Chapter 16: The Eucharist and the Body of the Priest

1.  How can a healthy Catholic view of the body help our daughters (and ourselves) avoid the low self-esteem perpetuated by our body conscience media/society?  (page 256)

2.  Do you treat your body as a temple of God?  Does your face reflect this fact?  (page 259)

3.  What practical steps do you and your husband take to guard the love in your marriage?  (page 260)

4.  Have you instructed your child(ren) about purity?  What illustrations did you use?  Did you consider any of Sheen's points?  (page 261-266)

5.  How does your faith express itself in sacrifice?  (page 267)

Chapter 15: How to Make a Holy Hour

1.  To what extent is meditation a part of your spiritual exercises?  (page 243)

2.  Share an example of a particularly fruitful meditation.  (pages 243-244)

3.  What is your favorite prayer posture?  (page 245)

4.  How do we show our love to God on a daily basis? our husband? our child(ren)?  (page 247)

5.  How has your increased knowledge of doctrine increased your love of Christ?  (page 249)

6.  "Today's strength must come from the Lord of today."  What helps you focus on the present rather than "forebodings and worries about the future"?  (page 250)

Chapter 14: Why Make a Holy Hour?

Definition:
Black Mass (page 233)-the name given to a ceremony supposedly celebrated during the Witches' Sabbath, which was a parody of the Catholic Mass.  Its main objective was the profanation of the Host, although there is no agreement among authors on how Hosts were obtained or profaned.

1.  How do you make time in the Presence of Our Lord?  (page 230)

2.  Is the Sacred Heart enthroned in your home?  What graces has this brought to your family?  (page 232)

3.  Share an example of how you have seen or felt grace through the hands of a priest.  (page 233)

4.  How have you become more "disposed to goodness" as your continue your walk with Christ?  (page 235)

5.  Remember your engagement story.  How does Christ "engage" you?  Do you respond to Him as you did to your fiance?  (page 236)

6.  What external escape from our worries and miseries do we seek?  (page 237)

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)

Chapter 12: Melchizedek and Bread

1.  How does having a priest from the line of Melchizedek rather than Aaron effect our worship experience?  (pages 200-202)

2.  Do you agree with Sheen that "[f]or the Christian who lives in the realm of grace, the demands of the holiness of God are not less demanding than they were for the Jew under the Old Testament"?  Why or why not?  (page 206)

3.  How is Christ a source of blessing to you?  A source of affliction to those you know who refuse to recognize the power of God?  (page 207)

4.  "What does each of us seek in Christ?  Is it something He has, or is it He?"  (page 212)

5.  What role does Eucharistic devotion play in your spirituality?  (page 212)

6.  How we help our child(ren) foster a holy reverence/fear of God, the sacraments and His dwelling?  (page 211)

Chapter 11: The Return to Divine Favor

1.  What helps keep you going when you want to give up?  (page 185)

2.  How can we move from imperfect contrition (remorse) to perfect contrition (repentance)?  (page 185)

3.  How can we teach our child(ren) and ourselves that obedience is an essential response of love?  (page 192)

4.  How do you express your agapao of your husband and child(ren)?  Your phileo of them?  (pages 192-193)

5.  How have your falls helped you grow in holiness?  (page 196)

6.  What part of St. Francis de Sales advice resonates with you?  (page 199)

Chapter 10: The Priest as Simon and Peter

1.  Which members of your family circle have brought you to Christ?  Whom have you brought to meet Him?  (page 164)

2.  "Praiseworthy intentions are always ready to hand, but I cannot find my way to the performance of them (Romans 7:18)."  How have you done with your Lenten resolutions?  (page 164)

3.  Which strong qualities are also your stumbling blocks?  (page 166)

4.  When/how has your awareness of your own sinfulness brought you closer to Christ?  (page 170)

5.  What helps you to embrace the cross as the source of Redemption, rather than try to escape as Judas did?  (page 172)

6.  How can we make prayer a daily a priority and practical reality?  (pages 174-177)

7.  What, besides prayer, replenishes you after giving of yourself?  (page 176)

8.  How often do we act as if our primary duty is our own sanctification?  (page 178)

9.  Is it easier for you to keep company with God in times of prosperity or trouble?  (page 182)