http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/ Rite of Christian Initiation for Artists in Hollywood en-us Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:00:00 PDT Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:15:00 PDT postmaster@doxaweb.com postmaster@doxaweb.com Copyright 2009 http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/beginning.html Barbara Nicolosi introduces the program and the RCIA team for 2005-2006. Duration: 13 minutes. Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/recommended-supplementary-materials.html Barbara discusses the syllabus as well as recommended theologians, philosophers, books and films. Duration: 33 minutes. Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/pentecost-sequence.html Barbara leads a discussion on the Beatitudes. Duration: 49 minutes. Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:15:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-2.html Clayton Emmer introduces the second session of RCIA. Duration: 7 minutes. Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:15:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-2.html Clayton leads a discussion on the world of Matthew's gospel, including discussion of the role of memory in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Duration: 8 minutes. Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:30:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-2.html A discussion of the first chapter of Matthew, including questions about the genealogy of Jesus and the importance of Mary's perpetual virginity. Duration: 36 minutes. Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:45:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-2.html A discussion of the second chapter of Matthew. Topics include the Magi and the role of prophecy in the Bible. Duration: 28 minutes. Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-2.html Fr. David Guffey reads the third chapter of Matthew's gospel. Duration: 3 minutes. Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:15:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-3.html Barbara Nicolosi introduces the third session of RCIA by talking about the Te Deum. Duration: 4 minutes. Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-3.html Barbara Nicolosi leads a discussion of the fourth chapter of Matthew's gospel, with a focus on the three temptations of Christ in the desert. Duration: 90 minutes. Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:15:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-3.html Barbara Nicolosi discusses the passage in Matthew 5 about the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Duration: 16 minutes. Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:45:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-4.html Barbara Nicolosi discusses All Saints Day and All Souls Day. Duration: 9 minutes. Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/10/session-4.html Barbara Nicolosi leads a session on Dei Verbum, the document from Vatican II on the Sacred Scriptures. Topics include the selection of the canon of Scripture, Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, the development and transmission of divine revelation, and scriptural interpretation. Duration: 91 minutes. Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:15:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2005/11/session-5.html Barbara Nicolosi leads a discussion on the second half of Matthew 5. Topics include anger, adultery and divorce, cutting oneself off from sin, the radical demands of love, oaths, lies, giving to the poor, responding to injustice, and love of enemies. Duration: 100 minutes. Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/rosalind-moss-on-eucharist.html Barbara Nicolosi leads a prayer for the end of the writer's strike in Hollywood Duration: 6 minutes. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/rosalind-moss-on-eucharist.html Barbara Nicolosi introduces the second half of the RCIA Hollywood program for 2007-2008. She reviews what has been covered so far this year, particularly the place of Jesus and his self-offering, within the context of salvation history. This introduction sets up the class for today's talk on the Eucharist and the Mass. Duration: 20 minutes. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/rosalind-moss-on-eucharist.html Special Guest Rosalind Moss teaches about the sacramental life, the Eucharist, and the Mass, within the context of the story of her spiritual journey beginning with Judaism, through Evangelical Christianity, and into the Catholic Church. Duration: 95 minutes. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:10:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/session-11-church-part-ii-hierarchy.html Barbara Nicolosi presents the Church's teaching on Peter's role in the Church, apostolic succession, papal authority and infallibility in the realm of faith and morals, and ex cathedra statements. Special attention is given to Matthew 16, verses 13 and following. Duration: 66 minutes. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:30:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/session-11-church-part-ii-hierarchy.html Barbara Nicolosi presents the Church's teaching on disciplines and doctrines, the deposit of faith, and salvation as it relates to those outside the communion of the Church. Duration: 36 minutes. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:30:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/meet-mentors.html Barbara Nicolosi discusses the role of mentors in the RCIA Hollywood program. Duration: 5 minutes. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:30:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/02/session-15-morality-and-first-three.html Clayton Emmer leads a session on the Catholic vision of the moral life: the vocation to beatitude; the desire for happiness; the morality of human acts; conscience, erroneous judgment, and vincible/invincible ignorance. Also, we spent some time covering the Church's teaching on purgatory and indulgences. Duration: 97 minutes. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:30:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/02/session-17-passions-virtues-and-first.html Barbara Nicolosi leads a session on the principle of double effect, which is used for discernment in difficult moral dilemmas. The discussion included a consideration of just war, capital punishment, and stem cell research. In this class, Barbara also covered the first three commandments as they relate to the moral life. What behaviors are contrary to the worship of God alone? What does the second commandment forbid? And what does it mean to keep holy the Sabbath? Duration: 125 minutes. Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:30:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/session-12-holy-spirit-and-sacraments.html Barbara Nicolosi discusses the role of laypeople in the Church and then summarizes the activity of the Holy Spirit in the sacraments. Duration: 75 minutes. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/session-12-holy-spirit-and-sacraments.html Clayton Emmer leads a dicussion of the sacraments of initiation. Topics include the relationship between baptism and confirmation, the practice of infant baptism, and how the sacraments of initiation shape our Christian lives. The session also includes a brief discussion of Flannery O'Connor's short story "The River" as it relates to baptism. Duration: 60 minutes. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:00:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/04/26-pope-benedict-xvis-apostolic-visit.html Clayton Emmer leads a dicussion of Pope Benedict XVI's apostolic visit to the United States in April of 2008. Topics include the contrast between media coverage of the events and what the Pope actually said, and an in-depth look at several of the texts from his visit, including the question and answer session held on the plane trip to the US, the Pope's words to the bishops, to leaders of Catholic institutions of higher education, and to ecumenical leaders. Duration: 91 minutes. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:45:00 PST http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/18-discipleship-in-hollywood-morality.html Dr. Daniel McInerny of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, and Dr. Michael P. Foley, Great Texts Program at Baylor University, lead a discussion of the following: the holiness of the artist; the needs of the audience in storytelling; the four cardinal virtues; the three theological virtues; and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Duration: 96 minutes. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:30:00 PST http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/19-human-sexuality-and-sacrament-of.html Patrick Coffin, the host of Catholic Answers Live, leads a discussion on the sacrament of marriage, with a particular focus on the Church's teaching on contraception and natural family planning. Duration: 130 minutes. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:15:00 PST http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/triduum.html Dr. Eric Hansen, resident fellow at Magis Institute, opens our 2008 Triduum Retreat with a presentation about the meaning of the Triduum. Duration: 23 minutes. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:45:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/stations-of-cross-in-art.html Dr. Eric Hansen, resident fellow at Magis Institute, presents a slide show of sacred images related to the stations of the cross. Duration: 49 minutes. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:50:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-friday-at-3-pm-miserere-mei-deus.html Fr. Don Woznicki introduces a musical meditation on the Miserere Mei Deus. Duration: 18 minutes. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:55:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/21-suffering.html Using Fr. Walter Ciszek's spiritual autobiography, He Leadeth Me, Barbara Nicolosi leads a discussion on suffering. Duration: 28 minutes. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:57:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/mary-bread-of-life-and-mystery-of-holy.html Clayton Emmer presents a short meditation on Mary, the Eucharist, and the Mystery of Holy Saturday. Duration: 11 minutes. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:59:00 PDT http://rciahollywood.blogspot.com/2008/03/23-last-things-death-judgment-heaven.html On the morning of Holy Saturday, Clayton Emmer leads a session on the last things. The discussion covers the Church's teaching on death, particular and universal judgment, heaven, hell, and purgatory. All of these subjects are examined within the context of the journey of the human person to the Father's house. Duration: 95 minutes. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:00:00 PDT