This course focuses on developing skills that are essential to deacons in the pastoral setting of pre-marriage counseling and preparation: the ability to assess and summarize various information to the sacramental nature of marriage, and the capacity to develop a pastoral care approach to the couple’s vision of the wedding. Both challenges require deacons to…
PA920EE Marriage and Family Upon completion of this course, the Deacon will be able to: Assist parishioners in pastoral needs of their marriages and families Using principles drawn from the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage and family, assist parishioners in their growth and healing in marital and family relationships. Become familiar and comfortable with referring…
Designed for deacons, lay ministers and volunteers who will be involved in planning and implementing faith formation for all ages and anyone interested in learning more about emerging models of catechesis. The course will provide a survey of emerging models and approaches to faith formation. The reading assignments and presentations will point to texts, journals,…
This course provides parish administrators and those preparing for this function with a comprehensive and practical overview of the canonical, administrative, legal, and financial issues that may be encountered. It provides a variety of relevant scenarios likely to present themselves to an administrator and does so in a practical context. Some of the specific topics…
This course is designed to allow the participant to explore the many facets of a person who is grieving the loss of someone close to them. Completion of this course will allow the participant to identify with those who bereave and allow the participant to experience a methodology of counseling that will be healing and…
The course leads the student on a spiritual journey of intimacy with God that can bring healing to the minister and those who are cared for. The journey of this course involves both the head and heart. The course focuses on the theological and Biblical background and some of the basic ways to pray and…
This course has been developed specifically to address the canon law topics which most frequently arise in the ministry of deacons, based on numerous requests from officers and members of the National Association of Diaconate Directors, headquartered here at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus Ohio. Canon Law plays an important part in every element…
This course begins with a quick review of the basics of homiletics as described in contemporary magisterial teaching. The course will then quickly move in the practical dimensions of preparing homilies through a critical and prayerful reading of the scriptures associated with the various seasons of the Liturgical Year, as well as using the Liturgical…
PA620CE Introduction to Homiletics and Exegesis Course Format A twelve-week course consisting of on-line studies, on-line collaboration, weekly blog involvement. Course Description This course provides students with the foundations for Catholic preaching. As a general introduction, we will examine contemporary magisterial teaching on homiletics while also affording students the opportunity to prepare homilies which will…
Introduction to Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Care This course will explore the principles of Pastoral Theology and their application through the ministry of pastoral care. Most people enter ministry with the desire to serve others and to faithfully accompany them in both the joys and challenges of life. This course will help students prepare for…