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Donate Now! The Call To Christian Happiness CD Set Friendship With God CD Set

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The Catherine of Siena Institute is a program of the Western Dominican Province dedicated to equipping parishes for the formation of lay Catholics for their mission in the world. Support our work to make apostolic formation and support readily available to all lay Catholics. Click the title to donate.

The Call To Christian Happiness CD Set

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Christ promised his burden would be light. If you're more familiar with the burden end of that statement, it's time to experience the lightness. In this provocative, refreshingly original presentation, Fr. Michael and Sherry explore the meaning and method of Christian happiness. Drawing upon the teachings of C.S. Lewis, John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, Venerable John Henry Newman, and others. Four hours - Three CD's - Digitally mastered for clarity and quality - Includes notes and extensive outline all in an attractive bookshelf package.

Friendship With God CD Set

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Dominican Fr. Michael Sweeney talks on friendship with God, giving us a deeply challenging and insightful look at our relationship with God. This four-session presentation examines our predispositions, assumptions, and call concerning our status as God's friends, using parables and personal stories to reveal the unimagined intimacy and dignity to which our Lord invites us.
Four sessions on three compact discs indexed into tracks for ready reference.

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Offerings:

 Making Disciples:  Making Disciples is a seminar that trains parish leaders to fostering the awakening of personal faith in Christ and intentional discipleship. The evangelizing awareness and skills learned in MD can be applied to almost any kind of ministry situation and used with family, friends, and co-workers.

 Making Disciples is available in a 5 day format (Sunday at 6pm through Thursday at noon) or a two weekend format (Thursday at 6pm through Saturday at 3pm).  The two weekends are held approximately 2 months apart with practical "homework" in between.

 Evangelizing Post-Modern Catholics 1 ¼ hour. (An Introduction to post-modernity, pre-discipleship spiritual thresholds and the art of Making Disciples.)

 Spiritual Climate and Evangelization 1 hour. (How the cultural changes of the past 50 years have dramatically changed how we must go about proclaiming Christ)

 Telling the “Great Story":  How to Change Lives by Introducing Others to Jesus (A one day, 9 am – 5pm, practical workshop in learning to share the basic Gospel of Jesus Christ with others.)

 Parish-Based Evangelization  (A 1 ½ hour presentation on parish-based evangelization processes that have changed the lives of millions of ordinary Catholics.)

 The Charisms: Key to Evangelization. 2 hours  (An introduction to the charisms and how discerning and exercising these gifts of the Holy Spirit reveals Christ and remove impediments to faith and the journey to discipleship.)

 Evangelizing through RCIA: 3 hour version   (Introduction to spiritual climate, intentional discipleship, pre-discipleship spiritual thresholds and their significance in the RCIA journey.)

 Evangelizing through RCIA: One day version (9 – 4pm) (Introduction to spiritual climate, intentional discipleship, pre-discipleship spiritual thresholds, the “Great Story of Jesus  - the kerygma  - and the challenge to conversion, introduction to the art of evangelizing conversations.)