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Week I - Happiness (Video Recording Coming Soon)
Session I: Deep in the human heart is a profound longing for happiness. But what is happiness and why do we long for it? Can we attain happiness?
Session II: Why are so many people seemingly unhappy? Is there a path to happiness? Is there an ultimate happiness?
Week II - The Virtuous Life is the Happy Life (Oct 25th)
Session I: The virtuous life is the happy life. Practicing the virtues is the path to happiness. What, then, are the virtues and how do they lead to happiness?
Session II: In our Catholic Christian faith, the virtues lead to ultimate and everlasting happiness. The truly virtuous Catholic is a holy Catholic, a saint. The saints are the happiness of all people. St. Peter wrote, “Just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy” (1 Pet 1:16). "For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge" (2 Peter 1:5).
Week III - Grace & Supernatural Happiness (Nov 22nd) Week IV - Prayer: The Pursuit of Happiness (Jan 31st) Week V - Lenten Presentation: Journey Into the Great Fast: The Path of Four Saints (Feb 14th) Week VI - Lenten Presentation: The Four Last Things (Mar 28th) Week VII - Holy Pascha & Happiness (Apr 25th) Week VIII - Personal Relationship with the Tri-Personal God - Summit of Christian Life and Happiness (May 16th)