Several of you missed one or more of the handouts from this weekend. Mark scanned in the entire set for your convenience and reference.
deaconinstructionsoblate110708.pdf
deaconspiritualdirectionfrbill110708.pdf
deaconspiritualdirectionfrbill110808a.pdf
deaconspiritualdirectionfrbill110808b.pdf
deaconlectiodivinafrleisy110908.pdf
November 12 2008 | Formation Assignments | No Comments »
Some of the aspirants are not able to open the .docx file format in which our syllabus and homework were made available. I had similar problems even with the Office 2007 Compatibility pack, so I’ve converted those to the Word 97/2000/XP format, and attached those here:
Spiritual_Direction_and_Faith_Development_-_Lubbock.doc
Spiritual_History_Assignment_-_Lubbock.doc
November 07 2008 | Formation Assignments | No Comments »
Assuming you’re using the “Green Catechism” (Catechism of the Catholic Church Second Edition), and that, like me, you didn’t bother to look in the Table of Contents yet…
Page 861 (After the index and before the glossary) has a list of abbreviations helpful in understanding the footnotes and references in the CCC. This list, combined with the Index of Citations (page 689 and following) is critical to tracking down references.
June 02 2008 | Formation Assignments | No Comments »
These sites, in addition to those listed on the “Good Stuff” page linked above, and some general searching on Pharisee, Sadducee, Essene, Herod, etc. were helpful to me as I tried to get a better perspective on the Holy Land from 6BC to 1AD.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com
Keep in mind that it has a Jewish perspective, which may not always mesh well with Christian thinking and teaching, but there’s some good information here.
http://virtualreligion.net/iho/index.html
I don’t appreciate much of the commentary, since it comes from a very rationalist perspective, but the readings from Josephus and other ancient sources are presented in a manner that makes them very accessible, and some of the notes and discussions on the “historical Jesus” are helpful, if you can avoid being overly influenced by the Jesus Seminar’s heretical view of Jesus as just another rabbi, denying his deity and the authenticity of the scriptures.
June 02 2008 | Formation Assignments and Jesus Stuff | No Comments »