Fr. Damian Series

What Catholics really believe about love, sex, men, women, dating, grinding, hooking-up, pornography, masturbation, condoms, contraception, oral sex, marriage, homosexuality, pleasure, and anything else you’ve ever wondered about but were too afraid to ask. A perfect way to celebrate Valentine’s Day!

The reasonable Christian understanding of God.  Over the past few years many books have been written attacking God and His existence.  This session will use philosophy, the Doctors of the Church, and modern examples to explain the reasonability of God’s existence, and will expose the major flaw of atheism.

Why Catholics Like Stuff.  As Catholics, we believe that God communicates to us not just through the spirit, but through matter as well.  The Son of God took on flesh to communicate the Father’s love to us, and God continues to communicate his love to us through water, oil, bread, wine, bodies, art, architecture, etc.  This session will explain the importance of “things” in the life of faith and will be a perfect warm-up to Holy Week.

The Secret to a Happy Life.  Jesus changed everything when he rose from the dead.  Rather than coming back to seek revenge and punish those who betrayed Him and killed Him, he offered them peace and a new chance at life.  It is only this peace that will truly bring us the freedom and happiness we desire.  This session will explain how we can make the peace of Christ our peace too.

What the Catholic Church Really Teaches and Why.  This session will clarify many of the misunderstandings that critics of the Catholic Church have about Catholicism: the pope, Mary and the saints, statues, salvation, authority, scripture, sacraments, tradition, personal relationship with Jesus, etc.  Come and hear what the Catholic Church really teaches, not what you think it teaches.

Bringing Jesus to the World.  Our Catholic faith is always personal, but is never to be private; it needs to be shared with the world.  This final session will address the importance of discipleship, vocation and mission in the life of a Catholic teenager, how we are sent out into the world to be salt and light, bringing the Gospel to all we meet through word and action.