Professional Development Webinar Recordings

Join Austin Habash, founder of Think Catholic and host of the Summa in a Year podcast, for a live webinar exploring one of the most practical and overlooked areas of St. Thomas Aquinas’s thought: the human emotions. In this session, Austin will walk you through: • What the emotions are — how St. Thomas categorizes them and why they matter. • What causes them — the inner movements of desire, fear, anger, joy, and more. • How to remedy them — the path Aquinas gives us for ordering our passions toward virtue and peace. This webinar will not only give you a clearer understanding of your own interior life and practical tools for spiritual growth, but it will also equip parish leaders with wisdom to better accompany parishioners who are struggling with emotional challenges, seeking healing, or striving to grow in virtue. Come discover how the insights of a 13th-century Dominican can transform the way you live, love, and lead today.

Everyone agrees that our young people need education in chastity, but few seem to know how to go about imparting that essential information to them. In Catechetical Formation for Chaste Living (USCCB, 2008), the US Bishops define chastity as the virtue that “directs our sexuality toward authentic love and away from using persons as objects for sexual pleasure” and offer a framework that will help young people to develop that virtue. In this webinar, Sister Kieran Sawyer will offer an approach to sexuality education that she believes corresponds to the core content of the Chaste Living document. Based on the acronym LIFE (love, infatuation, friendship, and exploitation), her approach has been used successfully with teens for many decades.

The young people in our schools and parishes are increasingly citizens of a virtual world where they carry out many traditionally “physical” activities, including living out their faith! Other Christian communities are experimenting with “online church.” What is an "online church" and is it an option for Catholics? How does the "digital continent" influence the way we prepare young people and catechumens to receive the sacraments?This webinar will explore these questions and offer some avenues for appropriate use of digital technologies in living our faith.Jonathan F. Sullivan is the director of catechetical services for the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. He blogs on evangelization and catechesis at www.JonathanFSullivan.com.Presentations Slides and NotesCheck out Jonathan's blog for a complete list of notes and links from the presentation.He has also been kind enough to share his presentation on Slideshare:Where Two or Three are Texting: Incarnation & Sacrament in a Virtual World from Jonathan Sullivan