Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Understanding and Appreciating Our Differences
Added to this is the notion that when God speaks to us, we generally experience it as a surprise, as something unexpected, and as something that does not easily square with our normal expectations as to how God should work and how we should learn. There’s a reason for this.
Simply put, when we think we are hearing God’s voice in what’s familiar, comfortable, and secure, the temptation is always to reshape the message according to our own image and likeness, and so God often comes to us through the unfamiliar.
What’s familiar is comfortable and offers us security; but, as we know, real transformative growth mostly happens when, like the aged Sarah and Abraham, we are forced to set off to a place that’s foreign and frightening and that strips us of all that is comfortable and secure. Set off, God told Sarah and Abraham, to a land where you don’t know where you’re going. Real growth happens, and real grace breaks in when we have to deal with what is other, foreign, different. Learn to understand, writes John of the Cross, more by not understanding than by understanding.
What’s dark, unfamiliar, frightening, and uninvited will stretch us in ways that the familiar and secure cannot. God sends his word to the earth through “angels” and they’re not exactly something we’re familiar with.

Join one of our many Adult Bible Studies or a Small Faith Community and listen to his voice through and with other!

Join us as we embark on a journey of spiritual growth and knowledge of the Holy Bible. The scripture class will approach the study of the Word of God utilizing contemporary Catholic biblical scholarship that is truly integrated, uniting exegesis and theology, faith, reason, Scripture and Tradition and the Old and New Testaments.
Our goal is to provide the participants with an in-depth critical historical understanding of the Old & New Testaments from a Catholic perspective by providing a lecture format and encouraging interactive class participation on the discussion of the relevance of the faith and moral teachings of the Bible to the Catholic Christian experience in our modern contemporary society. In conjunction with this goal, we will emphasize a spiritual environment conducive to building a deeper faith and a stronger sense of community. 

Instructor:  Jesse Del Rio, Graduate of LMU's Catholic Bible Institute
NEW DAY and LOCATION - MONDAY EVENINGS  beginning August 26th OLIVE HALL throughout Fall 2019- Winter/Spring 2020
6:30 to 8:00pm
Holy Name of Jesus Pastoral Center - HALL - 115 W. Olive Avenue
Instructor - Jesse Del Rio at jessedelrio27@gmail.com or Register on line.

Learn more on our Bible Study page:  /bible-study

If you would like to learn more about Loyola Marymount's Catholic Bible Institute that is held at our parish beginning September 2019, please visit this page:

http://www.academics.lmu.edu/extension/crs/programs/bible/

Estudio de la Biblia te invita a su proxima clase en el que estaremos abordando el maravilloso libro del Apocalipsis de San Juan, te esperamos todos los martes a partir del dia 10 de septiembre de 6:30-8:00 en la localidad de Olive, en el salon 7 de la escuela. Te esperamos.
Title:   Estudio Bíblico: Libro de Apocalipsis
Dates:    Sept 10 - Dec 17, 2019
Time:     6:30 - 8:00pm
Room:    Salón #7 de Academía (Olive Ave

Gathering together as Jesus' disciples to witness the wonders of God...in and through each other and His mighty works!
Join us for this FORMED video series - and faith sharing with prayer - FREE - on Thursday mornings beginning September 12th. We meet at 115 Olive Avenue, Pastoral Hall 9:00 to 11:0o. 
FORMED series Facilitator - Sylvia Vasquez at sdsedvasquez909@yahoo.com or register on line. 

Learn more on our Bible Study page:  /bible-study

P.M.F.P. is a series of faith classes for adults called Parish Minister Formation Program.
This series begins with a Saturday workshop and continues over 6 months. Classes are held at local parishes...

For details about the curriculum and schedule, visit our Diocesan Website:
https://www.sbdiocese.org/ministries/ministryinfo.cfm?id=1380076