This FREE course will introduce you to the areas of spiritual growth that we all need to nurture if we want to deepen our relationship with Jesus. This course will get you started with the bare basics of making progress in each of these areas with simple, easy to implement strategies for spiritual growth.

This course takes you deeper into the "Make Time for What Matters" Behavioral Template, focusing on the goals and habits that help us to grow in our faith.

This course explores the Church's moral teaching from the perspective of following God's loving plan for your life so you can become the masterpiece that God created you to be. You will gain not only greater knowledge of the Church's moral teaching, but practical strategies for applying moral principles and the process of deep conversion to your life. Morality is more about BECOMING than it is about DOING. Become God's masterpiece!

This course supplements Maria Gracia's "Happy for Life" program. It offers a deeper understanding of happiness and organizes Maria's program into challenges.

The spiritual masters often call prudence the "mother of all virtue" (humility also sports this title). The power of prudence is often lost on us today, yet in the modern world of instant gratification throwaway lifestyles, we need it more than ever. This course will show you how to use this powerful virtue to control much of the chaos in your life so you can focus on what is truly important.

This course follows the life of Jesus by reflecting on the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

Welcome to “The Two Are One” an introduction to the Theology of the Body. This is part 2 of the Introduction to the Theology of the Body series. In this course, we’re going to dive more deeply into our vocation to love. Specifically, we’re going to be talking about marriage in this course. But this course isn’t just for married couples. Marriage is the exemplar of our vocation to love as men and women. By exploring marriage, we get a clearer vision of how we are called to love with Christlike love.

This course follows the life of Jesus by reflecting on the Luminous Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

The spiritual masters often call prudence the "mother of all virtue" (humility also sports this title). The power of prudence is often lost on us today, yet in the modern world of instant gratification throwaway lifestyles, we need it more than ever. This course will show you how to use this powerful virtue to control much of the chaos in your life so you can focus on what is truly important.

This course is part 1 of a 4-part tour of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is offered as a stand-alone course or as part of the Novitiate Membership.

This course takes a unique look at salvation history, showing how God took humanity through the steps of building relationship so we could relate to Him in a way that made sense to us as human beings. This course uses the book Walking With God by Tim Gray and Jeff Cavins as a guiding text (purchase of this book is highly recommended). However, the concept of relationship building is unique to the video course. This course makes a great follow-up to Jeff Cavins' Great Adventure Bible Timeline program, which is available for purchase or rental in the Bookstore.

This course is based on a retreat given by Fr Matt Blake, OCD. The videos are available on YouTube (you can find the video for part 1 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C57jd9xvf4). In addition to Fr. Blake's videos this course offers illustrative text, notes and graphics as well as a reflection guide.

How familiar are you with the Early Church Fathers? This course is designed for beginners who know very little (or nothing) about this important group of early saints.

• Learn what qualifies someone to be called an "Early Church Father" (and what this term really means)
• Learn why we honor this group of saints just because they lived in the first few centuries of the Church (it's not just because we like "old" things)
• Learn what "Church approval" really means (it's probably not what you think)
• Learn why it is important that the Early Church Fathers be orthodox, meaning that they teach correct doctrine (and why their orthodoxy is important for your relationship with Jesus)
• Discover why we have an official title for "Early Church Fathers" but not "Early Church Mothers" (no, it's not because the Church is sexist)
• Learn whey it is important for us to know about the Early Church Fathers (why should you come to know them)

How familiar are you with the Early Church Fathers? This course will introduce you to some of these amazing saints of the early Church!

• Learn some Church history so you understand the historical context each of the Fathers lived in (don't worry, this history lesson will be quick and painless)
• Get to know Fathers from each of four eras of Church history. Learn how they bravely faced persecution, heresy and other challenges in the Church (and what they can teach us about facing similar situations today)
• Develop a real relationship with the Early Church Fathers you decide to add to your spiritual team (and learn how to build your spiritual team in the first place)

What can the Early Church Fathers teach us about building a healthy spiritual life?

TONS!

The teaching and example of the Early Church Fathers can help us to build our spiritual life on a firm foundation.

In this course you'll learn

• How the Early Church Fathers understood a "personal relationship with Jesus" (and what this phrase can not mean)
• Why the Holy Eucharist is so central not only to our faith but to your spirituality as well (hint: it has a lot to do with what you'll learn about having a personal relationship with Jesus)!
• What role Sacred Scripture should have in our spiritual lives (and how to read the Bible most effectively)
• Why it's so important to be united to the Church as the Body of Christ and the Family of God (you may never see your bishop in the same way again)
• How we can navigate a culture that hates Christianity and lulls us in to a lax, lazy lukewarm faith at the same time.

Following ancient errors, we sometimes assume that our bodies are less important than our spiritual souls. There is a popular cultural vision that when we die we leave our bodies behind, our spirits sprout wings and a halo and we live among the clouds strumming our harps. But this isn't what our faith teaches us.

"I believe in the resurrection of the body." The Creed recalls for us the teachings of Jesus about the resurrection of the body. Human beings are created as an integration of body and spirit. That means that our bodies and our spirits both participate in our sin, and in our redemption.

So what does this mean for our spirituality? What does it mean for our relationship with God?

"You Are Not An Angel - Why God Gave You a Body" explores the purpose for the human body and the role it plays in our walk with Jesus. In this course you'll learn:

• What it means to be created in the Image and Likeness of God (and what it doesn't mean).
• The purpose of our existence (yes we do know why we're here).
• The role our bodies play as Images of God and in the purpose for our existence (turns out, really important ones).
• What the body is not for and why the moral teaching has so much to say about how to use the body properly.
• What love is (and why you have to learn Greek to fully understand it).
• What sexuality is (it's more than you think it is) and why it is so important.
• How to use our bodies to give God glory!

Teaching the Way of Love is a program for Catholic parents. Its goal is to empower parents to embrace their role as the primary educators of their children.

This course describes the goals of Catholic parenting, and what mindsets help Catholic parents succeed in their quest to lead their children to the love of God.

As Catholic parents, we want to guide our children to become adults according to God's plan. As your child matures from childhood to adulthood through the process of puberty, it can be tempting to focus exclusively on his or her physical maturity. But our job as parents is to help our children mature in all areas of life: the personal, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions as well as the physical. This course will guide you through each of these dimensions, show you God's plan for each, and share practical strategies for helping your child mature in each area.

Build a more intimate relationship with the saints by engaging them in your "Spiritual Project"! This course will teach you how to build deep, meaningful relationships with our brothers and sisters in the Church Triumphant by choosing the right saints to have a relationship with, and then engaging the saints in more intimate, meaningful ways.

As a good parent, you want what's best for your children. As a good Catholic parent, you know that what's best for them - and for you - is to fulfill your vocation to lead them to the Family of God through the love of your own family. But parenting takes more than goals and wishes. It also takes certain skills and virtues. This course will teach you some of the skills and virtues necessary to lead your children to truth, goodness, and beauty - and through them to God.

One of the tasks that make Catholic parents most nervous is talking to their children about sex, especially in our sex-saturated culture that has rejected God's plan. Having "The Talk" with your son or daughter is no longer enough. Parents need to have multiple conversations explaining God's plan for sexuality and how to live it out. But the good news is that God's plan is beautiful. It's not the easy way, but it's far more attractive than what the world offers. This course will prepare you to have those conversations, whether your son or daughter is just entering puberty or is a young adult.

The Embrace Parenthood series from Teaching the Way of Love is our program for Catholic parents that teaches some of the foundational principles of good Catholic parenting. It helps parents nurture faith and virtue within their families.

If you have gone through this program and are ready to dig more deeply, this recorded webinar series is for you. Alice and I focused on 7 of the 10 segments for an entire hour each.

If you haven't been through the basic program yet, you can still get a lot out of this webinar series. However, if you'd like the full experience, we recommend you begin with the Embrace Parenthood program by clicking here.

In this spiritual project, you'll spend some time thinking and praying about what gifts God has given you, what experience He has shaped you with, and how He might be calling you to serve the Kingdom of God.

In this spiritual project, we are working in the Chapel of our Inner Abbey. We're exploring how to live the Seven Sacraments in our daily spirituality. In this project we'll cover:

• Why the Sacraments are called the "Fountains of Grace"
• What grace really is (it's more than you think).
• How Jesus gives us the grace of each Sacrament through the Sacramental Sign
• How each Sacrament calls us to respond to the grace that it gives.
• How each Sacrament calls us to deepen our relationship with God by being true to the Sacramental oath.

In this spiritual project, we'll consider our final judgment, why we should look forward to it with hope rather than dread, and how to prepare ourselves to meet it.

Apologetics is the teaching of why we believe what we believe as Catholics. While this discipline plays a key role in true ecumenical dialogue, it is also valuable for Catholics who want to enter more deeply into the Mystery of the Faith. This series will introduce you to the concept of Apologetics, provide a template for apologetic thought, and then apply that template to they question, "Did Christ intend to establish a Church?"

The Foundations of the Theology of the Body online course series presents the teachings of Pope John Paul II on the theological significance of the human body in a way that is closely tied to Sacred Scripture, intellectually stimulating, and practically applicable to your life. Even though much of this program centers on marriage, the principles drawn from the Theology of the Body can be applied to all human relationships. If you desire closer, more intimate, and less stressed relationships in your life, it's important to learn God's plan for human relationship, the reasons they have gone astray, and how we can not only recover but glorify them through the grace of Jesus Christ.

This series includes three courses (also available separately):

Why Did God Give You a Body?

The Two Are One

The Genius of Sex