Week 12 - (12/01/07) - The Perpetual Virginity of Mary ; “The Creator” - CCC # 306-324 (cont.); Heaven and Earth - CCC # 325-354

“What Makes Us Catholic?”
Week 12 12/01/07
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Ø APOLOGETICS: The Perpetual Virginity of Mary
Ø “The Creator” - CCC # 306-324 (cont.); Heaven and Earth - CCC # 325-354

I. Opening Prayer
a. Our Father
b. Jesus Prayer (Fatima Prayer)
c. Come Holy Spirit
o Come Holy Spirit, and fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Your Divine Love. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created, and You shall renew the face of the earth. Oh God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit instructed the hearts of the faithful, Grant, that by the same Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolation. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
d. Hail Mary
II. Sunday Gospel (12/02/07): Mt 24:37-44
III. Review of Week 10: “What language was the Gospel of St. Matthew written in?” ; The thieves crucified with Jesus ; The Creator
IV. Apologetics
a. Study from the book: The Catholic Apologetics Bible: Volume 1: The Gospel According to St. Matthew by Robert Sungenis, Ph.D.
o Matthew 1:23
1. Was Jesus born miraculously from the Virgin Mary?
V. Study of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): “The Creator” - CCC # 306-324 (cont.); Heaven and Earth - CCC # 325-354
VI. Spiritual Reading: St. Josemaria Escriva (Founder of Opus Dei), taken from The Way #411, p. 137 (Scepter Press)
a. What does it mean to be a hypocrite?
b. What is the difference between the hypocrite and the sinner who begs for God’s mercy?
VII. Closing Prayer
a. Angelus
b. St. Michael Prayer
c. Intercessions

Spiritual Reading: St. Josemaria Escriva (Founder of Opus Dei), taken from The Way #411, p. 137 (Scepter Press)

#411: Many false apostles, in spite of themselves, do good to the masses, to the people, through the very power of the doctrine of Jesus which they preach-even though they don’t practice it.
But this good does not compensate for the enormous and very real harm they do by killing the souls of leaders, of apostles, who turn away in disgust from those who don’t practice what they preach.
That’s why such men and women, if they are not willing to live an upright life, should never push themselves forward as leaders.