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What are these quotes?

Elie Wiesel

Bl. JPII

Diocese of Phoenix - Kino Institute

4 February 2014 - Week Five

Student’s Prayer before Study

by St. Thomas Aquinas

Ineffable Creator,

Who, from the treasures of Your wisdom,

has established three hierarchies of angels,

has arrayed them in marvelous order

above the fiery heavens,

and has marshaled the regions of the universe

with such artful skill.

You are proclaimed

the true font of light and wisdom,

and the primal origin

raised high beyond all things.

Pour forth a ray of Your brightness

into the darkened places of my mind;

disperse from my soul

the twofold darkness

into which I was born:

sin and ignorance.

You make eloquent the tongues of infants.

Refine my speech

and pour forth upon my lips

the goodness of Your blessing.

Grant to me

keenness of mind,

capacity to remember,

skill in learning,

subtlety to interpret,

and eloquence in speech.

May You

guide the beginning of my work,

direct its progress,

and bring it to completion.

You Who are true God and true Man,

Who live and reign, world without end.

Amen.

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OUTLINE

6:30pm Prayer & Questions

6:45 Quiz & Discussion

7:00 First Commandment

7:30 Second Commandment

8:00 BREAK

8:15 Third Commandment

9:00 Evaluations

9:10 Questions?

FREEDOM from tyranny

Relativism preaches that there can be no such thing as absolute truth

and that man is his own god. Blessed John Paul II saw relativism at work

in Communism and Fascism that plunged the world into World War II. He

also saw how relativism crept into our democracies and tries to erase Jesus

Christ from homes, schools, and workplaces.

1. In Veritatis Splendor, how does Bl. John Paul II call us to

witness and equip ourselves in order to protect ourselves against

relativism?

2. How can we move past relativism to find (again) the absolute

truth of Jesus Christ so that our generation can find its (own) meaning

and dignity?

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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO

THE AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA"

VISITThursday, 19 January 2012

“When a culture attempts to suppress the dimension

of ultimate mystery, and to close the doors to

transcendent truth, it inevitably becomes

impoverished and falls prey, as the late Pope John

Paul II so clearly saw, to reductionist and

totalitarian readings of the human person and the

nature of society.”

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE

AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012

“With her long tradition of respect for the right relationship

between faith and reason, the Church has a critical role to play

in countering cultural currents which, on the basis of an

extreme individualism, seek to promote notions of freedom

detached from moral truth. Our tradition does not speak from

blind faith, but from a rational perspective which links our

commitment to building an authentically just, humane and

prosperous society to our ultimate assurance that the cosmos is

possessed of an inner logic accessible to human reasoning.”

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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE

AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012

“The Church’s defense of a moral reasoning based on the natural law is

grounded on her conviction that this law is not a threat to our freedom, but

rather a ‘language’ which enables us to understand ourselves and the truth

of our being, and so to shape a more just and humane world. She thus

proposes her moral teaching as a message not of constraint but of liberation,

and as the basis for building a secure future.”

“The Church’s witness, then, is of its nature public: she seeks to convince by

proposing rational arguments in the public square. The legitimate separation

of Church and State cannot be taken to mean that the Church must be silent on

certain issues, nor that the State may choose not to engage, or be engaged by,

the voices of committed believers in determining the values which will shape

the future of the nation.”

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE

AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012

“In the light of these considerations, it is imperative that the entire Catholic

community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the

Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds

increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness

of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most

cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion. Many of you have

pointed out that concerted efforts have been made to deny the right of

conscientious objection on the part of Catholic individuals and institutions

with regard to cooperation in intrinsically evil practices. Others have spoken to

me of a worrying tendency to reduce religious freedom to mere freedom of

worship without guarantees of respect for freedom of conscience.”

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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE

AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR "AD LIMINA" VISITThursday, 19 January 2012

“Here once more we see the need for an engaged, articulate and

well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense

vis-à-vis the dominant culture and with the courage to counter a

reductive secularism which would delegitimize the Church’s

participation in public debate about the issues which are determining the

future of American society. The preparation of committed lay leaders and

the presentation of a convincing articulation of the Christian vision

of man and society remain a primary task of the Church in your

country; as essential components of the new evangelization, these

concerns must shape the vision and goals of catechetical programs at

every level.”

SHEMA

Se questo è un uomo

Voi che vivete sicuri

Nelle vostre tiepide case

voi che trovate tornando a sera

Il cibo caldo e visi amici:

Considerate se questo è un uomo

Che lavora nel fango

Che non conosce pace

Che lotta per mezzo pane

Che muore per un sì o per un no.

Considerate se questa è una donna

Senza capelli e senza nome

Senza più forza di ricordare

Vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo

Come una rana d'inverno.

Meditate che questo è stato

Vi comando queste parole.

Scolpitele nel vostro cuore

Stando in casa andando per via

Coricandovi alzandovi

Ripetetele ai vostri figli.

O vi si sfaccia la casa

La malattia vi impedisca

I vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.

SHEMAIf This Is a Man ~ Primo Levi (1919-1987)

You who live safe

In your warm houses,

You who find, returning in the evening,

Hot food and friendly faces:

Consider if this is a man

Who works in the mud,

Who does not know peace,

Who fights for a scrap of bread,

Who dies because of a yes or a no.

Consider if this is a woman

Without hair and without name,

With no more strength to remember,

Her eyes empty and her womb cold

Like a frog in winter.

Contemplate/Consider that this came about:

I commend these words to you.

Engrave/Carve them on your hearts

At home, in the street, (When you are in your house, when you walk on your

way,)Going to bed, rising; (When you go to bed, when you rise.)

Repeat them to your children.

Or may your house fall apart,

May illness impede you,

May your children turn their faces from you.

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The First CommandmentTo Love God above All Else

1. God, the Foundation of Human Existence

2. Worship of God:

Practical Exercise of the Theological Virtues

3. Worship of God: The Virtue of Religion

4. Sins against the Virtue of Religion

The Second CommandmentNot Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain

1. Grandeur of God’s Name

2. OathsOT Doctrine Concerning Custom of Taking Oaths

NT Doctrine Concerning Oaths

Necessary Conditions for Lawful Use of Oaths

3. Vows

4. Irreverent Use of the Name of God

5. Blasphemy against God, the Virgin Mary, & the Saints

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The Third CommandmentKeeping Holy the Lord’s Day

1. Importance of the Sabbath in the OT

2. The Lord’s Day in the NT

3. The Christian Sunday

4. Obligation of Attending Holy Mass (Sundays, Holy Days)

5. Obligation to Rest

6. Activity Permitted on Sunday

7. Reclaiming Sunday: Dies Domini

“The sabbath was made for man,

not man for the sabbath.” Mt 2:27

Formulate a response to these common objections:

• “I don’t want to go to Mass because I don’t get anything out of it.”

• “I think a person can pray just as well at home as at Church.”

How does modern culture inhibit the observance the Christian

observance of Sundays? Cite examples.

Make a list of activities that families can do on Sunday that would

facilitate a return to the day’s festive character.

What does the pastoral letter (from Bps. Olmsted and Nevares) say to

families about how they can/should participate in this Year of Faith?http://www.diocesephoenix.org/uploads/docs/YEAR-OF-FAITH-

PASTORAL-LETTER-ENGLISH.pdf

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FINAL ESSAY

Christian, recognize your dignity! For

know you partake of divine nature; do

not degenerate by turning back to your

past state. Remember what Head you

belong to and to what Body you are a

member of. Remember that you have

been snatched away from the power of

darkness to be transported to the light

of the kingdom of God.

St. Leo the Great

EVALUATIONS

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QUESTIONS?

“The glory of God is man fully alive.”

St. Irenaeus

You must do the right thing,

for the right reason,

in the right way.