The Catholic Faith

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1. 1God's Great Story15 lessons
   • In the Beginning
   • And It Was Good
   • Made in His Image
   • A Garden in Eden
   • The Serpent's Lie
   • A Promise in the Dark
   • The Bow in the Clouds
   • Abraham Counts the Stars
   • A Kingdom Without End
   • A Quiet Yes
   • God With Us
   • The Rescue
   • Go and Make Disciples
   • Called Children of God
   • Every Tear Wiped Away
2. 2Meet Jesus18 lessons
   • No Room in the Inn
   • Good News of Great Joy
   • Wise Men Follow a Star
   • The Hidden Years
   • My Father's House
   • The Heavens Opened
   • Come, Follow Me
   • The Twelve
   • Whom Jesus Welcomes
   • The Lost Sheep
   • The Father Who Ran
   • The Good Neighbor
   • Be Still
   • Five Loaves, Two Fish
   • Little Girl, Get Up
   • This Is My Body
   • Why the Cross
   • He Is Not Here
3. 3Come and See15 lessons
   • The House of God
   • The Table and the Lamp
   • Windows, Statues, and Candles
   • In the Name
   • Why We Kneel
   • The Lord's Day
   • Gathered in His Name
   • This Is My Body
   • Go in Peace
   • The Prayer Jesus Taught
   • Hail, Full of Grace
   • Pray Without Ceasing
   • Our Mother Too
   • Heroes of the Family
   • Your Name, Your Saint
4. 4Foundations51 lessons
   • The Story in Brief
   • The Witnesses Outside the Church
   • The Gospel Manuscripts
   • What the Skeptics Grant
   • The Minimal Facts
   • Weighing the Scholars' Rules
   • Stones That Speak
   • The Historian's Verdict
   • The Baptism in the Jordan
   • The Kingdom of God
   • Parables and Miracles
   • The Sermon on the Mount
   • Parables of the Kingdom
   • Conflict at the Temple
   • No One Takes It From Me
   • The Earliest Creed
   • The Empty Tomb
   • The Alternative Explanations
   • Facts Even Skeptics Grant
   • Holding the Facts Together
   • Our Future in His Body
   • Living as Resurrection People
   • The Word Made Flesh
   • True God and True Man
   • I Am the Way
   • The Twelve
   • Peter's Confession
   • The Great Commission
   • The Chain of Hands
   • Out of Jerusalem
   • The Witness of Blood
   • Built on Their Foundation
   • I Believe
   • And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son
   • The Spirit, the Church, and the Life to Come
   • Born of Water and the Spirit
   • The Eucharist
   • Confession and Anointing
   • Sealed with the Spirit
   • The Two Become One
   • Feed My Sheep
   • The Sign of the Cross
   • The Liturgy of the Word
   • The Liturgy of the Eucharist
   • The Sermon on the Mount
   • Eight Doors Into the Kingdom
   • Aquinas, the Gifts, and the Ladder
   • Poverty of Spirit
   • The Meek and Those Who Hunger
   • The Merciful and the Pure in Heart
   • Peacemakers and the Persecuted
5. 5The Early Church18 lessons
   • Apostolic Succession
   • Bishops, Priests, and Deacons
   • Religious Orders and the Vows
   • The Apostolic Fathers
   • The Eastern Fathers
   • The Western Fathers
   • Early Heresies
   • The Great Schism of 1054
   • The Reformation
   • Peter's Primacy
   • The College of Cardinals
   • The Conclave
   • One
   • Holy and Catholic
   • Apostolic
   • The First Martyrs
   • Three Centuries of Roman Persecution
   • The Modern Martyrs
6. 6Doctrine and Reason19 lessons
   • The Arian Controversy
   • Constantine and the Council
   • The Nicene Creed
   • One God in Three Persons
   • The Father
   • The Son and the Spirit
   • Sacramental Character
   • Ex Opere Operato
   • Matter and Form
   • This Is My Body
   • True God and True Man
   • The Seven Councils
   • Christ the Eternal High Priest
   • Omnipotence and the Paradoxes
   • Simplicity, Eternity, Immutability
   • Impassibility and the Cross
   • Faith and Reason
   • Answering the Objections
   • From the Philosopher's God to the Trinity
7. 7Grace and the Christian Life18 lessons
   • Partakers of the Divine Nature
   • The Life of God in the Soul
   • Give What You Command, Command What You Will
   • Made Righteous, Not Just Declared
   • Faith and Works
   • The Reformation and Reconciliation
   • The Reality of Sin
   • Conversion of Heart
   • Mercy Greater Than Sin
   • Words for the Journey
   • Love the Lord Your God
   • Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
   • The Voice in the Heart
   • Forming Your Compass
   • Choosing Well
   • Faith, Hope, and Love
   • The Four Hinges
   • Becoming What We Do
8. 8Practice and History18 lessons
   • The Pope's Three Offices
   • Curia, Diocese, Parish
   • Charisms of the Religious Orders
   • Vested for the Altar
   • Vessels of the Sacrifice
   • Seasons of Grace
   • Trent and the Counter-Reformation
   • Vatican I and Papal Infallibility
   • That They May All Be One
   • The Joyful Mysteries
   • The Sorrowful Mysteries
   • The Glorious Mysteries
   • The Twenty-Four Sui Iuris Churches
   • Unity in Faith, Diversity in Liturgy
   • The Eastern Catholic Churches
   • The Evangelical Counsels
   • Forms of the Vowed Life
   • The New Ecclesial Movements
9. 9Saints and Mystics19 lessons
   • Advent and Christmas
   • Lent and Easter
   • Pentecost and Ordinary Time
   • The Immaculate Conception
   • Theotokos — Mother of God
   • The Assumption
   • Mary Ever-Virgin
   • The Four Western Doctors
   • The Eastern Doctors
   • Modern Doctors of the Church
   • The Desert Fathers
   • Medieval Mystics
   • The Spanish Mystics
   • Padre Pio and Edith Stein
   • Maximilian Kolbe and Faustina
   • John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Pier Giorgio
   • The Contemplative Orders
   • The Mendicants
   • The Active Apostolic Orders
10. 10Scripture and Tradition18 lessons
    • The Septuagint and the Vulgate
    • The Council of Hippo
    • The Deuterocanonical Books
    • The Pentateuch
    • The Covenant Arc
    • The Suffering Servant
    • The Book of Job
    • The Psalter — Prayer Book of the Church
    • Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs
    • The Four Gospels
    • Acts and the Pauline Letters
    • A New Heaven and a New Earth
    • Sacred Scripture
    • Sacred Tradition
    • The Pillar of Truth
    • Romans and Galatians
    • Corinthians and Ephesians
    • The Prison Letters and the Pastorals
11. 11The Last Things18 lessons
    • The Particular Judgment
    • The Art of Dying
    • Hope at the Hour of Death
    • The Beatific Vision
    • The New Heavens and New Earth
    • The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
    • Purification Before Glory
    • Praying for the Dead
    • The Last Penny
    • Eternal Separation from God
    • The Reality of Final Choice
    • God's Mercy and Justice
    • The Parousia
    • The Last Judgment
    • Maranatha
    • Three States, One Church
    • Intercession Across Death
    • Indulgences and the Treasury of Merit
12. 12Living the Faith12 lessons
    • The Raising of the Heart
    • The Prayer of the Whole Church
    • Be Still and Know
    • The Rosary and Marian Devotion
    • Stations, Mercy, and Novenas
    • Sacramentals: Sacred Signs, Not Magic
    • Keeping Time God's Way
    • The Indispensable Minimum
    • Finding Your Vocation
    • Late Have I Loved You
    • Becoming Catholic
    • Do Not Be Afraid