Just so I have a test post to use when setting up the feed on the webpage, here is a quick list of things I had on my mind to add to our discussions eventually:
- Fight to protect your state of grace following confession
- Man’s uncanny ability to deny God, and to explain experience away
- What are the Protestant claims about our church?
- Was St. Patrick Catholic (some pastor tried to tell me he wasnt)
- Are we learning who Jesus was and worshiping that guy, or are we imagining what we want Jesus to be and creating a God to worship that we prefer to the real thing?
- Is there such a thing as objective truth or is it just a series of personal interpretations of our own truth’s?
- Morals & Ethics – where does the church get off on telling us what is right or wrong? What is the church structure behind moral teaching. Is it a role of the dice or how some Pope felt that day after breakfast?
- Magisterium & sacred tradition
- Prayers and prayer life
- Find your quiet time.
- Liturgical year
- Eschatology
- Stewardship
- When does moral fortitude become self-righteousness?
- Is “tough love” a real thing?
- If moral decisions tend to have immediate consequences, how do we know or learn if what we did was right or wrong? Is it usually a sacrifice on our part or does it uplift us?
- Lessons from the Parables
- 5 precepts of the church
- Virtues that offset or counterbalance Vices
- Why do we have Sacraments?
- Is our journey of faith completely private or something to be shared?
- What the heck are dogma’s
- Infallibility of the Pope – the last infallible teaching from a Pope was…
- Literally ANYTHING from Scott Hahn, Jeff Cavins, Fr Mike Schmitz, Bishop Robert Baron, Peter Kreeft, Fr Larry Richards etc
- Discerning your vocation
- Teaching our children virtues- how to assess future spouses in the dating process, maintaining purity and why
- Social culture – what messages are you receiving, distractions from God and your holiness, TV movies internet cell phones music. Diabolical messaging
- Is Evil real or hypothetical
- What is Satanism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Flames fans
- Do we worship Mary and the Saints?
- Catholic Bibles vs Protestant – are you reading it anyway?
- Bioethics, abortion, euthanasia, IVF, value of life
- When someone says “the greater good” should you run or fight first?
- Church councils, and our creeds
- Mystagogy
- Holy Trinity – Just what the heck is the Holy Spirit anyway?
- The ten commandments
- LGBTQ rights, issues, teachings
- Forgiveness, loneliness, trust, reconciliation, restoration
- Sin & fear & control
- Is Hell a real place? Is Heaven?
- Is it safe to believe in the miraculous? Eucharistic miracles, Marion apparitions, miracle healings etc? How do you properly discern and respect them without putting your eggs in the basket? Does it give glory to God? Does it give glory to something or someone else? What’s the value or importance of it and the message? Is the message or proof from God?
