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Summa Society Part 3: The Simplicity of God. Special Guest: Steve Cortright

Veritas Stockton Social

Young Adults Adore!

June 2013

Sacramento

Jun 20 2013 - 7:00pm • Folsom

Want to improve your Catholic mind with other young adults? Summa Society meets every third Thursday at St. John the Baptist Folsom, Youth Room. Our Guest Leader this month will be Professor Stephen... Read more

Jun 21 2013 - 6:30pm • Stockton

Join Veritas Stockton in meeting other young adults at the 2nd floor patio in the Elks Building in Downtown Stockton. You will also have the chance to meet local priests and even ask them a question... Read more

Jul 1 2013 - 7:00pm • Sacramento

Join Young Adults from all over the diocese who have come to adore the Risen Lord Jesus. Bring a friend to the Cathedral for this amazing evening of prayer and fellowship. Confessions will be... Read more

Veritas Stockton Social

Jun 21 2013 - 6:30pm

Elks Building patio • Stockton

Young Adults Adore!

Jul 1 2013 - 7:00pm

Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament • Sacramento

Join Young Adults from all over the diocese who have come to adore the Risen Lord Jesus. Bring a friend to the Cathedral for this amazing evening of prayer and fellowship. Confessions will be...

Summa Society Part 4: the Perfection of God

Jul 18 2013 - 7:00pm

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church • Folsom

Want to improve your Catholic mind with other young adults? Summa Society meets every third Thursday at St. John the Baptist Folsom, Youth Room Open to anybody, age 18 to 39, we will cover one...

8:00 am 8:00 am [nothing]World Wide Holy Hour Pope Francis has called for a worldwide Solemn Eucharistic Adoration on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). That's every church in the world united in Adoration at the SAME time. 5PM in Rome = 8am in Sacramento... [Read more]2

7:00 pm 7:00 pm [nothing]Young Adults Adore! Join Young Adults from all over the diocese who have come to adore the Risen Lord Jesus. Bring a friend to the Cathedral for this amazing evening of prayer and fellowship. Confessions will be available and a social at Gallagher's Irish Pub will... [Read more]3

8:40 am to 3:15 pm 8:40 am to 3:15 pm [nothing]Mens' Day Retreat Men: Don’t miss this one day retreat: Men's Day of Faith Renewal. Saturday, June 8, 2013 St. Mel Parish - Fair Oaks, CA Retreat led by: Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers One of the most sought-after speakers in the Catholic Church today. He is truly a... [Read more]8

7:00 pm 7:00 pm [nothing]Patrick Downey: Who is The Bible's Bloody Author? At the Heart of the Bible, there is Christ, God dead; and it is true that He would have died for each and every one of us...but not of natural causes. Join young adults in an engaging evening that is guaranteed to shed new light on the Bible which... [Read more]13

7:00 pm 7:00 pm [nothing]Summa Society Part 3: The Simplicity of God. Special Guest: Steve Cortright Want to improve your Catholic mind with other young adults? Summa Society meets every third Thursday at St. John the Baptist Folsom, Youth Room. Our Guest Leader this month will be Professor Stephen Cortright, professor of Philosophy and Director of... [Read more]20

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm [nothing]Veritas Stockton Social Join Veritas Stockton in meeting other young adults at the 2nd floor patio in the Elks Building in Downtown Stockton. You will also have the chance to meet local priests and even ask them a question or two. There will be appetizers and refreshments... [Read more]21

Lessons Atheists Can Teach Us About the New Evangelization

If I had a nickel for every Catholic who has told me, "I fell away from the Church right after high school," I could buy myself a fancy steak dinner. Some of them, thanks be to God, come back. Many of them have not yet returned to Holy...
Why do we go to Mass?

Two of the precepts of the Church are that we must receive Holy Communion at least once a year, and we must attend Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation. If you regularly attend one parish, you quickly notice that hardly anyone goes...
Jesus is Amazing. No, Seriously...

The reason why I didn’t care much for religion growing up was because I thought it was boring and stupid. Boring because of the lack of enthusiasm on the part of anyone who tried to teach me the faith and stupid because my questions...
Just A Good Teacher?

Jesus was not just a good teacher. He claimed to be God. If I went on the street corner and told everyone, “Before Charles Darwin was, I AM,” then you better believe I would be ignored, or if I persisted enough… locked...
Lost and Found: My Not So Uncommon Testimony

I was born and raised Catholic. I was baptized as a baby, did my first communion, reconciliation and in 8th grade I was confirmed. I went to mass EVERY Sunday with my family. EVEN on Vacation! I used to have check off parts in my head....
The Fideist's Anathema

It's been said that St. Thomas Aquinas as knew the objections to the faith better than the objectors themselves did. Thomas regretted the medieval Church's tendency to burn heretical books, because he believed that by refuting the...
Wise as a Serpent, Not Heartless as a Cynic

How are we supposed to relate with our fellow companeros? Do we assume the worst in them so as to protect ourselves from physical or moral danger? Or do we excuse their actions so as to protect ourselves from pride thus enabling us to...
Until They Have Faces...

Once again our country has been thrown into the “gay marriage” debate, and the stakes have seemingly never been higher now that the Supreme Court is involved. The reasons for the Catholic Church’s opposition to state-...
The Crucified Warrior

Any talk of spiritual warfare is considered by our culture to be at best naiveté, and at worse products of ignorance. It is difficult for our highly technical, rational culture to come to grasp with the reality of the supernatural world....
3 Ways to Make Your Parish Religious Ed Program Better... Now.

Let's be honest, the problem with Catholic culture in America is fundamentally a problem of education. Since the Baltimore Catechism went out of style in the 1960's, American Catholics had been without a comprehensive and...
Mad Men and a Patristic Consolation

Recently the Supreme Court was debating a ruling on the legality of Gay Marriage in the United States; we saw the CEO of Starbucks declare that anyone who upholds traditional marriage should take their business elsewhere. Have we come...
Dying to Heal

The older I get, the more places I go, the more books I read, and the more people I meet, the more aware I become of humanity’s inherent, inescapable, and almost incomprehensible, brokenness. The wounds first caused by Original Sin,...
Why Marriage Cannot Be Redefined

If you are genuinely curious if there are any arguments for the conjugal view (male/female) of marriage outside of divine revelation, you are my target audience. Let’s start out like Socrates and define our terms. Let’s not...
Four Gifts of the Resurrected Body

The perfect body seems to allude us all. It's something that everybody wants but few of us have. Most of us, try as we do, find ourselves stuck with the same dying, odly shaped, drooping flesh. The situation seems...
Judas and the Secret of St. John

Tradition is the conveyance of the real; literally, the “handing on” of truth. At the heart of Holy Thursday, the young Church is entrusted with precisely this. A man who has identified Himself as the Truth itself has...
5 Things You Might Not Know About Pope Francis (besides the lung)

Besides being the first uni-lunged Pontiff, here are 5 things you might not know about the newest Bishop of Rome: #1: Why Francis? Most main stream media reports indicate that Pope Francis chose his name in honor of St. Francis of...
Prone To Wander

Everyone who has not yet reached sainthood knows the feeling of the fall. Sin is not all that its cracked up to be. Everyday God offers us this choice: My will or His. His will appears more difficult, but it is always the sure way to peace...
How to Read Your Bible

In this short essay, I intend to discuss the meaning and interrelation of the senses of Scripture. Once we have analyzed the nature of and distinction between these different senses, we will then explore how this meaning and interrelation...
Live Action and Fraternal Charity

“When I Want to do What is Good, Evil Lies Close at Hand” (Romans 7:20) No one, no Christian at least, denies that Live Action’s undercover “stings” have occasioned some great goods. Of course the problem...
Breaking Trad: Overcoming my Liturgical Double Life

If you asked me a year ago if I would ever willingly attend a Novus Ordo Mass again, the answer would have been a definitive and resounding NO. I mean, if I absolutely had to, if there was a funeral, or a wedding, or all the priests who...
Peter and the Wolves: On the Papacy and Modernity

Why have a Pope? This is a question that perplexes the modern world. This is why the press is obsessing over the whys of Benedict XVI’s recent announcement. I have never seen anything like the spectacle of our chattering classes...
The Undatables: A Crisis of Love

Ask any single Catholic in their 20′s or 30′s why they are still single and you’re bound to hear a whole host of reasons. But lately there has been a common thread to all their replies; Catholics (of the opposite sex) are...
The Dark Night Rises: Sacred Art

I am happy to announce that sacred art is back in style and if, in 200 years or so, Western civilization has been saved, we can add Christopher Nolan to the list of people to thank. Why? Because thanks to his art, the Gospel is again being...