MSW Ethics March 16 Class
Please read chapter 21 from the Fagothey book. the study questions are attached.
Please also read chapter 22 for next week (3/23) Questions will follow soon.
February 21 Mardi Grad
For those who are not seriously overindulging this
Fat Tuesday. Here is my Ash Wednesday Homily to reflect on.
It is an audio mp3 file.
February 16 2012, MSW Ethics students
I have attached the study questions for the two chapters from Helming entitled “Know yourself” and “Own yourself.”
Please do what you can to have them ready to discuss tomorrow.
February 9 MSW ethics students
Please read the first chapter entitled “Know Thyself” from the above PDF for class tomorrow. I apologize for the lateness of this posting.
Fr. Rob Jack
***LPS 302 Christology class cancelled tonight ***
Please keep reading through the Synoptic you chose and the Ratzinger book.
January 9 MSW Ethics students
The study questions for chapters 14 and fifteen are attached. The class notes for chapter 15 are also available for download.
January 3, MSW ethics students
Please read chapter 14 on the virtues for class on Friday. I have attached the class notes and the questions will soon be posted.
Christmas Day Homily 2011
Christmas Homily 2011
For most of us, the word Christmas is a word full of wonder. It conjures up so much in our hearts. Christmas is so wonderful for us because it is full of MEMORIES. They started when we were little and asked Santa for that Raggedy Ann or Barbie, that dollhouse, that Flexible Flyer sled, that red wagon or Lionel train. When we got up very early Christmas morning, the air was fresh with the scent of the pine tree and bright with the colored lights and we saw the wrapped gifts that were left for us. When we got older, we see the excitement in the eyes of our children.
We also remember the sad times, the first Christmas after the death of a loved one. There were also the family arguments and the disappointment of not finding what we really wanted under the tree. All of these memories recall the joy and the sadness, the silly and the serious. They make up who we are. We need these memories to remember who we are and what we are truly about.
We also remember coming to Mass. Midnight Mass with the Baby Jesus being placed in the manger, the incense and candles and the singing. Children dressed up as angels and shepherds. We need to remember the birth of Jesus Christ in order to remember who we really are as well.
God has shown us who we are by taking on our human nature. He wants to make us his children, so his Son comes down as one of us. He also wants to give us back something that we have lost, which is ourselves. We have given ourselves away to many different things: jobs, expectations of other people, the demands of the culture, and even fear. It seems that things have become more of an obligation and no longer a gift. Most things are self-centered and not other centered.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God has been born for us to open up for us the real possibilities of love and life and joy. We see the Christ laid in the manger with arms open wide. He is inviting us to embrace him and love him and talk to him. There is also another time in which his arms are opened for us, and that is on the cross. The tree that gives us life is not evergreen and covered with lights and tinsel. It is hard and bare and Jesus himself is nailed to it so that he could free us from the nails that hold us from Christmas joy: regrets, resentments, our sins.
We gather together on this holy night around an altar of sacrifice. The priest asks us to lift up our hearts and offer to God our joys and sorrows and hopes and dreams. God alone can fill us with a joy and peace that is greater than any material gift we can imagine. God alone can free us from the suffering and grant healing to our sorrowful hearts. From this very altar we receive the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ himself. He is THE GIFT, that if received frequently with a pure heart, will keep us strong in the gift of faith and daily remind us that with the Child in the manger, God makes us a solemn promise: You will never be alone again. I will be with you always. I will be your strength, I will give you back yourself and fill you with life.
God changes all the rules tonight. He is so close to us. He is so real to us. We could not make it back to him on our own, so he lifts us up through Jesus his Son. He comes to us in the silence and asks us to listen to his voice that speaks of his love for us. He asks us to trust in him and depend on him by offering him a daily prayer of thanks and petition. He asks us to confess our sins not so that he can punish us, but so that he can forgive us.
Tonight and tomorrow, new memories will be made by each of us. May they be wonderful ones. God, however does not need a memory of us. He is always with us in the present. But He knows that when we DO THIS IN MEMORY OF HIM, when we offer this sacrifice together and eat his body and drink his Blood, we know that God has not just done something in the past. We believe that God is working in us right now, healing us and offering us his love. Let us always embrace the new born Son of God, Jesus Christ, and find in him our hope and strength, because he will never let us go.
November 29 MSW Ethics students
Study questions Chapters 11-13
Study questions for chapters 11-13 are available in the attachment above.
November 10, 2011 MSW Ethics Students
Chapter 12 Obligations and Sanctions
I have attached files for chapters 7, 10, 11, 12. they are in a .docx format so if you have windows Vista or 7 you should be able to open them. You can also open them in XP if you have the patch the microsoft provided. Let me know if you are unable to access them.
