rational species, made in the image and likeness of God, sin, fall and be redeemed by the Son of God. Yes.
What is the value of these questions but to test our understanding of God, of God’s limits, of God’s power, of God’s love?
God is omnipotent. I don’t know about other planets, but He did make us.
213 Adoration of an image of Christ
St. Basil says, “The honor given to an image reaches to the prototype.” This is so simple a child has no difficulty with the
idea. In our age should we refuse to talk to a person on the telephone or participate in a video conference because the
phone is not the person, or the video picture is not the person. No, this is absurd. I gladly talk through a phone to my
friends. I pray through an image to my Lord. A crucifix brings the passion into my heart, and I weep. Surely, I am not so
much a fool as to weep for the pain of the statue itself? Are we not men, with bodies and senses? Can our vision, our
hearing, our smell not invoke the higher things? I am no artist. The statues and stained-glass windows in my life are far
more pleasing and bring me closer to God than the images of my own imagination. From the hands of the artist through my
eyes and into my mind, comes an image of my Lord. My soul resonates with the image in my mind and gives greater glory
to God.
215 Relics
Kreeft writes that relics, like images, invoke the memory of the person. I would like to suggest that the sense of touch is
key to the operation of relics. A relic could be clothing, a Rosary, just about anything. To make this personal, imagine
something passed on to you by family. I have a coat of my father’s. Though he is still alive I think of him when I wear the
coat. To touch a relic brings us closer in spirit to the original owner. In the case of a sacred relic, this brings us closer to a
saint, someone pleasing to God. We take comfort, feel unity and renew our resolve.
June Meeting - Saturday June 4, 7:00 am
Our June Saturday meeting will be June 4, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Email from Frank:
We’ll be moving thru 210-230 on Saturday the 4th.
I’ll be covering 220-230.
Andrew will have 210-13 and 215
Martin will cover the Marian Suite with 214, 216, 217, 218.
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank D and team for volunteering to facilitate our June meeting.
Thanks to Steve G for facilitating our May meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
June Meeting - Saturday June 4, 7:00 am
Our June Saturday meeting will be June 4, at 7:00 am, in the parish hall (basement).
We will start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:55 AM so guys can attend Mass at 8:00 AM
The following will be our points for discussion from Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft.
Email from Frank:
We’ll be moving thru 210-230 on Saturday the 4th.
I’ll be covering 220-230.
Andrew will have 210-13 and 215
Martin will cover the Marian Suite with 214, 216, 217, 218.
You can purchase the book at:
The Catholic Company - https://www.catholiccompany.com/practical-theology-350-ways-your-mind-can-help-you-become-a-saint-i79986/
Thanks to Frank D and team for volunteering to facilitate our June meeting.
Thanks to Steve G for facilitating our May meeting!
Email lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!
Evening of Recollection at Benedictine this month /Feast Day Mass
Our Evening of Recollection will be at the Benedictine Abbey 12829 River Rd, Richmond, VA 23238 this Wednesday June 1st at 6PM as there will be an event at ST. Bridget during this time.
Also attached is an invitation to our Feast Day Mass for St. Jose Maria Escriva which will take place on June 17 at 7:30 at St. Bridget.