Participants' Forum

While our instructors make every effort to allocate class time for questions, realities of time and numbers prevent every question from being answered. Students may also ask questions via email sent to DLI@straphael.org. The OEC will obtain an answer to the question, either from the instructor or another reliable source. The questions and answers are posted here.

• One of the hardest concepts to explain in RCIA is "grave matter," constituting one of the three conditions necessary for mortal sin.  What is a good explanation of "grave matter"?
• I have concerns with the Lectio Divina method of prayer that lay people are encouraged to try.  I think a person should have spent some time with Holy Scripture before he is encouraged to  pick short passages from the whole and try to apply it to himself.
• The Four Gospels: Some Comparative Overview Charts
  A resource submitted by DLI participant Jacek Cianciarra pertaining to the four Gospels. He offers that "Although some problems exist within these charts, they are quite interesting."
• Is the Catechism infallible?
  What parts are infallible?
  Are we as lay faithful required to obey all pertinent commands?
• How do I explain to a non-believer that the 72 books of the Bible are divinely inspired truth, while other religious writings, such as  the Koran, the Book of Morman, and other gospels not included in the  72, are not inerrant in teaching the truths of salvation?
• Some discussion about the O.T. Scripture class...
• A question about temperament...
• A question about hermeneutics...
• Why can others follow along without paying?