Ch. 12
1. What are the known battlefields in your husband's life?
2. Share an experience of the protecting hand of God.
Ch. 13
3. How do you maintain an attitude of thankfulness and praise?
4. What growth has came in your marriage as a result of trials?
Personal Reflection-Are there ways that you try to take away your husbands burdens that you should not? What can/should you do instead?
Action Point-Pray for your husband's safety.
Showing posts with label Chapter 13. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapter 13. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Chapter 13: Breaking the Spiritual Silence (Rule 13)
Definitions:
chimera (164)- A fire-breathing she-monster usually represented as a composite of a lion, goat, and serpent.
mendacity (166)-The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
Questions:
1. Reflect on a time when you felt unable to speak about an interior burden. How was it eventually lifted?
2. Who are the appropriate spiritual people in your life that you can confide in and seek advice from?
3. Why does speaking our fears aloud diminish there ability to hinder us?
4. How do you overcome the hesitation to speak/desire to speak dynamic?
chimera (164)- A fire-breathing she-monster usually represented as a composite of a lion, goat, and serpent.
mendacity (166)-The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
Questions:
1. Reflect on a time when you felt unable to speak about an interior burden. How was it eventually lifted?
2. Who are the appropriate spiritual people in your life that you can confide in and seek advice from?
3. Why does speaking our fears aloud diminish there ability to hinder us?
4. How do you overcome the hesitation to speak/desire to speak dynamic?
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Chapter 13: Persistent Miracles-a Model for Training
1. What people, books or other sources have been valuable to your own training?
2. Which methods of training your children have you found to be effective?
3. What helps you to persevere in your vocation as mother, especially when your efforts seem futile?
4. Write down what you think should be the primary goal of our instruction and training. Then read 1 Tim 1:5 [whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.] What does this verse say about the goal of our instruction? How does your stated goal compare with the one that Paul expressed to Timothy? What changes, if any, do you need to make to your goals and daily responses in the light of this comparison?
Action Point-The book of Proverbs was written to teach young people how to be wise and how to have godly character. Determine to read from the first four chapters of Proverbs each day for one month to your children. Ask them to make a list of the wise principles they hear as you go along. Memorize one verse together each week and say it aloud daily.
2. Which methods of training your children have you found to be effective?
3. What helps you to persevere in your vocation as mother, especially when your efforts seem futile?
4. Write down what you think should be the primary goal of our instruction and training. Then read 1 Tim 1:5 [whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.] What does this verse say about the goal of our instruction? How does your stated goal compare with the one that Paul expressed to Timothy? What changes, if any, do you need to make to your goals and daily responses in the light of this comparison?
Action Point-The book of Proverbs was written to teach young people how to be wise and how to have godly character. Determine to read from the first four chapters of Proverbs each day for one month to your children. Ask them to make a list of the wise principles they hear as you go along. Memorize one verse together each week and say it aloud daily.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Chapter 13: Judas and the First Crack in His Priesthood
Definition: unguent (page 214)-ointment: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
1. How do we guard against avarice while using prudence (the proximate guidance for the judgment of conscience, see CCC 1806) with our resources? (page 215)
2. In our culture of self-determinism, how can we become "slaves of obedience" and teach our child(ren) to do the same? (page 216)
3. "The Church, which is the continuing Christ, must always expect such hostile coalitions in times of crisis. Evil is hypersensitive to goodness. It detects a challenge to its existence long before good men are awake to the signs of the times." Perhaps the media fixation with priest scandals are, in part, an attack on the Church's "new springtime" that Pope John Paul II spoke about. What signs of this springtime do you see? (page 220)
4. How much do we emphasize/strive for humility? (page 221)
5. As Judas and Nietzsche did, modern media often embraces evil as good. How can we guard against the trend toward the secular value of moral relativism? (page 225)
6. How can we help foster devotion to the Divine Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist in our child(ren)? (page 229)
1. How do we guard against avarice while using prudence (the proximate guidance for the judgment of conscience, see CCC 1806) with our resources? (page 215)
2. In our culture of self-determinism, how can we become "slaves of obedience" and teach our child(ren) to do the same? (page 216)
3. "The Church, which is the continuing Christ, must always expect such hostile coalitions in times of crisis. Evil is hypersensitive to goodness. It detects a challenge to its existence long before good men are awake to the signs of the times." Perhaps the media fixation with priest scandals are, in part, an attack on the Church's "new springtime" that Pope John Paul II spoke about. What signs of this springtime do you see? (page 220)
4. How much do we emphasize/strive for humility? (page 221)
5. As Judas and Nietzsche did, modern media often embraces evil as good. How can we guard against the trend toward the secular value of moral relativism? (page 225)
6. How can we help foster devotion to the Divine Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist in our child(ren)? (page 229)
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