ADDENDUM I - A - DISCUSSION AIDS

CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY: Living Your Faith

Scripture
Luke 6:20-26 Mark 10:25
Mark 10: 17-22 Matthew 6:19-21 (want kingdom, sell all possessions, etc.)
Luke 12:33-34; 14:33 (Jesus expected followers to leave all) Mark 1:18, 20; 10:28-30; Luke 5:11
Luke 12:13-21 (What do you value?) Exodus 20:17 (Materialism)
   
Prayers
Hearts on Fire
"The Our Father"
"The Beatitudes"
"The Rosary"
Prayers for All Occasions
Rev. Frances Evans

Vision 2000 Cycle: A Praying Scripture in a Contemporary Way, Mission 2000, Cycle B, Mark Link

Particular Concerns: Pocketbook of Prayers
Faith, Hope and Love; Light; Peace and Justice; Patience; To Be a Good Citizen; Human Solidarity; Planet; Hungry of the World; Our Parish; Spiritual Growth
Ephesians 3

Catholic Prayers: A First Book

Pray All Ways,
Prayers for the Domestic Church, Prayers for the Servants Gods
Edward Hays
 
   
Readings

The Spirituality of Imperfection, Ernest Kurtz & Kathleen Ketcham

The Holy Longing, Ronald Rolheiser OMI
Finding God in All Things Following Christ in A Consumer Society, John Kavanaugh
Moment by Moment, Carol Ann Smith, SHCJ, and Eugene F. Merz, SJ Spirituality and Ethics: The Powers That Be, Walter Wink
Living in An Anxious World, Robert J. Wicks Here and Now, Henry Nouwen

Spiritual Living in A Material World, Morton Kelsey

Building God's People in a Materialistic Society, John H. Westerhoff III

Good Goats, Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn Sleeping with Bread, Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn
Prayers that Avail Much for the Workplace, Germaine Copeland May I Have This Dance? Joyce Rupp
Sadhana, Anthony deMello The Song of the Bird, Anthony deMello
Taking Flight, Anthony deMello
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality, Anthony deMello
   

 

ADDENDUM I - B - DISCUSSION AIDS

SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS IN OUR DAILY LIVES:

The Practice of Holiness at Home and at Work

Scripture
1 Peter 3:8-9; How to handle disagreements?
1 Corinthians 3; How to deal with jealousy?
1 John 4; How to form better relationships with own relatives, brothers & sisters? Ephesians 4:11-14 (Use our gifts and grow)
Ephesians 4: 31-32; How to be good to everyone? Thessalonians 5: 14 -15; What to do when irritated by actions of others?
Matthew 5: 3-11 and Luke 6: 20-26
(Beatitudes)
Luke 11: 5 – 13
(Jesus teaches about prayer and to persist)
Matthew 10 and Luke 10:1 – 20 (Apostolic mandate) Luke 12: 2 – 9
(Courage under persecution)
Judges 14 (Trust) 1 Kings 18:20-40
(Making up your mind: decisions)
-God Has Chosen Me -God of Day and God of Darkness
Prov. 28:27 (Taking care of the poor.) Ps. 55:5-8 (Escape: Need to face problems)
Spiritual Life Dynamic: Come, A Call Matthew 4:18-19, Mark 1:16-18, Luke 5: 1-11 (Peter and Andrew); Matthew 4:21-22, Mark 1:19-20, Luke 5:1-11 (James and John); Matthew 9:9, Mark 2:14, Luke 5: 27-28 (Matthew); John 1:35-51  
   
Prayers
"The Beatitudes" "The Our Father"
"The Rosary" "The Prayer of St. Francis"
Prayers for All Occasions, Rev. Frances Evans Catholic Prayers: A First Book

Particular Concerns, Pocketbook of Prayers, Faith, Hope and Love; Light; Peace and Justice; Patience; To Be a Good Citizen; Human Solidarity; Planet; Hungry of the world; Our Parish; Spiritual Growth

Pray All Ways: Prayers for the Domestic Church, Prayers for the Servants Gods, Edward Hays
Vision 2000 Cycle A Praying Scripture in a Contemporary Way, Mark Link Mission 2000 Cycle B, Mark Link
Ephesians 3  
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Readings
Spiritual Living in A Material World, Morton Kelsey The Powers That Be, Walter Wink
Eyes on Jesus, Michael Kennedy Experiencing God in Daily Life, Oregon Catholic Press
10 Ways to Balance Your Life On the Job, Gregory Pierce Your Soul at Work: Five Steps to A More Fulfilling Career and Life, Nicholas Weiler
Good Goats, Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn Moment by Moment, Carol Ann Smith, SHCJ, and Eugene F. Merz, SJ
Sleeping with Bread, Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn Teresa of Avila: Human Liberation, Vilma Seelaus, OCD (audio cassettes)
Teresa's Way of Peacemaking in a Nuclear Age, Vilma Seelaus, OCD(audio cassettes) http://www.americacatholic.org/
Messenger/Apr2002/Bible.asp
Prayers that Avail Much for the Workplace, Germaine Copeland May I Have This Dance?, Joyce Rupp Sadhana, Anthony deMello
The Song of the Bird, Anthony deMello Taking Flight, Anthony deMello
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality, Anthony deMello  
   
   

 

ADDENDUM I - C - DISCUSSION AIDS - SERENITY:

Finding God's Presence and Peace in the Stress of Daily Life

 

Scripture
2 Samuel 22:7 Psalm 55:22
Isaiah 41:10 John 16:33

Matthew 11:28

2 Corinthians 4:9

Phillipians 2

Psalm 139

Isaiah 50:4-10

Psalm 29: 11

Psalm 34

Psalm 62

Psalm 85

Psalm 103

Psalm 131

I Thessalonians 4:11

Romans 12:18

Hebrews 12:14

I Thessalonians 4:12

Colossians 3:13

Matthew 5:7-12

Proverbs 6:11

Romans 8:28

Philippians 4:11-12
   

Prayers

Prayers for All Occasions, Rev. Frances Evans

Catholic Prayers: A First Book, LTP

Pocket Book of Prayers
Selected with an Introduction by M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O
Serenity Prayer; Prayer for Spiritual Growth; Prayer for Patience; Come, Holy Spirit: The Sequence, Veni, Sancte Spiritus; Prayers to the Saints; Prayers of the Friends of God

Vision 2000 Cycle A, Mark Link Praying Scripture in a Contemporary Way

Vision 2000 Cycle B, Mark Link

Pray All Ways, Prayers for the Servants of God, Prayers for the Domestic Church,
Edward Hays

Prayers, Michel Quoist
Lord, You Have Seized Me; Before You, Lord

May I Have This Dance?, Joyce Rupp Leaning on God

The Rosary

The Prayer of St. Francis

The Beatitudes

 
   

Readings

Everyday Simplicity, Robert Wicks

Living A Gentle, Passionate Life, Robert Wicks

Living Simply in An Anxious World, Robert Wicks

How to Pray with the Heart, Fr. Stephen Valenta, OFM Conv.

Moment by Moment, Carol Ann Smith, SHCJ, and Eugene F. Merz, SJ

Prayers that Avail Much for the Workplace, Germaine Copeland

May I Have This Dance?, Joyce Rupp

Sadhana, Anthony deMello

The Song of the Bird, Anthony deMello

Taking Flight, Anthony deMello
Awareness, The Perils and Opportunities of Reality, Anthony deMello  
   
   

 

ADDENDUM I - D - DISCUSSION AIDS - THE GIFT OF GRACE:

Union with Christ through the Sacraments

Scripture

2 Peter 3:18 (Keep growing in grace)

John 20:21-23 (Power to forgive sins given to apostles)

Matthew 18:21-35

 


 

Baptism

Necessity of rebirth: John 3:5

Institution by Christ: Matt.28:18-20

Paul's theology of Baptism: Romans 6:3-22

And its meaning and effect: Galatians 2:19-20; 3:14, 26-29; Ephesians 1:3-5, 2:4-10; Colossians 1:14, 2:9-13; 3: 1-3; 1 Peter 1:3-5
   

Confirmation

Acts 8:14-17, 9:17-19, 10:5; Titus 3:4-8

 
   

Eucharist

Roots in Jewish Passover: Exodus 12:1-28

Melchizedek's offering: Gen. 14:18

The priesthood of David: Psalm 110

The priesthood of Jesus: Hebrews 8-10

Multiplication of loaves: John 6: 1-15

The Bread of Life: John 6:25-71

The Last Supper: Matt. 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:7-20

The Emmaus event: Luke 24: 13-53

The Apostolic Church: Acts 2: 42-27; 20:7

The meaning and effect of the Eucharist: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17
   

Reconciliation

Early Church ministry regarding post-baptismal sin: Matt. 18:15-18; 2 Thess.2:6, 14-15; 1 Tim. 1:19-20

Reconciliation before Communion: Mark 11:25; Mark 5:23-24

Commissioning the Church: John 20:19-23


   

Anointing the Sick

Institution and effects: James 5:13-16 Ministry of community to sick: Isaiah 52:13-53:12; 1 Corinthians 12:12-22, 24b-27; Matthew 25:31-40
Suffering: 2 Corinthians 12:9-10; Anointing the sick: Isaiah 61:1-3a; John 9:1-7
Healing: 1Kings 19:1-8; Acts 4:8-12; Matt.8:1-4 Healing and Forgiveness: Job 7:12-21; Mark 2:1-12
Power of Prayer: Job 7:12-21; James 5:13-18; Luke 11:5-13  
   
Marriage
Question of Divorce: Matthew 19:3-12; Mark 10:2-12 Christian Wives and Husbands: Ephesians 5:25-32
Believing Spouse Consecrates a Partner: 1 Corinthians 8:12-16  
   
Holy Orders
Installation of presbyters in early Church: Acts 14:22-23 Priestly Role: Hebrews 5:1-10
Counsel to Timothy: 1 Tim 4:12-16 Apostolic charge: 2 Tim 4:2, 5:7-8
Presbyter qualities: Titus 1:5-9  
   
Prayers
Ephesians 3 Catholic Prayers: A First Book
Particular Concerns: Pocketbook of Prayers; Faith, Hope and Love; Light Peace and Justice; Patience; To Be a Good Citizen; Human Solidarity; Planet; Hungry of the world; Our Parish; Spiritual Growth Prayers for All Occasions, Rev. Frances Evans
   
Readings
Good Goats, Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn Sleeping with Bread, Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn
Faith, Grace, and Revelation and Amazing Grac: A Vocabulary of Fatih, Kathleen Norris Moment by Moment, Carol Ann Smith, SHCJ, and Eugene F. Merz, SJ
The Seven Secrets of Successful Catholics, Paul Wilkes The Sacraments, How Catholics Pray, Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M. "The sacraments are such a special kind of prayer that many Catholics do not think of them as prayer at all!"
Rethinking the Sacraments, Bill Huebsch Sacramental Theology, Kenan B. Osborne
Anointing with the Spirit: The Rite of Confirmation, Gerard Austin On Becoming Christian: Christian Initiation and Its Sacraments, Henry Bourgeois
The Eucharist and the Hunger of the World, Monika Hellwig The Christian Sacraments of Initiation, Kenan B. Osborne
Confirmation, Paul Turner Penance and Reconciliation, Patrick Brennan
Reconciliation and Justification: The Sacrament and Its Theology, Kenan B. Osborne The Reconciling Community: The Rite of Penance, James Dallen
And You Visited Me: Sacramental Ministry to the Sick and Dying, Charles Gusmer Prophetic Anointing, James L. Empereur
Being A Priest Today, Donald Goergen A History of Ordained Ministry in the Roman Catholic Church, Kenan Osborne
Disciples and Leaders, John O'Grady Priesthood Today, Edward Schillebeeckx
Marriage and Sacrament: A Theology of Christian Marriage, Michael Lawler The Challenge of Christian Marriage, Thomas Martin
The Marital Sacrament, Theodore Mackin Promises to Keep, T. Hart and K.Fischer
May I Have This Dance? Joyce Rupp  
   
   

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