Buying Your Textbooks

Remember to purchase your student workbooks from the Office of Religious Education and Evangelization. Other texts can be most easily found online. Art Brozowsky, Class of 2016, recommends this website for an inexpensive option for purchasing textbooks: http://bigwords.com/

A Weekly Bible Study

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
Philippians 2:6-11

My name is Adam.

We must acknowledge that we are like Adam. For we have inherited Adam’s sin. In important ways, we journey as Adam.

But by the power and promise of Christ’s death and resurrection we also journey with Jesus. We cannot help but bow in reverence before the mystery revealed in this first century hymn, reported by Paul to the Philippians in Sunday's reading. Among the earliest statements of faith in Christ Jesus, this hymn focuses on Jesus’ divinity (called a “high Christology” in theological terms).

The Philippians hymn is worth looking at often and frequently: 

Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness...
he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him...
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend...
and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

This hymn tells us, today, that Jesus, being exalted as Lord and Savior, yet humbles himself to undertake humanity, servitude, and a humiliating death. Therefore it is fitting that we also bow in humility alongside our Lord to become servants of God and one another.

We walk a fine line each day between choosing Adam and choosing Christ. When we choose Adam, we open ourselves to the power of sin and death. When we choose Christ we open ourselves to the power of love and life.

My name is Adam, and I walk with Christ.

The author, Ms. Barbara Gawle, leads Bible studies at her parish, Incarnation Church of Wethersfield, CT. She is a CBS graduate and the 2012 recipient of the Biblical School's highest award, The Lawrence Boadt Memorial Medal.

CBS Schedule: Keeping Holy Week Holy

Most of our classes do not meet during Holy Week. We encourage you to enter wholeheartedly into the Scriptures and liturgies of Holy Week, especially the Sacred Triduum on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

One class, however, will be meeting on Tuesday. CBS 200 (Year 2) at Caritas Christi Center, Hamden (Tuesdays 10-noon) will meet during Holy Week instead of Easter Week. So Lesson 3.4 homework is due on Tuesday, March 26, and Lesson 3.5 homework is due on Tuesday, April 9. There will be no class meeting (for the Hamden class only) on April 2, 2013.

CBS Students Living and Leading in God's Word

"Comfort the Sorrowing" Mural,  Solanus Casey Center

Comfort the Sorrowing: A Spiritual Work of Mercy

Dr. Paula DeSilva and more than 200 volunteers are offering a measure of comfort to the sorrowing by crafting quilts for those most closely affected by the December 14 tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

To find out more or to help (no sewing necessary), contact:

Dr. Paula DeSilva
SANDY HOOK-QUILTS2HEAL Founder/Project Coordinator
78 Bronson Road, Avon, CT 06001-2930
h. 860-675-8215; c. 860-306-7000
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sandyhook-quilts2heal@comcast.net
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