Season 1 explores the context by which we make moral decisions.  We discuss "what" we know and "how" we orient our lives to the good.  We align with the Creator, conform to the Son, make space for grace, become disposed and magnanimous as Mary and grow to a life of virtuous reality based on the principles of Thomas Aquinas.

Additional Insight:

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Duska, Ronald. & Whelan, Mariellen. Moral Development

Fowler, David. Stages of Faith

O’ Connell, Timothy E. Principles for a Catholic Morality

Pitre, Brant. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary

Pitre, Brant. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist

Sullivan, Francis. Magisterium

Vost, Kevin. 12 Lessons from St. Thomas Aquinas

We examine six dynamics of the Holy Spirit working in our lives. See these dynamics from a perspective of cultural anthropology and sociology.  Ponder them as inherent in the Paschal Mystery.  We'll discover how the dynamics are present in the language of Church teaching and particularly in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.  How are the dynamics of vocation, conversion, mission, transformation, providence and gratitude active in our lives?  We will explore concepts of being absorbed, attentive, intentional and engaged in the dynamics of day-to-day life.  

Additional Insight:

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces

US Council of Catholic Bishops. Coworkers in the Vineyard of the Lord

Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

In Season 3, we'll orient our active faith lives more closely to the ritual and rhythm of the Catholic Mass.  We will review the teachings of the US Catholic Bishops from the National Eucharistic Revival. And, appreciate the theological, Scriptural and liturgical movements in the Mass.  Season 3 also includes reviewing the six Faith Dynamics of the Active Catholic as they are present in the liturgical celebration.  We'll revive our engagement in the Mass and develop more “fully conscious and active participation in the liturgy.” (SC#14)  We'll examine again the concepts of disposition and magnanimity (introduced in Season 1, Episode Five) as they relate to participation in the Mass and as were illustrative of the life of Mary.

Additional Insight:

Barron, Robert. This is My Body

US Catholic Bishops 2021 Document. The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church

Catholic Church/ Documents of the Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium

About the Art (Above):  

"Fresco of a Christian Agape Feast," Catacombe of Priscilla, Rome, Italy

(2nd-4thC AD)

The Lord’s Prayer presents seven petitions. An appreciation of these petitions will be thoroughly examined as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also discussed will be the Faith Dynamics of the Active Catholic. We will prayerfully examine each dynamic as they help us embrace the compelling inspiration of the Lord’s Prayer.  Here, we will delve into full attentiveness, engagement and contemplation in this most revered of prayers.

Additional Insight:

Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

Join us in reflecting on the Sunday Gospel readings of Advent, 2024.  In the context of families, we join John the Baptist, Elizabeth, and Zachariah in their preparation for the coming of the Lord.

What a time to return to the heart.  In this eight-episode season, we reflect Pope Francis' insights on love and are called to compunction, consolation, and reparation.

A one-episode Season for Spiritual Directors.

We explore the themes of Pope Francis' final encyclical, Dilexit Nos as they inform and invite spiritual directors to listen to the hearts of those they accompany.  We move from intellectual, psycho-affective, and sentient realms to the heart wherein resides the Divine Voice.  We move out of the external and internal noise created by an imbalanced anthropology so well described by Pope Francis to the quiet where we encounter the Holy Spirit in the other.

We will appreciate the covenant value of Catholic marriage and family life.  We'll examine the key role of the Catholic family expressed by Pope Francis in his 2015 books, "The Joy of Love," and "On the Family."

Having turned our hearts to Christ in  Season 6, we will  now explore a blueprint to an ethic of conforming to Christ in every day of our lives.  Join us in exploring the story of the Rich Young Man and the Beatitudes through the lens of insights from St. John Paul II's 1993 encyclical, "Veritatis Splendor."

Join us in embracing prudence as the executor of conscience as we look at the cardinal virtues in this exciting study.

We've embraced an ethic.  We've got our moral toolbox.  Now, what guides us?  An examination of moral principles.

How do we make and sustain good habits leading to physical, emotional, spiritual, and academic health?