STM Singles St Malo Retreat 2008
Your Sin, How Original is It
"Come to Recognize the Beauty of the Cross"
"understanding the nature of man’s sin
“Sin, Pathway to learning-The Hard Way”
March 17, 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
March 29, 2008
Faith Saved in Hope SPE SALVI
Faith is the “substance” of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen. Saint Thomas Aquinas,4 using the terminology of the philosophical tradition to which he belonged, explains it as follows: faith is a habitus, that is, a stable disposition of the spirit, through which eternal life takes root in us and reason is led to consent to what it does not see.
Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent: it gives us something. It gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a “proof” of the things that are still unseen. Faith draws the future into the present, so that it is no longer simply a “not yet”. The fact that this future exists changes the present; the present is touched by the future reality, and thus the things of the future spill over into those of the present and those of the present into those of the future.
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
SPE SALVI
April 02, 2008
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you.
