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CATHERINE PART I LESSON The Study Program for CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players is the best way to immerse yourself fully into these holy men and women. Whether you use it for personal formation or to host a complete formation program for your parish or group, you’ll go deeper into the lives of these extraordinary people with experts who have written each lesson commentary under the direction and approval of Bishop Barron. Volume I St. Francis of Assisi: Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, Franciscan priest and preacher to the papal household St. Thomas Aquinas: Dr. Matthew Levering, renowned Catholic theologian and Thomistic scholar St. Catherine of Siena: Fr. Paul Murray, O.P., Dominican preacher and spiritual master Bl. John Henry Newman: Fr. Ian Ker, world’s leading Newman scholar G.K. Chesterton: Dale Ahlquist, founding president of the American Chesterton Society Michelangelo: Dr. Anthony Esolen, professor of Renaissance English Literature at Providence College Get Pivotal Players, VolUME I Volume II is being released in sets of two Pivotal Players each year. The study guide is written for these two Players and the program can be hosted in five sessions. Volume II St. Augustine and St. Benedict: Chad C. Pecknold and Abbott Jeremy Driscoll Fulton J. Sheen and Flannery O’Connor Dr. Mark Zia and Lorraine Murray BartolomÉ de Las Casas and St. Ignatius Get PIVOTAL PLAYERS, Volume II The video-based study program can be experienced individually or in a group. Each Study Guide lesson provides details about the Pivotal Player’s life and contributions to the culture. In addition, you’ll find Questions for Understanding" that support the teaching in the video and reference Scripture verses and sections from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You’ll also find several Questions for Application" in each lesson to help you connect the material to your own life and experience. For group study, you’ll find a foundational plan to present the Volume I program in 13 sessions, each 90 minutes long or the intensive plan to present the Volume I program in 7 sessions, each 2 ½ hours long. For each set of Volume II Players , you can present the study in 5 sessions, each 90 minutes long . The first session covers a general orientation, followed by two sessions on each Pivotal Player . Each session includes video viewing (25-30 minutes) and small group discussion of the Study Guide questions (60 minutes). The Leader’s Kit provides everything you need to host the Pivotal Players Study Program. We recommend that each parish or group purchase one Leader’s Kit to get started and then a separate Leader’s Guide for each small group facilitator. In addition, each participant in the group needs their own Study Guide, which can be purchased in bulk with a volume discount before your program begins. Leaders can also register for a free training webinar which teaches the best ways to run an effective Pivotal Players study group. Register for Free webinar Volume I Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 St. Francis of Assisi: The Reformer (Part I and II) Is there a more winsome and beguiling figure in the entire history of the Catholic Church than Francis of Assisi? Even for non-believers, Francis seems to sum up what is best in the Christian tradition, and it would be difficult to find anyone—even the most ardent of atheists—who would stand against him. Il Poverello, the little poor man—simple, humble, close to nature, deeply in love with God—continues to sing across the ages to our own cynical time. St. Thomas Aquinas: The Theologian (Part I and II) Thomas Aquinas’ contribution to the Church and to Western culture in general has been so massive that it is exceedingly difficult to get a grip on him. He was a philosopher, a scientist, a scripture commentator, a theologian, a mystic, and in all things, a saint. It is this last description that is, at the same time, the most overlooked and the most illuminating. When one interprets Aquinas merely as a rationalist philosopher, one misses the point of everything he wrote, for Thomas was a saint, deeply in love with Jesus Christ. He was a spiritual master, and his writings were designed to lead people on the road to Christ. St. Catherine of Siena: The Mystic (Part I & II) Catarina Benincasa, known to the world as Catherine of Siena, is one of the strangest and most intriguing of the church’s saints. An uneducated woman from an ordinary family, she became, in the course of a very short life, an...