This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org.
Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject.
The Catholic Faith is profoundly sacramental. The Church recognizes seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, and Holy Orders. These sacred actions contain and confer Christ’s healing, transformative Grace. This class will highlight the theological meaning, Biblical basis, historical development, and our own personal experiences of the sacraments.
The reality of the sacraments raises a number of complicated questions that this course will answer:
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Why baptize infants? Can the unbaptized be saved?
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Why confess one’s sins to a priest? Can a priest ‘forgive’ you?
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What even is a ‘priest’? Why is Holy Orders conferred only on men?
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Why should a sick person be anointed?
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Is marriage really ‘indissoluble’? How does an annulment differ from divorce?
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How can the Eucharist be more than bread and wine? What does the term ‘transubstantiation’ mean?
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And more!
SCHEDULE
January 9: The Biblical basis of Sacramentality, Sacraments, and Sacramentals
January 16: The Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist
January 23: The Eucharist: “The Sacrament of Sacraments”
January 30: The Eucharist and the Eucharistic Liturgy: “Source and summit of the entire Christian life.”
February 6: Sacraments of Healing: Reconciliation [aka Penance] and the Anointing of the Sick
February 13: Sacrament of Marriage
February 20: Sacrament of Holy Orders
FORMAT
Tuesdays, January 9-February 20
6:00pm: Dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
