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Find the answers that will deepen your faith this fall.  How well do you know Christ, our King…

Come together with others in the parish to listen to the newest series by Bishop elect Robert Barron titled “Mystery of God.”

Sessions will be at the Fireside Room on the following Tuesdays:

• October 6, 13, 20, 27
• November 10, 17 (note November 3 is Election Day and we will not meet)

Each day, you may attend either session:

• Morning from 10A to 11:30
• Evening from 7 PM to 8:30 PM

Each teaching session stands alone. There will be an opportunity for an offering at each session. Drop in to one, or all, depending on your time available.  Need transportation or childcare? Please call the parish office at 858-459-4975.

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS AND THE PATHS TO GOD — October 13

In the thirteenth century, St. Thomas Aquinas composed his famous five paths to God. His proofs don’t depend on the Bible or divine revelation. They simply start from the world around us—trees, birds, buildings, and even ourselves. Thomas noticed that none of these things have to exist. But if that’s the case, there must be some cause behind them, something grounding their existence. For Thomas and all Christians since, we know this source of all being by its ancient name—God.

THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES — October 20

Once we understand who God is, we naturally wonder, “What is he like? How does he act?” We can never fully answer those questions. Yet we can know that God is self-sufficient—he doesn’t need the world but creates it out of love. God is omniscient, knowing all things. God is omnipresent, everywhere in existence. Through these attributes we discover a God who presses upon the world, always and everywhere, not aggressively but only with love.

PROVIDENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL — October 27

Perhaps the most difficult question in theology is this: Why does God allow evil? If God is all-good and all-powerful, then why are our lives marked with pain and suffering? These are not abstract questions. They go right to the heart of our experience. We have each wrestled with misery, wondering when God would intervene. As with Job, God does not give us answers. He instead offers a person: the crucified Jesus, through whom God enters our suffering and makes it his own.

EXPLORING THE TRINITY — November 10

The most important event in human history took place when God, infinite and incomprehensible, became a finite and familiar man, Jesus Christ. While some people reduce Jesus to a wise teacher, the testimony of scripture and the early Church makes it clear that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God incarnate. He’s the Second Person of the Trinity. And by his sacrificial death and glorious resurrection, we too can enter into Trinitarian life.

THE GOD WHO IS LOVE — November 17

The book of Genesis reveals that we are made in the image and likeness of God. What does this mean? For St. Augustine it affirmed that our own traits—our minds, our self-knowledge, our self-love–can tell us something about God as a Trinity. What is Christianity finally about? What is the deepest meaning of being and all reality? The Christian answer is this: God is love, a play of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.