Catholic · Emmaus course
Tracing the Hand of God: Spiritual Life Mapping with St. Paul
You can't always see God working while it's happening. You see it looking back.
You can't always see God working while it's happening. You see it looking back. In about 45 minutes, learn the practice the saints used to recognize His hand across a whole life, starting with the one map we know best: St. Paul's.
NBCC CE · 0.75 clock hours · Human Growth and Development (HGD)
With Fr. Robert Presutti, LC
- Length
- 45 min
- Lessons
- 1
- Level
- Intermediate
- Version
- Catholic
- Price
- Free
a person hires the course to do a job, which here is making sense of a life.
About this course
You can't always see God working while it's happening. You see it looking back. In about 45 minutes, learn the practice the saints used to recognize His hand across a whole life, starting with the one map we know best: St. Paul's.
Who this course is for
The adult seeking God in their own life
State openly that the course speaks to two learners at once: the adult seeking God in their own life, and the counselor or director who accompanies others.
The counselor or director who accompanies others
For the counselor audience, state the credit as "0.75 NBCC clock hours, Human Growth and Development."
From the course syllabus
You can’t always see God working while it’s happening. You see it looking back. A spiritual life map is the simple practice of laying out the events of your life and tracing the presence that was guiding you all along, and the gratitude that follows tends to surprise people.
This short course teaches the practice the way the Church has always taught it: through a story you already know. The Apostle Paul reflected on his own journey constantly, from his upbringing under Rabbi Gamaliel and his part in the stoning of Stephen, through the light on the road to Damascus, the friend who vouched for him when no one else would, the missionary years, the painful losses, and the road to Rome. Paul kept returning to that story because remembering how God had led him was how he stayed faithful to the end. By the time you finish, you will have begun to draw your own map.
Curriculum
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Module 1
Tracing the Hand of God: Spiritual Life Mapping with St. Paul
- 1.Lesson: The Spiritual Life Map: Seeing God’s Action in Your Story
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