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)