Adult Faith Enrichment

The purpose of the Adult Faith Enrichment ministry is to see faith as an on-going life process; to enhance prayer life and to deepen our friendship with God. All are most welcome to attend the following events!

Upcoming Events:
Presented by Dr. Jack Buchner. All are welcome. No registration fee.
For more information: Contact Dr. Jack Buchner, Director of Adult Evangelization & Catechesis, at 410-464-4004 or by email.

• Communication: A Biblical Perspective
  When: Sunday, Feb. 7, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
  Where: Parish Center
  We'll discuss: What is the relationship between communication and happiness? What does scripture tell us about communication? How can see this critical topic from God’s perspective? What practical difference will it make in our lives, and in the lives of others?

Lent 2010:

• Attachments and Grace
  When: Tuesday March 9, 9:00 am
  Where: Cathedral Undercroft
  We'll discuss: This presentation will look at the various attachments and addictions we have in our lives, and how God’s grace works in and through them. What are attachments How do they affect our lives? Are there spiritual approaches to them? Is there hope for dealing with attachments? Come join us!
   
• Friendship
  When: Tuesday, March 16, at 9 am, in the
  Where: Cathedral Undercroft
  We'll discuss: What can we make of the universal experience of lonliness? What is the answer to loneliness? What is friendship? What characterizes friendship? How does one grow in the direction of friendship? How does friendship touch our lives personally and communally? Come join us!

What is the Good News?

Evangelists share "the Good News". But what is this Good News?

Gospel literally means "Good News". The Good News is sharing the story that tells how God sent His Son into the world to be one of us. How He came with extraordinary love and compassion. Then, as a young man, He was tortured and killed. By people just like us.

But because He is the Author of life, death could not contain Him.

He rose from the dead.

And because He is risen, we too can have new life.

This is the REALLY good news: we don't have to wait until we die to have new life. Salvation is not just about the rescue from what happens after we die.

It is about being rescued from a life that is disconnected from God and God's adventure, in this life and the next.

When Jesus spoke, His attention was not usually focused on life in the next world. No, Jesus offered people a spiritual transformation that would make them a new kind of people, a people filled with joy, living life to the fullest, living out love and justice in the world.

Life with Jesus is truly an adventure.

Salvation is not just believing certain doctrines. Salvation is a lifetime of asking "What would Jesus do?" in the many situations of life.

Salvation is knowing Jesus. Not knowing things about Him. But really knowing Him. Knowing that He talks to you and listens when you talk back. That He cares for you even more than your mother does and in your darkest hour, He is standing next to you.

Franklin Graham is coming to Baltimore. He is an evangelist and spends most of his waking hours sharing the Good News. This is what he says:

"Telling someone else the Good News of Jesus Christ is one of the greatest privileges I know, because when others hear and believe the Gospel, their lives are changed forever."

John Paul II, one of the greatest evangelists of this century says this:

"Woe to me if I do not preach the Good News. My direct contact with people who do not know Christ convinces me even more of the urgency of evangelism. People everywhere, open the door to Christ! Accept Christ and open your self to the word of God and your life will be changed forever."

Life is an adventure in Christ. The Holy Spirit is doing amazing work in a world that is so much in need of Good News.

Your baptism commissions you as an evangelist. Confirmation empowers you with gifts to share the Good News. And Eucharist fills you with the life of Christ.

Now is the time to share the Good News!

And thank God for the gift of being Catholic!

This week, in preparation for your calling as an evangelist, pray this prayer:

Lord of creation, may the fire of Jesus, enkindled in me by the Holy Spirit lead more and more people in Baltimore to become disciples, formed in the image of
Christ Our Savior.

With our brother and sister Catholics throughout this city we pray for a spirit of renewal in our Church, The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, and new life for all who seek to know Christ.

Blessed Mary, patroness of our parish and Queen of Heaven, pray for us. Peter and Paul, pray for us.

AMEN