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Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, offers the September 22, 2012, Saturdays with the Saints lecture. Sponsored by the Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, Saturdays with the Saints is a lecture series on selected home football weekends.
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By John C. Cavadini, McGrath-Cavadini Director of the Institute for Church Life
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Seed of the Church: Telling the Story of Today's Christian Martyrs
The Institute for Church Life's upcoming conference, November 4-6, 2012, intends to raise consciousness inside and outside the Church regarding the widespread persecution of Christians around the world and to explore how the Church has responded and might respond vigorously and faithfully in the future. Find out more and register today! ________________________________________
Notre Dame Conversations
ND Conversations is a new Alumni Association academic program designed to have alumni, parents and friends from around the  world gather together online and discuss the pressing issues facing society today. Engage intellectually and continue the Notre Dame tradition of life long learning. The program is led by Notre Dame faculty and the first session will be begin in November 2012. More information
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Course Participants
New Courses for the New Year
The new Six Tasks of Catechesis course begins January 7, 2013. The six tasks of catechesis constitute a unified whole by which catechesis seeks to achieve its objective: the formation of disciples of Jesus (National Directory for Catechesis (NDC), #20). This course will address the six tasks of catechesis as introduced in the General Directory for Catechesis (1997) and affirmed in the National Directory for Catechesis (2005).
Additional courses in development:
The Liturgical Year
Christian Doctrine for Catechists
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What's New at STEP?
Upcoming Courses
Courses Starting on January 7
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The Church
A Few (More) Good Men and Women
by Carolyn Pirtle, M.M., M.S.M. Assistant Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy
The Church has many reasons to celebrate, but this week, there are seven new ones: on October 21, Pope Benedict XVI canonized  seven men and women saints at a ceremony in Rome attended by more than 80,000 people from across the world. What struck me about this particular group of men and women is how diverse they are: although some of them are from the same time period or the same geographic region, each life story is a unique, beautiful example of how God's grace can make even the most seemingly ordinary person an extraordinary witness to the Good News of Christ. Here are brief(ish) biographies of each of our seven new heroes and heroines in the faith. May the examples of these, our brothers and sisters in Christ, inspire us all to seek and follow the unique path of holiness that God has designed for each of us.
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Year of Faith Resources
The United States Conference of Catho lic Bishops offers a plethora of resources to help celebrate and study during the Year of Faith.
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Celebrate November, Month of the Dead
"Month of the Dead"
by Dorothy Day
It is so hard to find a balance.
We have the knowledge that this life is a passageway to another fuller life which is to come, that we are heirs to a richness and a joy beyond all telling, and that we are working toward a new heaven and a new earth, where all is love and peace, where justice dwells. We also know that what we do now will count, that we are exercising our faculties to this end, and that, although sometimes our work seems futile and without result in these fields of justice and peace and love,...we know that is all preparation, like that of a farmer, and God will give the results, the increase, the crop. If we do not do this work, we are dead souls, no matter how vital our bodies, and there is no health in us. Continue reading...
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