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STM Singles Retreat 2008
April 25th-27th, 2008
2008 STM Singles Retreat
St Malo Catholic Retreat Center
Come join Father John Paul Leyba for an eye opening retreat to journey down the path to look at the very nature of sin. Come away with a better understanding of our struggles with sin.
*Your sin, how original is it?
*Understanding human nature.
*How can we live a joyful life?
*What is fallen about us?
*Come to recognize the beauty of the cross.
*Who are we?
*What is it like to be in the image of God?
*How can we live with mistakes we have made in the past and look in the mirror and know that we are loved?
*What does it mean to be human and fallen?
*How do you live a good life?
*How do we acknowledge ourselves as being a beautiful creature and sinful at the same time.
Facilitator: Rev John Paul Leyba
Music by: Brian Gonzales
"Saved In Hope"
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
SPE SALVI
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
BENEDICT XVI
TO THE BISHOPS
PRIESTS AND DEACONS
MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS
AND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL
ON CHRISTIAN HOPE
Introduction
1. “SPE SALVI facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom 8:24). According to the Christian faith, “redemption”—salvation—is not simply a given. Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: the present, even if it is arduous, can be lived and accepted if it leads towards a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is great enough to justify the effort of the journey. Now the question immediately arises: what sort of hope could ever justify the statement that, on the basis of that hope and simply because it exists, we are redeemed? And what sort of certainty is involved here?
Fifth Sunday of Easter Jesus, the Way
April 20th
Reading I
Acts 6:1-7
(the need of assistants)
Reading II
1 Peter 2:4-9
(living stones)
Gospel
John 14:1-12
(last discourse; the way, the truth, and the life)
Key Passage
I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.
(John 14:6)
Adult
In a challenge you face right now, what will it
mean to live the way of Jesus Christ?
Sixth Sunday of Easter The strength of faith
April 27th
Reading I
Acts 8:5-8, 14-17
(Philip in Samaria)
Reading II
1 Peter 3:15-18
(on Christian suffering)
Gospel
John 14:15-21
(promise of the Paraclete)
Key Passage
Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and he
will give you another Advocate, to be with you
forever.”
(John 14:16)
Adult
What difficulties have you overcome because of
your belief in the power of the Holy Spirit?
