The Ties That Bind
1. What’s Going On In the World?
a.Politics/Goverments
b.Culture/Media/Arts
c.The Church/Parishes/Priests &Bishops
d.The Family – Motherhood,Fatherhood,Childhood
2. What’s the Cause? The Root?
a.Our understanding/concept of self
b.Our understanding/concept of our purpose
c.Our understanding/concept of our goal
d.Our understanding/concept of God
e.Our understanding/concept of how we relate to one another
f.Our understanding/concept of how we relate to the physical world/nature
g.Our understanding/concept of how we relate to the supernatural/spiritual
3. Where do the Misunderstandings/Confusions Come From?
a.philosophy and anthropology what are they and why do they matter?
b.Christian philosophy and anthropology what happened to it?
c. Marxist philosophy and anthropology what is it?
d.What does the Church have to say about Marxism?
e.What has the human experience of Marxism been?
f.Why is Marxism so deceptively appealing?
g.Neo-Marxism – How does it manifest itself in the modern world?
h.Neo-Marxism – How does it manifest itself in the modern Church?
i.Neo-Marxism – its dangers and how to defend ourselves against it
4. Our Lady of Fatima
a.What is the message of Fatima?
b.Why then? Why now?
c.JPII and Our Lady of Fatima
d.JPII and Theology of the Body
e.Why does Fatima matter so much today?
f.Fatima – Herein lies the key
5. Theology of the Body
a.What is TOB?
b.Is TOB narrowly focused?
c.The breadth and depth of TOB properly understood
d.TOB and modern culture
e.TOB and Neo-Marxism
f.TOB and contemplative Prayer (Carmelite Spirituality)
g.TOB and The Renewal of The Church
6. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
a.philosophy and anthropology effect the Liturgy
b.The Liturgy is not a Human Design – Where the Church went wrong
c.The liturgy and a sense of the Supernatural
d.The Liturgy and the Body
e.TOB and the Liturgy – how are they connected?
f.The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass the greatest weapon against Neo-Marxism today
g.Why restore the Liturgy? – predictions/ramifications
