Season 4
Grab Your Catechism
Fr. Charles P. Connor's popular Grab Your Catechism series continues into Season 4, with 12 full episodes on the 10 Commandments and Prayer. Fr. Connor's teachings on each commandment shed ever-new reflection on the laws you thought you understood through and through. Plus your prayer life will be illumined by the dimensions of prayer Fr. Connor brings to this area of spirituality. 4 discs/ 6 hrs. (CC)
Épisodes
The Ten Commandments
A look at the moral obligations the Ten Commandments place on our relationship with God and our fellow men.
The First Commandment
Fr. Charles Connor explains how the first three commandments instruct us on how to love God and one another.
The Second and Third Commandments
Fr. Charles Connor shows how the second and third commandments instruct us to revere the mystery of God's presence.
The Fourth Commandment
Fr. Charles Connor introduces the second tablet of the Decalogue with insights on the fourth commandment: love your mother and father.
The Fifth Commandment Part 1
Fr. Connor expands upon the fifth commandment, and how it teaches that every human life is sacred from conception to natural death.
The Fifth Commandment Part 2
Fr. Connor discusses The Fifth Commandment: Thou Shall Not Kill, by explaining how the Church's teachings against abortion, euthanasia, and suicide emphasize the true definition of peace.
The Sixth Commandment
Fr. Charles Connor explains how the sixth commandment reveals that married couples are meant to mirror God's fidelity to humanity by remaining faithful to one another.
The Seventh Commandment
Fr. Charles Connor discusses the seventh commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal, and how the unjust taking of material goods diminishes the respect of the labor of the person who earned it.
The Eighth Commandment
Fr. Charles Connor stresses the importance of the Eighth Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.
Ninth and Tenth Commandments
Fr. Charles Connor combines the last two commandments: thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, and thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods to teach us about purity and how to resist physical and material temptations.
Christian Prayer
Fr. Charles Connor delves into the history and purpose of prayer, ranging from personal offertories to some of the more traditional and formal forms.
The Life of Prayer and the Battle of Prayer
Fr. Charles Connor goes over the common objections people often have to prayer, and the means to overcome the struggles of our human nature and our reservations.
The Lord’s Prayer
Fr. Charles Connor reveals how The Lord's Prayer summarizes the entirety of the Gospel and why it is the fundamental Christian prayer.
