1. Thinking Thursday
You are trapped in a room. There is only a mattress and a calendar. How do you survive? You drink from the springs of the mattress and eat the dates from the calendar.

2. First Commandment

3. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve

4. Commands us to DO Demands that we accept God and worship Him
Embraces faith, hope, and charity.
Necessitates worship
Rejection of other deities.

5. Remember our Theological Virtues!
Faith, Hope, Charity
Remember our Theological Virtues!
- We follow and worship God our creator with faith, hope, and love, grateful to Him for creating and loving us.
- Nothing else should be put in God’s place.

6. 1 Kings 18

7. Virtue of Religion The proper worship of God.
Obliges one to believe in, trust, and love God.

8. Commands us NOT to DO Sins against Faith Sins against Hope
Sins against Charity
Sins Against Religion

9. Practical Atheism Sin against faith Rejecting God’s existence.
- Militant or New Atheism seeks to destroy religion as compared to simply disagree.
- Pascal’s Wager

10. Schism
Sin against faith. The rupture of ecclesiastical union and unity. The Great Schism of 1054 – Eastern Church splits from the West. Eastern Orthodox Christians do not recognize the Pope as leader of the Church.

11. Heresy
Any belief that opposes, deviates from, or rejects established tradition or dogma. Arianism Nestorianism Monophysitism

12. Apostasy
A complete and voluntary rejection or abandonment of the religion or faith.
Julian the Apostate

13. How can we respond to these?
Round Robin with your team as how you might respond to this sins?

14. Despair
To cease to believe in God’s goodness and mercy to the extent one no longer thinks his own salvation is possible

15. Presumption
One expecting salvation and forgiveness without personal effort of living one’s faith out, taking His grace for granted

16. Teambuilding Tuesday
Share your favorite super hero and why OR share what super power you would want to have and why

17. Lack of commitment in the exercise of the Catholic Faith.
Indifference
Lack of commitment in the exercise of the Catholic Faith.

18. Ingratitude
Not acknowledging and returning God’s love

19. Lukewarmness
Hesitation in responding to God’s call, putting Him off
Ex. Agnosticism – one does not know if God exists or believes that it is unknowable.
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will[l]spit you out of My mouth” Revelation 3:15-16

20. Hatred of God
Often is felt due to great tragedy or sin that one blames for God. Can lead to atheism.

21. Novena Prayer for the Beatification and Canonization of Fr
Novena Prayer for the Beatification and Canonization of Fr. Kapaun Lord Jesus, in the midst of the folly of war, your servant, Chaplain Emil Kapaun, spent himself in total service to you on the battlefields and in the prison camps of Korea, until his death at the hands of his captors. We now ask you, Lord Jesus, if it be your will, to make known to all the world the holiness of Chaplain Kapaun and the glory of his complete sacrifice for you by signs of miracles and peace. In your name, Lord, we ask, for you are the source of peace, the strength of our service to others, and our final hope. Amen. Chaplain Kapaun, pray for us.

22. All Souls Day
Heavenly Father, in union with the merits of Jesus and Mary, I offer to You for the sake of the poor souls all the satisfactory value of my works during life, as well as all that will be done for me after death. I give You my all through the hands of the Immaculate Virgin Mary that she may set free whatever souls she pleases, according to her heavenly wisdom and mother's love for them. Recieve this offering, O God, and grant me in return an increase of Your grace. Amen.

23. Idolatry
Putting something else in the place of God. Not just about pagan worship or golden calves.
What are things within our society that are “worshipped?”

24. Superstition
Either gives disordered worship to God (treating Him like a machine to be controlled with certain numbers of prayers) or believes certain objects or ritual actions to have supernatural power in themselves. Friday the 13th superstition, etc.

25. Occultism Resorting to supernatural powers other than God.
Divination – attempting to reveal the future or the unknown by paranormal means. This includes: palm reading, horoscopes, astrology, psychics, tarot cards, etc.
Magic - the desire to know and control occult forces –sometimes described as “nature” and passed off as not that bad. This commonly is found in Witchcraft, recognized in modern-day Wiccans many of whom claim to be “healers”.

26. Irreligion
This includes testing God which is really trying to control Him (if you really exist, Lord, save me when I jump off of this roof) and sacrilege which is disrespect for sacred persons, places, or things