One Book One Parish

One Book: This Is My Body by Bishop Robert Barron (5x7 Paperback - Only 110 pages!)

One Parish: Holy Family Rockland
This Fall we are encouraging everyone in our Holy Family parish to try something new and join together in reading the same book as a community, sharing in the insights, knowledge and spiritual growth we will gain from one another.

• Books are free and available in the Church foyer.
• We will have five weeks to read the book.
• Join Us for our Closing event Sunday, October 1, 2023; 11:30 AM in Mary’s Chapel.
• Lunch to follow at 12:30 at St. Joseph's Center. Please join us!

One Book One Parish 2023: Reading Schedule and Questions
This Is My Body Week 5: Sunday, September 24 – Saturday, September 30
Reading Assignment for week 5:

• Pages 77 - 110.

General Questions:

• What words or phrases stood out to you?
• What did you like and why?
• What was hard for you and why?
• What is one positive way you can respond to the reading this week?

Points to Ponder:

• What was Berengarius' misunderstanding of the change taking place in the bread and wine? And how did the Church respond to Berengarius’ teachings that the bread and wine were only symbolically changed?
• St. Paul tells us, “It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.” (Gal. 2:20) What are your thoughts on this as a believer in the True Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist?

This Is My Body Week 4: Sunday, September 17 – Saturday, September 23
Reading Assignment for week 4:

• Pages 51 - 77.

General Questions:

• What words or phrases stood out to you?
• What did you like and why?
• What was hard for you and why?
• What is one positive way you can respond to the reading this week?

Points to Ponder:

• How did Jesus use the Passover supper to give definitive interpretation to the events of the next day?
• Why is the Eucharist liturgy a sacred meal?

This Is My Body Week 3: Sunday, September 10 – Saturday, September 16
Reading Assignment for week 3:

• Pages 26-51.

General Questions:

• What words or phrases stood out to you?
• What did you like and why?
• What was hard for you and why?
• What is one positive way you can respond to the reading this week?

Points to Ponder:

• How does the Sacred Liturgy, the Mass, restore unity?
• What is the importance of sacrifice in restoring communion?

This Is My Body Week 2: Sunday, September 3 – Saturday, September 9
Reading Assignment for week 2:

• Pages v-26.

General Questions:

• What words or phrases stood out to you?
• What did you like and why?
• What was hard for you and why?
• What is one positive way you can respond to the reading this week?

Points to Ponder:

• What is Love?
• What did you learn from the 2 Old Testament “Sacred Meals”?
• How is Jesus different from the prophets and teachers in the Old Testament?
• God uses “meals” as a framework for restoring the division caused by The Fall of Adam and Eve. Jesus reestablishes the Sacred Meal. What are your thoughts about that?

 
A recent Pew Forum survey revealed the startling statistic that 69% of Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist… This indicates a spiritual disaster, for the Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”
In response to this crisis, Bishop Robert Barron, wrote “This Is My Body: A Call To Eucharistic Revival.”
 

• In this brief text, Bishop Barron offers a threefold analysis of the Eucharist as sacred meal, sacrifice, and Real Presence
• The goal:  To help readers understand the sacrament of Jesus’ Body and Blood more thoroughly so that they might fall in love with Him more completely. (Excerpted from Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire.org)
• Books are free, only 110 pages, and available now at the back of church.
• Questions: Please feel free to contact Teresa Doyle-Smith at 781-878-0160 or Liz Davis at 781-871-1244.
• To watch the whole talk by Bishop Robert Barron on the Eucharist click here