Catholic Community Bible Study

1 Corinthians 11:29-31 We will wrap up Chapter 11 with a deep dive into St. Paul's warning that the Corinthians should NOT receive the Eucharist unworthily. What is HIS context? What does the Church now teach about this? And if you are like me, you may have struggled with this a wee bit. How is anyone worthy? Isn't the Eucharist meant to feed us God's Grace? I'll share a very personal spiritual ba...

1 Corinthians Episode 11 11:25-29 We left off with Jesus saying THIS IS MY BODY and now THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD. We will talk about the New Covenant and New Testament, the Memorial and Anamnesis, we will dig deeper into the Real Presence of Jesus in Holy Communion, talk about the root of sacrifice and to cut a covenant, and we’ll end with the words of Jesus judging us for receiving unworth...

1 Corinthians 11:17-24 For those of you who believe in the Real Presence of the Eucharist, you do not want to miss this episode! We will not get through very many verses today as we take a deep dive into Paul's words during the institution of the Lord's Supper. First we will look at the very first church gatherings: why was it on Sunday? Who were the presiders, who hosted, what did it look like? W...

1 Corinthians 11:2-16 We’ll start off talking about the oral and written Traditions of Christianity, and a defense of the Catholic understanding of Sacred Tradition vs. the traditions of Men. Then we’ll follow Paul as he addresses what men and women are WEARING during public worship: veiling and what it meant then and what it means today, and we’llvgo into a deep dive on the dignity of women. This...

Chapter 10 We’ll follow Paul through one of the best OT Bible Studies EVER as he demonstrates for us the way Christians should read the OT, including a cool Jewish legend about the rock in the desert. Then he’ll circle back around to the issue of eating animal offerings and worshipping false gods, and begin to link it with Christian worship—the Body and Blood of Jesus—Holy Communion!

1 Corinthians 7:12-9:27 We’ll continue with Chapter 7 and the detailed answer Paul gives to the questions about marriage, then we’ll see St. Paul answering questions about food that has been offered to Pagan Gods, he shares his technique of denying himself of things for the benefit of the weaker brothers and sisters to avoid scandal, he AGAIN defends himself, and shares that he is compelled to sha...

1 Corinthians 6:12-7:11 Paul has been talking about sins in the Corinthian community, and being very clear that Christians must not allow sin—he charges them to judge those INSIDE but not those OUTSIDE. Today we will unpack that in great detail: Are we supposed to Judge? If so HOW??? We will also look at how he answers many questions the Corinthians are asking about marriage…

1 Corinthians 5:6 – 6:11 Physical description of St. Paul; Paul Continues with the topic of going to civil courts, which leads to a discussion how sin is like leaven in bread. What does he mean when he says we will judge the world and judge the angels? Then Paul gives one of his sin lists, and we’ll dive into the context and especially how certain sins especially harm the Temple of God.

1 CORINTHIANS Chapter 4:1-5:5 Today we will look at how we are each a temple of the Holy Spirit, there is no room for pride, being fools for Christ! We will also address “Call no man Father” and spend some time exploring the major moral crisis that needs a resolution, and Paul’s first major melt down ---whoah we get a glimpse of his temper! And to top it off, are Christians allowed to JUDGE other...

1 Corinthians 2:1—3:15 Paul continues talking about the cross, then the power of the Holy Spirit, then God’s wisdom rather than human wisdom, then being immature Christians who can’t handle solid food, then he mixes some farming metaphors with building metaphors!!

1 Corinthians 1:10-31 Division, cliques, parties, dissent in Corinth: those are the reasons Paul writes this letter. He emphasized UNITY in Christ and especially unity UNDER THE CROSS of Christ Jesus. We will look at the Sacrament of Baptism and the reality of a splintered Christianity, and a mind blowing reflection on the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:1-9. Today we’ll introduce St Paul and some of his credentials, look at the sin city of Corinth, focus in on the words APOSTLE and CHURCH and FELLOWSHIP, as well as some basic Christology—theology to understand Jesus Christ. We will also be unapologetically CATHOLIC as we unpack how Christ declares us righteous and justified.

JUDITH 11:1-13:20 We continue with Judith’s deception—or is it really? Holofernes throws a huge banquet, and then loses his head over this woman’s beauty! We’ll look at the morality of this story and dig a little deeper…

Judith Chapter 8:21-10:23 We’ll see Judith’s plan, her link to Simeon, a look at the Lost ten Tribes of Israel, Judith's amazing prayer, her surrender to Holofernes, and the set up for the final confrontation…

JUDITH Chapter 8:4-8:20 Now, halfway through the story, we are finally introduced to the title character! Judith, the Lady Jew. We’ll look at the importance of the tent, her maid-servant, listening to the Lord, testing the Lord, wisdom of the Lord --- This is the heart of the book with prayer and building tensions…

Read Judith 5:1 – 8:3 We’ll meet the fascinating character Achior, listen to HIS telling of the Jewish story, watch the tension build to the great battle, watch as Bethulia gets completely surrounded by the enemy, and then we meet the awesome Judith

Judith 2:4 – 4:15 Who is the author? We’ll read through the war set up for the story, we’ll look a little more into the history and genre, meet the penultimate bad guy Holofernes, find the city of Bethulia, and introduce Achior…

Judith Chapter 1:1-2:3 An introduction overview, setting the stage, an explanation of the proto and deutero-canon and apocrypha, characters and locations, debates about the genre and the historical accuracy, and I’ll explain the viewpoint I’ll take as we read through this gem of a book. If you want to jump to the 30 minute mark on the Episode, you can hear the direction we'll be taking with Judith...

Chapters 9:11- 11:1. Look at the revenge of the Jews, we wrestle with the morality of that counter-offensive, we’ll wrap up the story, explore the date this book may have been written, and see the brilliant structure of the Book of Esther

Esther Chapters 6:11-9:10 with Greek Additional Chapter 16 (or E) Haman’s plot starts to unravel, The 2nd Banquet with the King and Haman, the tables get turned, the edict sent out by Xerxes, and a really important look at how this era shaped Judaism for the time of Jesus

Episode 5 Additional Greek Chapters 13:8 - 15:16 (or C: 1-through D:16) and 5:1-6:10 We’ll define and explore intercessory prayer; look at Mordecai’s prayer, Esther’s prayer, and watch as the drama builds and God guides it all to a great climactic moment!

ESTHER EPISODE 4 Additional Chapter 13 (or B) + Chapters 3:14 – 4:-17 This time we will look at an additional Greek chapter: the King’s letter, along with the most famous words from this book in Chapter 4 as Mordecai tries to convince Esther to help their people

Esther Chapters 2:16-3:13 We'll walk through the Persian Beauty Pageant and see how Esther fares, we’ll explore God’s providence, some typology, the connection with Haman to long time enemies of the Jews, the Jewish Feast of Purim, and dig deep into the historical hatred of the Jews…

CHAPTER 1:10-2:15 Welcome back, friends—in this episode we will start to see God’s hidden hand moving events along, we’ll see what happens to Queen Vashti, see the Persian’s love of laws in action, and we’ll be introduced to the title character Esther…

EPILOGUE ADDITIONAL CHAPTER A or CHAPTERS 11 & 12 And ESTHER 1:1-9 We start off with this MOST controversial Book of Esther talking about the very different versions published among Christian Bibles, we’ll look at the controversies, we’ll introduce the main characters, introduce the Jewish holiday of Purim, and kick off the setting of the story with the grand party thrown by the King of Persia