Grade 8 - The Church Then and Now
Covering both first and second semester, this course is devoted to the study of God's faithful love as it is revealed by the Church founded by Jesus Christ. Its purpose is to help students grow in knowledge and love of the Church. It affords students the opportunity to build a relationship with Christ, self, and others. Together we explore the unique role of the individual in the Church and begin to unravel the divine call and purpose of each student.
Grade 9 - The Bible: The Living Word of God
Offered in the Fall of 2018, this course is designed to lead students towards a deeper understanding of Sacred Scripture and the history of salvation it reveals. Students learn to navigate the Bible and exegetical skills. They examine the relationship between and among Revelation, inspiration, and vocation. Why salvation history was necessary and the people in salvation history: the early leaders of Israel, the judges and kings, and the prophets, will be studied. The course explains why Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of salvation history and the Israelite's covenant relationship with God. The majority of the study focuses on the Old Testament, leading into a deeper study of Christology in the second semester.
Grade 9 - Jesus Christ as the Fulfillment of the Old Testament - New Testament Study
Offered in the Spring of 2019, this course leads students toward a deeper understanding of our needs for redemption and how Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise. We explore how, through His life, suffering, death, Resurrection, and Ascension, Jesus makes our redemption possible. The course continues with the foundation and spread of the Church. It uncovers the development of the Catholic Church in scripture. The course concludes by guiding students to appreciate and adopt Scripture as an exemplary and essential life-long guide on our faith journey.
Grade 10 - Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love
In the first semester, this course is intended to lead students towards a deeper understanding of God's Law revealed to us through reason and Revelation. The class explores Christ's life and teaching as the fulfillment of the Old Testament Law summarized in the Ten Commandments. The content of the course is informed by the moral law in the Old Testament, by Christ's moral teaching in teh Gospels, and by the moral teaching of the Catholic Church as it applies to what God has revealed about our contemporary moral questions. The New Law of Christ calls us to go beyond keeping moral minimums and to love God, neighbor, and self with all of our being. We can only do this empowered by God's grace. In the end, Christian morality is about responding to God's love by living in full communion with God and others.
Our stance towards Christian morality is that God is revealing the secret to happiness in this life and a path to discovering our best selves, living to our full potential, and experiencing fulfillment in this life. My purpose as a teacher is to help students understand and live this.
Grade 10 - The Church: Christ in the World Today
The 2019 Spring semester course leads students to a deeper understanding of the Church as the means to encounter the living Jesus. We explore the origin, the human and divine elements, and te ongoing mission of the Church. Additionally, students discover the Church's continued efforts to gather all into the People of God through the ecumenical movement and inter-religious dialogue. Each unit encourages students t reflect on their personal role in the Church and Christ's invitation to actively participate in and contribute to the life of the Church.
Grade 11 - The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ
Through the study of the liturgy and the Sacraments instituted by Christ and given to us through the Church, students are lead to a closer relationship with God and come to understand God's grace and plan for them better. During this first semester course, foundational concepts integral to an understanding of liturgy and Sacraments are explored. Once the foundation has been set, the symbols and rites of the Sacraments are followed by a more detailed look at the graced moment of each encounter with Christ. The importance of these encounters to our daily lives leads to a strengthening of our relationship with Him. This in turn leads to a desire to be then be sent out to share the love of Christ with others. Our goal is value our sacramental life, to know how to live it well, and to be bold enough to do it.
Grade 11 - The Paschal Mystery: Christ's Mission of Salvation
Juniors develop a deeper understanding of our need for redemption and of Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise of redemption in the Spring semester. The course explores how, through his suffering, death, Resurrection, and Ascension, Jesus makes our redemption possible. We also address the continual unfolding and experience of the Paschal Mystery in our lives and in the liturgy of the Church.
Grade 12 - Catholic Social Teaching: Christian Life in Society
This course offered during the Fall semester, deepens our understanding of Catholic social teachings. It starts by examining the foundations of these teachings in Scripture and in Tradition. Next, it highlights the tremendous growth in our application of social justice to current situations over the last century through papal documents and through the work of the Catholic Conference of Bishops. Later units explore specific social justice concerns such as poverty, hunger, war, economic justice, and environmental justice. The aim of the course is to provide a means for each student to hear and accept God's call to live justly in real and concrete ways and to challenge students to recognize and confront sinful social structures effectively.
Grade 12 - Vocations: Answering God's Call
Students close their senior year with a greater appreciation of God's call in the life of His people, the Church, and in each of our own personal lives. The course explores foundational concepts integral to an understanding of vocation as God's call and our response. Ultimately, all vocations are a response to God within a relationship to Jesus Christ, in the strength and love of the Holy Spirit.
Covering both first and second semester, this course is devoted to the study of God's faithful love as it is revealed by the Church founded by Jesus Christ. Its purpose is to help students grow in knowledge and love of the Church. It affords students the opportunity to build a relationship with Christ, self, and others. Together we explore the unique role of the individual in the Church and begin to unravel the divine call and purpose of each student.
Grade 9 - The Bible: The Living Word of God
Offered in the Fall of 2018, this course is designed to lead students towards a deeper understanding of Sacred Scripture and the history of salvation it reveals. Students learn to navigate the Bible and exegetical skills. They examine the relationship between and among Revelation, inspiration, and vocation. Why salvation history was necessary and the people in salvation history: the early leaders of Israel, the judges and kings, and the prophets, will be studied. The course explains why Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of salvation history and the Israelite's covenant relationship with God. The majority of the study focuses on the Old Testament, leading into a deeper study of Christology in the second semester.
Grade 9 - Jesus Christ as the Fulfillment of the Old Testament - New Testament Study
Offered in the Spring of 2019, this course leads students toward a deeper understanding of our needs for redemption and how Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise. We explore how, through His life, suffering, death, Resurrection, and Ascension, Jesus makes our redemption possible. The course continues with the foundation and spread of the Church. It uncovers the development of the Catholic Church in scripture. The course concludes by guiding students to appreciate and adopt Scripture as an exemplary and essential life-long guide on our faith journey.
Grade 10 - Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love
In the first semester, this course is intended to lead students towards a deeper understanding of God's Law revealed to us through reason and Revelation. The class explores Christ's life and teaching as the fulfillment of the Old Testament Law summarized in the Ten Commandments. The content of the course is informed by the moral law in the Old Testament, by Christ's moral teaching in teh Gospels, and by the moral teaching of the Catholic Church as it applies to what God has revealed about our contemporary moral questions. The New Law of Christ calls us to go beyond keeping moral minimums and to love God, neighbor, and self with all of our being. We can only do this empowered by God's grace. In the end, Christian morality is about responding to God's love by living in full communion with God and others.
Our stance towards Christian morality is that God is revealing the secret to happiness in this life and a path to discovering our best selves, living to our full potential, and experiencing fulfillment in this life. My purpose as a teacher is to help students understand and live this.
Grade 10 - The Church: Christ in the World Today
The 2019 Spring semester course leads students to a deeper understanding of the Church as the means to encounter the living Jesus. We explore the origin, the human and divine elements, and te ongoing mission of the Church. Additionally, students discover the Church's continued efforts to gather all into the People of God through the ecumenical movement and inter-religious dialogue. Each unit encourages students t reflect on their personal role in the Church and Christ's invitation to actively participate in and contribute to the life of the Church.
Grade 11 - The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ
Through the study of the liturgy and the Sacraments instituted by Christ and given to us through the Church, students are lead to a closer relationship with God and come to understand God's grace and plan for them better. During this first semester course, foundational concepts integral to an understanding of liturgy and Sacraments are explored. Once the foundation has been set, the symbols and rites of the Sacraments are followed by a more detailed look at the graced moment of each encounter with Christ. The importance of these encounters to our daily lives leads to a strengthening of our relationship with Him. This in turn leads to a desire to be then be sent out to share the love of Christ with others. Our goal is value our sacramental life, to know how to live it well, and to be bold enough to do it.
Grade 11 - The Paschal Mystery: Christ's Mission of Salvation
Juniors develop a deeper understanding of our need for redemption and of Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise of redemption in the Spring semester. The course explores how, through his suffering, death, Resurrection, and Ascension, Jesus makes our redemption possible. We also address the continual unfolding and experience of the Paschal Mystery in our lives and in the liturgy of the Church.
Grade 12 - Catholic Social Teaching: Christian Life in Society
This course offered during the Fall semester, deepens our understanding of Catholic social teachings. It starts by examining the foundations of these teachings in Scripture and in Tradition. Next, it highlights the tremendous growth in our application of social justice to current situations over the last century through papal documents and through the work of the Catholic Conference of Bishops. Later units explore specific social justice concerns such as poverty, hunger, war, economic justice, and environmental justice. The aim of the course is to provide a means for each student to hear and accept God's call to live justly in real and concrete ways and to challenge students to recognize and confront sinful social structures effectively.
Grade 12 - Vocations: Answering God's Call
Students close their senior year with a greater appreciation of God's call in the life of His people, the Church, and in each of our own personal lives. The course explores foundational concepts integral to an understanding of vocation as God's call and our response. Ultimately, all vocations are a response to God within a relationship to Jesus Christ, in the strength and love of the Holy Spirit.