Adult Education

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta regularly offers adult religious education programs that help adults and young adults expand their knowledge and understanding of Catholic teachings.  These programs help participants to grow in their faith by reflecting on how their faith impacts their daily lives ans sharing with others on their faith journey.

For fall 2008, Blessed Teresa of  Calcutta will offer an eight-week DVD-based program entitled The Virtues: Seven Habits of Champions. The presenter for the fall program is the very popular Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. Dr. D'Ambrosio is a gifted speaker and inspired theologian who earned his doctorate in historical theology from the Catholic University of America under the direction of Avery Cardinal Dulles.

In this new series Dr. D'Ambrosio offers a spirited eight-part meditation that focuses on the four cardinal virtues — Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude — and the three theological virtues — Faith, Hope, and Charity.

The Virtues: Seven Habits of Champions explains how God's inspiration for Christian living, contained in the Scriptures and made known through the Catechism of the Catholic Church and documents of the Catholic Church, is accessible to everyone and is exemplified for us by the lives of the saints. Through the practice of these seven habits or virtues, heroic virtue can be attained!

Participants gather in small groups to learn from Dr. D'Ambrosio, to reflect on his presentation, to share faith, to explore Catholic teaching on the virtues that are fundamental to Discipleship, and to apply this teaching to their daily lives. This eight-week DVD program challenges Catholic adults to respond to God's call to holiness. Weekly sessions are as follows:

        Week One: Virtue—The Power to Be Like Christ
        Week Two: The Cardinal Virtue of Prudence
        Week Three: The Cardinal Virtue of Justice
        Week Four: The Cardinal Virtue of Temperance
        Week Five: The Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude
        Week Six: The Theological Virtue of Faith
        Week Seven: The Theological Virtue of Hope
        Week Eight: The Theological Virtue of Charity 

For more information, or to register for this program, contact the Parish Office at 524-0500.