Dr. James Dobbins Catholic Apologetics

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a podcast of class we hold each Sunday after the 5:00PM Mass at our parish, St. William of York, in Stafford, Virginia. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the Diary of St. Faustina. Because the Diary is too large to really do a complete study, we will use the Concordance to pick topics and discuss what the Diary says about those topics. You can order the Diary of St. Faustina and the Concordance from the Divine Mercy Center in Stockbridge, MA, or from an on-line Catholic Book Store like the one for which a link is provided in the next paragraph. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a podcast of class we hold each Sunday after the 5:00PM Mass at our parish, St. William of York, in Stafford, Virginia. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. A lot has been going on with regard to the liturgy. Pope Benedict issued his encyclical on the Extraordinary form of the Mass, making it available to everyone, and the new missal for the Ordinary form of the Mass will be issued soon. Because of the importance of this topic, I decided to provide this lesson on the views of Pope Benedict on the Mass. This is part 1 of a re-delivery of the class we did on the mind of Pope Benedict and his views on the liturgy before we started recording classes and publishing our podcasts. I wanted our internet listeners to have the benefit of this class. Because the in-house members of the class have already been through this class, I did not want them to have to repeat it, and so the only person speaking in this series will be me, and for that I apologize. I do not like being a solitary talking head, but I also wanted you to have this information. I hope you will forgive the absence of the other class members in this series.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a podcast of class we hold each Sunday after the 5:00PM Mass at our parish, St. William of York, in Stafford, Virginia. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the Diary of St. Faustina. Because the Diary is too large to really do a complete study, we will use the Concordance to pick topics and discuss what the Diary says about those topics. You can order the Diary of St. Faustina and the Concordance from the Divine Mercy Center in Stockbridge, MA, or from an on-line Catholic Book Store like the one for which a link is provided in the next paragraph. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a podcast of class we hold each Sunday after the 5:00PM Mass at our parish, St. William of York, in Stafford, Virginia. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the Diary of St. Faustina. Because the Diary is too large to really do a complete study, we will use the Concordance to pick topics and discuss what the Diary says about those topics. You can order the Diary of St. Faustina and the Concordance from the Divine Mercy Center in Stockbridge, MA, or from an on-line Catholic Book Store like the one for which a link is provided in the next paragraph. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

This is a listing of the readings from the Diary of St. Faustina we wil use on August 30. It gives the paragraph number, the page in the diary, and short synopsis of the paragraph. If you read the selections in advance and have a question on any of the paragraphs, please email me the question and we will cover it in the discussions on August 30.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a podcast of class we hold each Sunday after the 5:00PM Mass at our parish, St. William of York, in Stafford, Virginia. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the Diary of St. Faustina. Because the Diary is too large to really do a complete study, we will use the Concordance to pick topics and discuss what the Diary says about those topics. You can order the Diary of St. Faustina and the Concordance from the Divine Mercy Center in Stockbridge, MA, or from an on-line Catholic Book Store like the one for which a link is provided in the next paragraph. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a podcast of class we hold each Sunday after the 5:00PM Mass at our parish, St. William of York, in Stafford, Virginia. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the Diary of St. Faustina. Because the Diary is too large to really do a complete study, we will use the Concordance to pick topics and discuss what the Diary says about those topics. You can order the Diary of St. Faustina and the Concordance from the Divine Mercy Center in Stockbridge, MA, or from an on-line Catholic Book Store like the one for which a link is provided in the next paragraph. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a class we hold each week at our parish. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the Diary of St. Faustina. Because the Diary is too large to really do a complete study, we will use the Concordance to pick topics and discuss what the Diary says about those topics. You can order the Diary of St. Faustina and the Concordance from the Divine Mercy Center in Stockbridge, MA, or from an on-line Catholic Book Store like the one for which a link is provided in the next paragraph. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

This is a notice about the nerw series on the Diary of St. Faustina we will begin on August 9. You should have the Concordance to the Diary of St. Faustina and a copy of the Diary of St. Faustina. Both are available from the Divine Mercy Center in Stockbridge, MA, or from Amazon.com.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a class we hold each week at our parish. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. Please note that in this class I borrowed a recorder because I forgot mine, and about 25 minutes into the class it ran out of memory, so we had to stop and delete some files and start again. Therefore, there may be a discontinuity at some point in the class, but it is not you or your system, it was our fault. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the blueprint for sainthood given to us by Jesus. Throughout the four gospels, He told us what we should do. If we do what Jesus said to do, we will have our path to sainthood laid out for us. What He told us to do is collected in the document “What Jesus Said To Do”, which has already been uploaded. This document will be the basis for our discussions for this series of classes. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a class we hold each week at our parish. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the blueprint for sainthood given to us by Jesus. Throughout the four gospels, He told us what we should do. If we do what Jesus said to do, we will have our path to sainthood laid out for us. What He told us to do is collected in the document “What Jesus Said To Do”, which has already been uploaded. This document will be the basis for our discussions for this series of classes. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a class we hold each week at our parish. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the blueprint for sainthood given to us by Jesus. Throughout the four gospels, He told us what we should do. If we do what Jesus said to do, we will have our path to sainthood laid out for us. What He told us to do is collected in the document "What Jesus Said To Do", which has already been uploaded. This document will be the basis for our discussions for this series of classes. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a class we hold each week at our parish. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. In these classes we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. I post any related document files, such as slides or other documents, which can be downloaded from our web site at http://yorked.podomatic.com. We are now discussing the blueprint for sainthood given to us by Jesus. Throughout the four gospels, He told us what we should do. If we do what Jesus said to do, we will have our path to sainthood laid out for us. What He told us to do is collected in the document “What Jesus Said To Do”, which has already been uploaded. This document will be the basis for our discussions for this series of classes. I also recommend you get a marvelous CD titled Welcome to the Catholic Church, from Harmony Media. This CD can be ordered from Ignatius Press, the 101 Foundation, or from your local Catholic book store (ex: http://realcatholic.com/ in Richmond, Va). This CD is a huge treasure trove of material on the Catholic Church, including two searchable bibles, the Catechisms, Council documents, and many, many other documents. I highly recommend it, and it is a genuine bargain. Please invite your friends to join us. I also invite you to visit Meg Jaworowski's bible study class which can be found at http://www.catholicbiblebootcamp.com and http://catholicbiblebootcamp.podomatic.com. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a class we hold each week at our parish. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. This is a re-post of class 5 of our 5-part series on the Eucharist. This class deals particularly with Eucharistic Miracles.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. This is a class we hold each week at our parish. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. This is a re-post of class 4 of a 5-part series on the Eucharist.