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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
- In all that you read from this document and the instructor’s commentary, what did you find most helpful?
- What did you find most challenging? Why?
- Recall a time when you followed Christ into suffering. How do you know it was Christ you followed? Was the experience salvific for anyone?
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
- What did you find most helpful in Part III? Why?
- How do you feel knowing that we can question God about our suffering, with all the emotion of our hearts, full of dismay and anxiety, and God expects the question and listens to it (paragraph 10)? How does that help your relationship with him?
- Knowing that punishment “creates the possibility of rebuilding goodness in the subject who suffers” (paragraph 12), how can we assist others in rebuilding their goodness without making them feel condemned?
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
- What did you find most helpful in this week’s lesson? Why?
- What is your parish or your ministry doing to help Catholics get to heaven? What else should be done to help Catholics understand God’s redemptive love?
- What has helped YOU understand God’s redemptive love?
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
- How have you experienced the redemptive love of Jesus through your own sufferings?
- What did you learn from writing your Passion Story?
- Have your ideas of what Christ’s crucifixion accomplished been changed by this part of the document? How so?
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
- Define the vocation of suffering in your life or in someone you admire.
- Which statement in Part VI of this document had the biggest impact on you? Why?
- How has the Blessed Mother assisted you in your Gospel of suffering?
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
- Which milieux of Good Samaritan work have you been most active in: organizations, individual, or family? How do you know God has called you to this ministry?
- Recalling what this document says about the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 25 (separating the sheep from the goats), how does doing good for those who suffer affect your salvation? Why is this not a contradiction of the doctrine of being saved by grace? Note: being “saved by grace” means we are saved by accepting in faith what Jesus did for us on the Cross, rather than by earning our way into heaven through good works.
- Name one thing you learned from this document that is most helpful, most life-changing, or most significant.
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