Agenda:

11:00am: Mass at St. Anne’s Catholic Church 440 E. Elliot Rd. Gilbert, 85234

1:00pm: Desert Monks Brewing Company 1094 S. Gilbert Rd. #101, Gilbert, AZ 85296

Announcements: 2025 Jubilee Year Pilgrimage at Our Lady of Knots Mt. Lemmon Friday Oct. 24-26

Ice Breaker: Who’s a particular saint whose life you could identify with and why? Or If your life was a movie which movie would it be like?

Discussion Topic: The Person in the Theology of the Body of Pope John Paul II

Sources: Man’s Desire for God Ch. 2, (Supplement: The Theology of the Body: Overview and Themes) (https://podcast.thomisticinstitute.org/the-theology-of-the-body-overview-and-themes-fr-thomas-petri-op/)

Prompts for discussion: The following are just to aid discussion…

1. Why are the body and the soul essential for understanding what a human person is? 
2. What are some ways in which the body expresses the soul of the person?
3. What happens when we divorce the body and the soul from each other? Are there any negative consequences that can occur as a result?
4. Is objective morality made up or is it discovered and how can we know it’s real?
5. What changed within our original parents after original sin?
6. What role does grace play in the conjugal union and why is it necessary?
7. Why is the image of God completed in procreation?

Next Meeting Discussion: TBD

3:00pm: End