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ST. JOSEPH COMMUNICATIONS CATHOLIC ADULT EDUCATION SERIES
MODULE 1: LAYING THE GROUDWORK
THE SCOTT HAHN CONVERSION STORY
Protestant Minister becomes Catholic (Program 1)
It’s a story as old as Saul of Tarsus, as poignant as that of John Henry Newman and G.K. Chesterton. Scott, who once vigorously attacked the Catholic Faith, one day wakes up, shocked to discover the Biblical grounds of the Church. The more Scott studied Scripture, the more serious questions arose in his mind about such issues as sin and redemption, the nature of the Church, the meaning of the Last Supper, Biblical authority and revelation.
Like John Henry Newman’s, Scott’s dedication to follow the truth wherever it led him, even if it led him to Rome, cost him dearly. He lost his job, his position in the evangelical society, many of his friends and his vocation as a public minister. But he gained much more than he lost: the full truth of the Gospel. The former persecutor becomes a great champion and defender of the faith.
The conversion story of Scott Hahn is fast becoming legendary. Like other famous converts, from Augustine to Newman, Scott Hahn is able to help people appreciate the Catholic Faith in ways ordinary Catholics, who often take their heritage for granted, cannot. Now your friends and relatives can experience for themselves the tremendous spiritual power of Scott Hahn’s journey of Faith. They can discover why Scott Hahn has been invited to speak all around the country, to audiences of Catholics and non-Catholics, bishops and business executives. They will learn how he went from being militantly anti-Catholic to what he is today - one of the most powerful, articulate defenders of the Faith in America. This tape is a "must" for all those who know someone who is not in full communion with the Church.
1 videotape: R75.00
MY CONVERSION STORY By Kimberly Hahn
(Program 2)
The daughter of a prominent Protestant minister, Kimberly had earned a M.A. degree in theology when her husband, Scott, began taking a second look at the teachings of the Catholic Church. Kimberly’s own wrestling with the issue of artificial birth control in a class on Christian ethics had led her, much to her surprise, to adopt the Catholic position as more in harmony with Scripture. Her account of this journey is riveting audiences all across America..
1 videotape: R75.00
PROGRAM 3: THE SPLENDOR OF THE CHURCH
In this program Scott gives an overview of the Church and shares his profound insights on the beauty of the Church, the Bride of Christ, the Family of God. Scott also instills in the viewer a renewed respect for the Catholic Church by revealing the historic splendor of the Church through her apostolic zeal and consistency of doctrine.
PROGRAM 4: THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH - BOTH OR NEITHER
Once the Church has been established as the Bride of Christ and the Family of God, Scott shows in this program how the Bible and the Church go together like flesh and blood. They must be accepted or rejected together: both or neither. This will lay the groundwork for the next few programs and will generate a new interest in the Bible and in the Church’s consistency of doctrine, which is found to be constantly supported by Scripture.
1 videotape: R96.00 (Prog. 3&4) (Length 150 min)
MODULE II: SALVATION HISTORY
Module II of the "Catholic Adult Education on Video" program with Scott Hahn presents a broad overview of salvation history. The next five programs will focus on how the Family of God developed throughout Biblical history. This Family of God begins with the marital covenant established with Adam and Eve and reaches its fulfillment in the international or universal covenant established by Jesus Christ with His followers, the Catholic Church. Scott draws from his encyclopedic knowledge of the Old Testament to show that since the Old Testament was a prototype of what was to be fulfilled with the coming of the Messiah, the better we understand the Old Testament, the greater appreciation we will have for God’s handiwork in preparing His children for this awesome gift of salvation and divine sonship.
PROGRAM 5: ONE HOLY FAMILY - ONE HOLY TRIBE
This program discusses how God the Creator entered into a covenant with His creation: making Himself our Father, us creatures His children and the universe His glorious temple.
PROGRAM 6: ONE HOLY TRIBE (CONTINUED)
This program concludes the overview of salvation history from Adam to Noah.
1 videotape: R96.00 (Prog. 5&6)
PROGRAM 7: ONE HOLY FAMILY - ONE HOLY KINGDOM
This program begins with the covenant with Noah and shows how the human family became divided into tribes. God chose one of these tribes, Abraham’s, with which to make a blood covenant of faith and fidelity. Scott then shows how this covenant with Abraham is made manifest with the twelve tribes of Israel: making them His own national family and a priestly people.
PROGRAM 8: ONE HOLY KINGDOM
This program continues with a look at the Davidic Kingdom and at how God’s covenant with David transforms Israel into a kingdom designed to teach His wisdom to the nations. It is this kingdom that will be the prototype of the Kingdom of God, the Catholic Church, not yet established in its perfection here on earth.
1 videotape: R96.00 (Prog. 7&8)
PROGRAM 9: ONE HOLY CHURCH
This final program of the salvation history series brings it all together. All of the covenants of the Old Testament, all of the promises God made to His people are fulfilled in the New Covenant of Christ and His Church.
1 videotape: R75.00
MODULE III : UNDERSTANDING OUR ONE, HOLY,
CATHOLIC & APOSTOLIC CHURCH
Module III of the "Catholic Adult Education on Video" program with Scott Hahn focuses on the Church that Christ says He will build. (See Matthew 16.) In the first four programs in this module, Scott discusses the four defining characteristics of Christ's Church and how these four marks are rooted in the ancient Christian Faith.
Program 10 The Church is One
In this program Scott helps us to understand how, unlike the various Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church has always emphasized its fundamental unity. Just as there is only One Faith, there is and always has been only One Church, One Lord and One God.
Program 11 The Church is Holy
In this second program on the four marks of the Church, Scott focuses on the holiness of the Catholic Church and on the role of the saints in the Mystical Body of Christ. According to Scott, holiness is not some abstract concept of otherworldly piety but a very real, concrete attribute of Christian life. Scott shows us how God’s demand that the Church be holy is nothing less than a father’s concern for the protection of his children.
(10 AND 11 ON 1 video tape) R85
Program 12 The Church is Catholic
This program deals with the meaning of the word "catholic." "Catholic" means "universal" and comes from the Greek words meaning " completely whole." The Catholic Church is, therefore, the universal community of all believers. Scott shows how this universal community has always been guided by Christ through His appointed vicar on earth, the Holy Father.
Program 13 The Church is Apostolic
This program focuses on one of the unique claims of the Catholic Church: that it represents a real, unbroken chain of authentic oral teaching and power that extends back 2,000 years to the Apostles. In this program Scott explains that the continuous transmission of authority through the Bishops and their head, the Pope, gives the Catholic Church its power to speak for Christ on earth.
(12 AND 13 ON 1 video tape) R85
MODULE IV: A CLOSER LOOK AT CHRIST’S CHURCH
Module IV of the "Catholic Adult Education on Video" program with Scott Hahn takes a detailed look at the framework of the Church and its divinely orchestrated family structure. We will see just how the teachings about the Pope, Mary, Purgatory, the Saints and the Eucharist are all intimately woven into the master idea of the Family of God.
Program 14 The Pope, Holy Father
This program deals with one of the most misunderstood and often attacked aspects of the Church: the Pope. Scott shows from Scripture and tradition how the Pope is not an authoritarian overseer but rather a spiritual father appointed by Christ to care for the Family of God on earth.
Program 15 Purgatory, Holy Fire
This program deals with the Catholic doctrine of purgatory and how it is necessary in understanding the application of Christ's redemptive work in salvation. Using Scripture, Scott explains the Hebrew concept of sheol or the netherworld. He also cites passages such as Sirach 7:33, "Withhold not your kindness, O Lord, from the dead," to show how the ancient Hebrew had an intimation that the mercy of God extended even to the dead.
(14 AND 15 ON 1 video tape) R96
Program 16 Mary, Holy Mother
There is probably nothing more disturbing to Protestants than the profound devotion which Catholics have for the Blessed Virgin Mary. In this program Scott begins to explain the Marian doctrines by turning to the Bible. He spends a considerable amount of time looking at the Book of Genesis and the Prophet Isaiah to show how the role of Mary in salvation history was foreshadowed in the Old Testament. He then takes these Old Testament insights and shows how the writers of the New Testament see in Mary the Mother of Christ - the new Eve and the new Mother of humanity.
Program 17 Mary, Ark of the Covenant
This program continues with the examination of Mary and how she is prefigured in the Old Testament.
(16 AND 17 ON 1 video tape) R96
Program 18 Saints, Holy Siblings
To approach the veneration of the Saints from a Biblical perspective, Scott begins with the Book of Hebrews and the "Old Testament Hall of Fame". In this program he explains how the Saints are members of God’s family in heaven, the "older siblings" of God's sons and daughters on earth. He shows how the Saints constitute a "cloud of witnesses" which hovers over the world giving glory to God and "cheering on" the Christian family on earth.
Program 19 Eucharist, Holy Meal
In this program Scott brings to life the Biblical background of the Eucharist as a sacrifice and as the establishment of the New Covenant. Focusing on the Biblical concept of covenant or blood-oath, Scott explains how the Eucharist is the way in which God swears His final and eternal promise to His children. Finally, Scott highlights the specific objections some have with the Catholic Mass and provides listeners with key scriptural passages that will help anyone to understand the true nature of the Eucharist.
(18 AND 19 ON 1 video tape) R96
MODULE V: THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Module V of the "Catholic Adult Education on Video" program with Scott Hahn looks at the Catholic understanding of sacrament by comparing it to the Old Testament notion of covenant: a blood-oath in which people bind themselves together in solemn and eternal family bonds of allegiance. From there we proceed into the most solemn and supernatural mystery of all: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Through this solemn mystery, the Catholic Church on earth joins with all of creation in heaven and on earth in an eternal hymn of praise.
Program 20: INTRODUCTION TO THE MEANING OF A SACRAMENT
In this program Scott roots the Catholic understanding of sacrament in the Biblical conception of an oath, sacramentum in the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible. Christianity is the only religion in the world, Scott explains, which believes that God Himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, swore an oath establishing a New Covenant binding the Christian community to Himself.
Program 21: GRACE IS FOR-GIVING AND FOR-GETTING
This program explains how Christ’s establishment of the New Covenant, His solemn oath by which the Christian community becomes the sons and daughters of God, is expressed in seven specific sacramental oaths. These sacred oaths, the sacraments, are the means by which God binds human beings to the Divine Family. Scott explains the sacred and eternal oaths involved in the Catholic sacraments of Baptism, Penance, Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Marriage and Anointing of the Sick.
1 video tape: R96.00 (Prog 20&21)
Program 22: SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED: BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION
This program deals with two of the three Sacraments that bestow an indelible mark on our souls: Baptism, the Sacrament of rebirth, whereby we become children of God, and Confirmation, the Sacrament of Battle, whereby we become soldiers of Christ. These are two Sacraments through which human beings respond to the divine promise of covenant by pledging themselves to God in Christ.
Program 23: COMMUNION AS REUNION: THE EUCHARIST
In this program Scott explains that it is preeminently in the Eucharist, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, that Christ gives Himself to His people and establishes the New Covenant. When Catholics receive Communion, Scott says, they become quite literally what they eat: they become part of the Body of Christ. "For My body is real food, and My blood is real drink." (Jn 6:55)
1 video tape: R96.00 (Prog 22&23)
Program 24 Holy Healing: Penance and Anointing of the Sick
This program deals with how the Sacraments offer spiritual healing. Scott confronts head-on the secular world view that doubts the need for spiritual healing as well as the existence of diseases of the soul.
Program 25 Going on Vocation: Marriage and Holy Orders
In this final program on the Sacraments, Scott offers excellent practical advice for young men considering the priesthood. For young couples pursuing marriage, he explains, how the sacrament of Matrimony is in fact, a reflection of the Blessed Trinity; where two become one, and become three. Scott goes on to show how priesthood and marriage are both means of sanctification for different people.
(24 AND 25 ON 1 video tape) R85
Program 26 The Lamb's Supper
All of the previous lessons find their fulfillment and climax in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This program is designed to explain the Catholic Mass as a Biblical prayer that unites heaven and earth, angels and men, all of creation in an eternal hymn of praise to God. Scott explains how the once and for all sacrifice is fulfilled by Christ in the Last Supper and on the Cross. He shows how Christ is not re-sacrificed but, re-presented on our altars. He also provides key insights to help us see the Mass, not as a dead ritual, but as the earthly liturgy reflecting the heavenly liturgy, which comes to culmination in the marriage feast of the Lamb as described by St. John in the book of Revelation.
(Prog. 26: 1 video tape) R75
MODULE VI: APPLYING OUR FAITH TO OUR FAMILIES
In this final module of the "Catholic Adult Education on Video" program with Scott and Kimberly Hahn, we look at how to apply all of what we have learned about our Catholic faith to our families. Since it is the family which is the heart of society, a strong family constitutes a strong society, and a society built on the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a house built on a foundation of stone. This final phase will conclude with three programs geared toward responding to our Catholic Christian obligation and to our Holy Father's call to evangelization. At World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado, 1993, the Pope issued one of the sternest warnings ever to Catholics: "Woe to me if I do not evangelize, Woe to you if you do not succeed in defending life." These last three programs will first address the issue of evangelizing the family and then move outward to evangelizing society.
Program 27 Christ and the Church: A Model for Marriage
In this program Scott shows how the relationship between Christ and His Church is the perfect model for all marriages and expands upon St. Paul's teaching on this most Holy Union.
Program 28 The Holy Family: A Model for the Catholic Home
This program deals with just how it is that Joseph, Mary and Jesus are the perfect model for all Catholic homes. Scott looks at each of their roles in the family and examines the example each one sets for all of us.
(27 AND 28 ON 1 video tape) R85
Program 29 Children: A Model for Family Growth
In this program Kimberly takes the class through her own study of Scripture and the teaching of the Catholic Church about children. Kimberly explains in detail that, contrary to the view of secular society, these little children are actually blessings from God. They are the embodiment of the total self-giving love of husband and wife and, in a real sense, complete the familial reflection of the Blessed Trinity that was originally intended by God in the marital covenant. This familial reflection gives new meaning to God's word in Genesis, "God created man in His own image and likeness."
Program 30 Catechizing the Family
In this program Kimberly expands upon program 29. She focuses on the vocation of marriage and the call, not only to procreate children, but to educate them as well. Kimberly, drawing from her many years of study as a theologian, and her experience as a mother of four, explains not only the spiritual dimension of this vocation involving children, but also the practical applications of educating them as well.
(29 AND 30 ON 1 video tape) R90
Program 31 Know Your Rites: Living the Sacramental Life as a Family
In this program Kimberly, drawing from Philippians 1:6, shows how God, through the Sacraments, begins a great work in all who receive them and that it is God who brings that work to completion in each of us. Kimberly takes the class through the seven Sacraments and explains how the Sacraments are God's way of infusing grace, His own divine life, into His children: His sons and daughters. She goes on to emphasize the need for all families to apply these Sacraments to their lives and to make them a part of their everyday experience.
Program 32 Overworked and Underprayed: Catholic Devotions for the Family
This program builds upon program 31. Kimberly begins this presentation with a close look at the relationship between Mary and Joseph and emphasizes the need for fatherly spiritual leadership in the family. From there she continues her discussion of the Sacraments and moves into developing Catholic spirituality as a family.
(31 AND 32 ON 1 video tape) R90
Program 33 Catechizing and Evangelizing the Family: A Vision for the 21st Century
In this program Scott takes a look at what it means to catechize and to evangelize. Because these two words and their meanings are commonly lumped together without distinction, there is a lack of adequate catechizing and effective evangelization. Scott not only explains what is involved in proper catechesis and evangelization, but offers us as well the techniques to do it. He explains certain methods that work within the family for catechizing children, methods for evangelizing ourselves and methods for reaching out to our separated brothers and sisters.
Program 34 The Great Omission: Why Catholics Don't Evangelize
In this program Scott takes a look at what it really means to be a Catholic—what it means to be in Christ, and how we can impart the Christian faith, especially to our children.
(33 AND 34 ON 1 video tape) R90
Program 35 The Catholic Gospel: More Than Saving Sinners
In this program Scott draws from the points he brought out in programs 33 and 34. He explains what the Good News is that we are called to share. Scott explains that the Catholic gospel is no less than God establishing sinners as sons and daughters in the Family of God, a truth that has been taught for almost two thousand years.
(35: 1 video tape) R75