1. Pope Pius XII Part 1 – Chapters 1, 2 and 3
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Pope Pius XII Part 1 – Chapters 1, 2 and 3
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Catholic Committee on Scouting

2. Before We Begin Welcome Rancho Alegre Dorm Rules Location Instructions
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Before We Begin
Take Hwy Entrance to Ranch is located across from the roadside telephone at the 16.3 mile marker on San Marcos Pass Road.
Welcome
Rancho Alegre Dorm Rules
Location Instructions
Ground Rules
Schedule
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3. In the Beginning Introduction of Moderators
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In the Beginning
Introduction of Moderators
Introduction of Participants
Introduce yourself to the group
Tell them something about yourself
Scouting Experience
Previous Religious Awards
Church Experience
Other Activities and Achievements
Share what you have learned about each other.
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GOAL
To examine the individuals I have chosen to associate with, and explain the implications of these choices.
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Make a list of all the clubs and organizations to which you belong in the space provided.
School (Debate Club, Math Club, …)
Sports (Basketball, Soccer, …)
Scouts (Troop, Crew, OA …)
Church (Youth Group, Server, …)
Other (Band, YMCA, …)
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Pick 2 or 3 of these groups and share about each with your group.
What are your responsibilities as a member?
To the organization
To the group
To yourself personally
What impact has membership had on you?
How is membership granted?
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All of you belong to the BSA either as a Boy Scout or a Venturer.
Why did you choose to belong?
How was your membership granted?
As a group discuss
What are your responsibilities?
What effect does your membership have on you, the unit, and society?
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In addition to formal groups, you may have peer groups or friends.
How do you understand the term “peer group”?
What peer groups do you belong to?
Why did you decide to join each group, or did you decide?
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9. In the Beginning Peer groups or friends Discuss within your group
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In the Beginning
Peer groups or friends
Discuss within your group
What are the responsibilities of membership to the person, group, and society?
What effect does membership have on the person, group, and society?
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Various groups & organizations require different levels of mutual respect, trust, and friendship.
In our exploration of the aspects of membership, we have examined a variety of impacts on our lives.
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11. In the Beginning Discuss
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In the Beginning
Discuss
To what degree do the various levels of respect and friendship affect the organizations, groups, and friends that you associate with?
How these levels affect the function of the group, your responsibilities to group, and the affect of the groups in your life.
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12. In the Beginning Everyone here is a Catholic.
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In the Beginning
Everyone here is a Catholic.
As Catholics we have different degrees of involvement and commitment to the faith.
Do you feel like a member of the Catholic Church? Of your parish?
Why or why not – Discuss
Have you ever made a decision to be a member of the Church?
Where? Why?
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13. In the Beginning Catholic…- continued discussion
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In the Beginning
Catholic…- continued discussion
How is membership in the Church granted? In the Parish? Share
What is expected of a member in the Church?
How do you participate as a member?
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14. In the Beginning Catholic…- continued discussion
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In the Beginning
Catholic…- continued discussion
What benefits does membership in the Church have to the person, he church community and society?
How does membership affect your daily life as a person, the church community, and society?
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15. In the Beginning Catholic…- continued discussion
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In the Beginning
Catholic…- continued discussion
What are your concerns about the Church?
Do mutual respect, trust, and friendship affect your membership in the Church? How?
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Jot down what you have discovered or learned in this chapter, if you feel it would helpful for future reference in the program or Board of Review.
END OF CHAPTER 1
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GOAL
To explore what it means to be called by God through the Sacraments or Initiation, and how these calls continue in and affect my life.
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18. “You have a call?” God and You
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God and You
What image flashes through your mind when you hear the term
“You have a call?”
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Communication is the exchange of thoughts, ideas, feelings, and information. As human beings we have at our disposal various methods of Communication. They include, electronic, visual, oral, and physical methods
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Discuss
The varying forms of communication that you use with others? How and for what purpose?
The various forms of communication used by our society to communicate to/with you.
The various forms of communication used by the Church to communicate to/with you.
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21. God and You Forceful and obvious methods of communication
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Forceful and obvious methods of communication
Subtle methods of communication
Body language
Eye contact
God uses both forms to communicate with us.
The challenge is to recognize His communication or the call.
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In the OT Abraham’s God of Power and Might, the Creator, was viewed as a jealous and vengeful God. He protected and punished.
As one progresses through the OT the view of God expands from harsh to the more gentle God found in Isaiah.
Discuss this concept.
Identify 5 ways God communicated with His people.
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With the birth of Christ, NT reveals God as gentle, loving, and forgiving Father. Jesus becomes our brother and sacrificial victim.
“No greater love has a man to give his life for another.” (John 15:13)
Discuss
5 ways God communicates in the NT.
Does God communicate with His people today? If so, how?
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Today many hold God responsible for all our problems (floods, illness, terrorism, accidents)
We must be cautious as we recognize God’s action and call within events of our life and the world. He has the power and ability to communicate in dramatic ways.
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Many times events are outside the normal. We often disregard or, in ignorance, set into motion events that create these problems.
Are these things the work of God or are we simply harvesting the seeds we have sown?
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26. God and You God communicates today just as he did in the OT and NT.
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God communicates today just as he did in the OT and NT.
Signs and wonders
Inner voice or feelings
Other people
His Church
Signs such as a new born, volcano, sunrise/sunset, babbling brook, etc.
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As humans we struggle to hear this voice of God in our hearts.
Take some time to reflect on how you have experienced God’s communication in your lifetime.
Share this reflection.
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28. God and You God speaks to us Bible Reading Homilies Teachers
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God and You
God speaks to us
Bible Reading
Homilies
Teachers
Searching the Internet
Music, Books, Movies
Quiet Meditation
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29. God and You Effective communication requires
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Effective communication requires
Transmission of information
Reception of information
As communicators we need to be
Good listeners
Good talkers
As readers we need to think
What does the author mean?
What does it mean to me?
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30. God and You When reading the Bible we need to ask ourselves
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When reading the Bible we need to ask ourselves
What is God saying in this passage?
What is He saying to me personally, today?
What am I going to do about it?
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Jesus is both God and human. When He made major decisions he first wanted to talk to His Father by going off alone or to a deserted place
Read
Matthew 14:22-24; 26: 36-44
Luke 6:12-16, 9:18, 4:1-13
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Just like Jesus we need to create our own place to communicate with God.
“A place alone, free from distraction where we can reflect on ourselves and communicate with God.”
Deserted Place, Sacred Space, a Garden
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33. God and You Discuss Where is your personal desert, sacred space, etc.?
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God and You
Discuss
Where is your personal desert, sacred space, etc.?
When/why do you go there?
What kind of experience have you had with your desert, sacred space, etc.
Is there a real need for quiet time?
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34. God and You Most of us were baptized as infants.
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Most of us were baptized as infants.
Our first contact with God was through the Sacraments of Initiation
Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist
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35. God and You Baptism Discuss Began a formal relationship with God
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Baptism
Began a formal relationship with God
Anointing with oil as part of Baptism and Confirmation in which we are called to live as Christians in the world.
Discuss
What does anointing mean to you?
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Oils have been used as a means of anointing in many civilizations.
Find three different ways that ordinary oil was used by ancient civilizations. Share.
Discuss what the main uses of oil were.
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37. God and You These uses are passed down to us today:
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These uses are passed down to us today:
What are the new types of oil and uses for oil in the world today?
Of the ancient uses of oil, which have survived to this day?
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38. God and You Oil of Chrism - Read Exodus 29:4-7 Leviticus 8:1-12
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Oil of Chrism - Read
Exodus 29:4-7
Leviticus 8:1-12
1 Samuel 9:16
1 Samuel 10-1
1 Samuel 16-1
1 Samuel
1 Kings 1:39
1 Kings 19:15-16
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39. God and You Oil of Chrism – Discuss
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Oil of Chrism –
Discuss
the common thread of these passages.
the specific functions, offices or calls involved in the OT scripture uses of anointing.
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40. Christ = Messiah = Anointed
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Christ is Greek for the Hebrew word Messiah which means Anointed.
Christ = Messiah = Anointed
In Israel those consecrated were anointed. Kings, Priests, Prophets
Read three passages from the Catechism of the Catholic Church on Page 10 of your PPXII workbook.
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Discuss
How is the universal priesthood of the faithful expressed in the personal lives of people you know.
How is it expressed in the working or professional people you know?
How is it expressed in the church lives of people you know?
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We experience and carry out God’s universal call to us in three aspects of our lives:
Our life commitments
Our occupation
Our ministry
We will examine these aspects in our next three chapters.
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Jot down what you have God communicating to you. We have talked about God’s Call to us to be Christians and live out our universal call as priest, prophet, and king. What is the message you receive from God? Take time to reflect.
END OF CHAPTER 2
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GOAL
To examine and discover various “life states” to which God may be calling me.
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45. Life Choices Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Idol Worship
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Life Choices
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Idol Worship
The Beautiful People
The Glamorous Lifestyle
TV, Movies, Magazines
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Life Choices
Select someone, perhaps “rich and famous,” in whose shoes you would like to live. Share whom you selected and why.
What is it about this person’s lifestyle that you find attractive? What are you willing to do to attain this lifestyle? Discuss.
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Discuss with your group any drawbacks in the person’s lifestyle.
The way people live their personal lives is frequently called a “lifestyle” Defined as a manner or method of living life that has been established by authority, custom or consent. These manners or methods become models and examples for us to live by.
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Commitment: a major component of human existence that interfaces with our lifestyle.
We make many commitments
Commitment defined as an agreement or pledge that is made between you and another individual or group.
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49. Life Choices Discuss We make commitments every day.
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Life Choices
Discuss
We make commitments every day.
What are some you have made?
What do they entail?
Some commitments that we make dramatically shape our lives into specific lifestyles.
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Discuss
What kind of commitments has the “Rich & Famous” individual you selected made?
Of these lifestyle commitments, which can be considered responses to “Calls from God”?
What characteristics make a lifestyle a “Call from God”?
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All of us make commitments to relationships with others as social beings.
Make a list of your friends.
Identify your best friend.
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Life Choices
Discuss
Elements that are integral to the development of relationships
money, affirmation, prestige, friendship, etc.
What is it about your relationship with your best friend that moves that relationship above all of your other friends?
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The relationship we call friendship is the intertwining of five separate components
Camaraderie
Trust
Love
Respect
Affirmation
The level of intertwining is proportional to the degree of intensity or commitment within each component.
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If any one component is missing, we can no longer have an honest relationship.
While each component is separate and distinct, all must work together for true friendship.
They feed, nurture, and develop upon one another.
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55. Life Choices We have other relationships called acquaintances.
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We have other relationships called acquaintances.
Discuss: How does the relationship of acquaintances differ from the relationship of friends.
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In the secular world we use Lifestyle to define relationships.
In the context of God and the Church we use “life states”.
There are three types of commitment an individual is called to in the Church
Vowed
Promised
Committed
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Discuss
In my current life state and/or commitment what God is calling me to, and if not, what is it?
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Discuss
What levels of commitment are needed in dating, girl/boy friend, going steady, engagement, and marriage?
How are these commitments expressed both privately and socially?
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Life Choices
Discuss
Which of the five components of relationships is involved in
Dating
Girl/Boy Friend
Going Steady
Engagement
Marriage
What is the degree of intensity in each state?
How are these commitments expressed both privately and socially?
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Our attitudes toward relationships and commitments are key to discerning what life states God is calling us to.
Examine Table 1 on page 12.
Discuss
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61. Life Choices NEXT SESSION:
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Life Choices
NEXT SESSION:
Panel of people who have made these commitments.
Sample questions on page 13.
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62. Next Session Saturday, February 3 9 am to 4 pm Bishop Diego Center
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Next Session
Saturday, February 3
9 am to 4 pm
Bishop Diego Center
4032 Calle Real
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
At the foot of San Marcos Pass Road. Maps will be provided
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