The Catechetical Corner: 

           Handing On and Defending the Faith

            The Catechetical Corner: Handing on and Defending the Faith is a new series produced and made available by the Office of Catechetics in collaboration with the Office of Communications to provide ongoing adult formation for Catholics in the Diocese of Lafayette.
             The video series is designed to empower them to effectively explain and pass on the faith to children, family, friends, colleagues, and those they encounter in their daily lives. Contributions to the Bishop Services Appeal provide the funding necessary to make these programs available on our social media outlets. Thanks to all of you for your generous donations to the BSA.

Synopsis of Episodes 77 & 78  
(Theology of the Body For Men - Authentic Catholic Masculinity - Featuring Director of Catechesis Chad Judice)         

St. Thomas Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, mystic, and one of the most prolific minds in the history of mankind defined effeminacy as a reluctance to suffer due to attachment to pleasure. Men, especially Christians, have been so emasculated by the current culture that they have forgotten who God intended them to be and abandoned their duty to be the spiritual leader of the home.
Expending endless energy on fleeting temporal pleasure and avoiding the hard work necessary to ensure the best eternal outcome for themselves, their spouse, and their children. In these two episodes, the Director of Catechetics for the Diocese of Lafayette, Chad Judice, shares an overview of Theology of the Body for men and how coming to understand authentic Catholic masculinity gives one the tools, strength, and fortitude to lead his family by living in the world and intentionally refusing to be of it. 
  

     

Synopsis of Episode 79 
( The Catechism of the Catholic Church: Moral Life in Christ - Part 1 - Featuring  Father  Clinton Sensat)
                   In 1992 under the Pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II the Vatican through a special commission promulgated much-needed comprehensive teaching of all Catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals that Catholics are bound to accept and conform our lives in order to accept the gift of eternal salvation. 
It is an official text of the Church’s Magisterium, which authoritatively gathers in a precise form all the fundamental salvific truths which express the faith common to the People of God and has been an indispensable reference for handing on the faith by catechists and religion teachers from one generation to the next. In these four episodes Father Clinton Sensat, priest of the Diocese of Lafayette, will focus on the third and fourth pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Moral Life in Christ and Christian Prayer.