Adult Formation, studies, & Programs
Jesus: the Way the Truth and the Life
Description: Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life is a ten-week study program presented by Marcellino D’Ambrosio, Jeff Cavins, and Edward Sri.
Filmed on-location in the Holy Land and anchored in the life of Christ as presented in the Gospels, this study explores the entirety of Jesus’ life—who he is, what he is really like, what he taught, what he did for our salvation, and what all of this means for us as Catholics today.
Fall 2024: Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
Thursday Evenings • 5:30pm–8:00pm
Dates: Sept 12 - Nov 18
McGrath Center Rooms 6-7, St. John Vianney (SJV)
Cost: $30
Conact & to Register: Maxine Russman
David the King
Description: Adam was the first king and steward of the rightly ordered Garden of Eden. He was called to govern the garden according to God’s mind and purpose, but by allowing negative influences to wreak havoc on Eden, he did not fulfill his kingly responsibility.
Long after Adam, David emerged as the definitive king who would restore order in the Garden and bring the world under the lordship of God. But like Adam, David fell, and his reign ushered in a succession of compromised kings and rejected prophets. But God promised a son of David who would realize the fullness of Israelite kingship...but whose actual reign defied expectation.
King David causes us to look back toward Adam’s kingship and forward toward Christ the King, seeing Christ as the fulfillment of the Davidic line and the realization of the Kingdom of God on earth. In David the King, Bishop Barron helps us to understand this pivotal figure in light of the first king and the King of kings.
Fall 2024: Adult Bible Study
David the King by Bishop Barron
Monday Mornings • 9:30am–11:00am
Dates: Sept 30 to Nov 18
Vianney Room, St. John Vianney (SJV)
Cost: $16
Conact & to Register: Jane Campagna
Called and Gifted
Description: The Called & Gifted™ Discernment Process has been used since 1993 by over 200,000 lay, ordained, and religious Catholics and other Christians around the world. It is designed to help Christians discern the presence of charisms in their lives.
Charisms, or spiritual gifts, are special abilities given to all Christians by the Holy Spirit to give them power both to represent Christ and to be a channel of God's goodness for people. Whether extraordinary or ordinary, all charisms ought to be exercised in the service of God (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2003). All three parts of the process are necessary for discovering where you are gifted.
Fall 2024: Called and Gifted
Monday Evenings • 6:30pm–9:00pm
Dates:
Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30
Oct. 7, 21
Nov. 4, 18
Dec. 2
St. John Vianney (SJV)
Cost: $50
Conact & to Register: Maureen Conrad
