Women’s Bible Study

Welcome to the St. Agnes Women’s Bible Study. We will meet each Thursday beginning April 16, 2009 through June 11, 2009, in Thomas Patrick Hall at 9am until 11am. Childcare is available. If you have any questions please contact Heidi O’Malley.

Join us in this Year of St. Paul as we study First Corinthians: The Church and the Christian Community. Our study includes thought-provoking questions about St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians and related portions of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Comprehensive Study Set Responses provide answers and further commentary on the questions as well as a substantive review of each lesson. Each lesson will be followed by a 30 minute talk given by Dr. Tim Gray on DVD.

The conflicts of the early Christians in Corinth were in many ways similar to our struggles today as Christians. With divisions, immorality, persecution, and other trials of the faithful, the message of St. Paul to the Corinthians is a much-needed message for our own times. First Corinthians: The Church and the Christian Community explores the key elements that the apostle Paul introduced to a new and growing Church. St. Paul taught the Corinthians about the nature of grace and the Church as the Body of Christ. In addition, he introduced the Corinthian Christians to the most powerful gift of all, the Eucharist.

Your Bible study group will:

• Learn the importance of Christian unity in relation to the Church as the Body of Christ.
• Explore St. Paul’s strategy for successful evangelization.
• See how to live a Christian life in the midst of a pagan culture.
• Discover why St. Paul sees the Church as the Body of Christ.
• Learn how St. Paul’s letter proves that the sacrifice of Christ is truly made present in the Eucharist.
• Gain a new vision for seeing the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit.