Printed Leader Guide - Catholic Mysticism & the Beautiful Life of Grace, Revised & Expanded
This is the printed, physical edition of the Leader Guide for the dynamic Science of Sainthood video series titled Catholic Mysticism & the Beautiful Life of Grace, Revised & Expanded, taught by Matthew Leonard.
This Leader Guide follows the exact same format as the participant workbook, but it contains extra information only intended only for the leader.
These extra sections include:
Opening & Closing Prayer Scripts – These are optional scripts you can use to open the group in prayer. There are additional prayers listed in the back of both this leader guide and the participant workbooks.
Leader Notes – Additional information to help the leader that isn’t necessarily to be communicated to group participants.
Leader Scripts – Suggested text used by the leader to introduce various sections of the study and provide instructions for participants.
Answers – There are answers to each Review Question below each question.
In addition, each Workbook and Leader Guide contains:
For Further Reflection After the guided audio meditation there is a written meditation titled “For Further Reflection”. When and how you use it is totally optional. This section is provided to give some extra material related to the lesson topic upon which people can reflect either in class or in-between group sessions.
For Further Reading At the end of every lesson there is a section titled “For Further Reading” that is designed to show participants where they can go to explore the topic of the lesson more deeply.
Course Description
You may not be a mystic, but every Catholic is called to the mystical life. The mystical life is the hidden life. It's the interior process of becoming more and more like Christ, of being transformed by Him.
And this process culminates in something most Catholics have never been taught, something beyond our wildest dreams - divinization - a "participation in the divine nature" of God (2 Peter 1:4). Echoing Scripture, the Catechism quotes St. Athanasius who declares, "we become communicants in the divine nature. . . . For this reason, those in whom the Spirit dwells are divinized" (CCC 1988).
But what does that look like and how does it happen? That's what this series is all about. It first identifies the mystical life and then clearly explains how all the ins-and-outs of the life of grace work to make it happen.
Catholic Mysticism & the Beautiful Life of Grace, Revised & Expanded will revolutionize your entire view of the spiritual life.
"Whenever we complete a video .. we just look at each other with utter amazement and say ..WOW"
"I just cant say enough...This is not something we have been able to get at any other bible studies or at our church."
Number of Lessons - 8 | Lesson Length - 20 Minutes
Lesson Titles:
Lesson One - What is the Mystical Life? Lesson Two - The Importance of Station in Life Lesson Three - How Divine Life Happens Lesson Four - The Incredible Beauty of Grace Lesson Five - In the Beginning - Understanding Sanctifying Grace Lesson Six - The Fall From Grace Lesson Seven - The Helping Hand of Actual Grace Lesson Eight - The Mystical Movements of the Human Soul
