LYFE is a catechesis and catechetical formation program designed with College Students and Young Adults in mind. The program teaches how to think like a Catholic and to live your life in accord with the TRUTH that comes only through an encounter with Jesus Christ and His Church. The goal of the program is to form disciples of Jesus to teach others the truths of the Faith.
The Diocese of Raleigh recognizes LYFE as an approved program for formation of and certification as a Master Catechist. For more information on how you can enroll, please contact Rob directly using the Contact Rob link above.
Spring 2022–Prayer and the Interior Life
Session 1: Introduction to Prayer and the Interior Life
Session 2: The Infused Virtues
Fall 2021–Catholic Moral Thought
Session 1: Introduction to the Moral Life
Session 2: Fundamental Moral Principles
Session 4: The Cardinal Virtues
Session 7: Morality of Life and Death
Session 9: Catholic Social Teaching
Session 10: The Kingship of Christ and the Separation of Church and State
Fall 2021–Spiritual Formation using Lorenzo Scupoli’s Spiritual Combat
Session 1: Scupoli’s Principles for Battle
Session 2: Humility and Self-Distrust
Session 3: Hope as a Spiritual Weapon
Session 4: Spiritual Weapons–Prayer, Fasting and Almsigiving
Summer 2021–Men’s Theology of the Body
Session 1: Introduction to TOB
Session 3: Historical Man Part 1
Session 4: Historical Man Part 2
Session 6: Theology of the Body and Humanae Vitae
Spring 2021–Catholicism and Evolution
Session 1: Darwin, Darwinism and the Fallout
Session 2: What has the Church Really Said?
Session 3: Evolution as a Metaphysical Impossibility
Session 4: Evolution as Dubious Science
Spring 2021–The Sacraments
Session 1: Introduction to Grace
Session 2: Introduction to the Sacraments
Session 7: The Eucharist as Sacrifice
Session 8: Anointing of the Sick
Fall 2020–The Creed
Introductory Session: Divine Revelation
Session 1: The Content of Faith and the Act of Faith
Session 2: I Believe in God the Father…
Session 3: Creation and the Angels
Session 4: The Creation of Man and the Fall
Session 5: God the Son (recording lost)
Session 6: Mary, the Mother of God
Session 7: God the Holy Spirit
Session 8: The Communion of Saints
Session 9: The Four Last Things
Summer 2020–Screwtape Letters (first 18 letters)
Letters 16-18
Letters 20-25
Letters 25-31
Spring 2020–Soul of the Apostolate (Audio commentary)
Spring 2020–Catholic Social Teaching and the American Republic
Session 1: Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdom of Men
Session 2: Columbus, Cortez and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
Session 3: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching
Session 4: Catholic Principles in the American Founding
Session 5: The Battle for the True Creed
Session 6: Democracy, Socialism and the Church
Session 7: The Love of God and the Love of Mammon
Fall 2019–Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction: Philosophy as the Handmaiden of Theology
Session 1: Philosophy as the Beginning of Wisdom–Philosophy of Nature
Session 2: Philosophy or Science…or both?
Session 3: Philosophical Psychology
Session 7: The Existence of God and His Nature
Session 9: The Problem of Evil
Spring 2019–Church Fathers
Session 1: Introduction to the Church Fathers
Session 2: St. Paul and the Lives of the Early Christians
Session 3: Pope St. Clement and the Structure of the Early Church
Session 4; St. Ignatius of Antioch and the Mass of the Early Christians
Session 5: St. Justin Martyr: When Athens Met Jerusalem
more recordings coming…
Fall 2018–Theology of the Body
Session 1: The Pill and the Antidote: Humanae Vitae and Theology of the Body
Sesson 2: Love and Responsibility
Session 3: Introduction to the Theology of the Body
Spring 2018–Spiritual and Mystical Theology
Session 1:Grace
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Grace.pptx
Session 2: Our Work in Prayer: Prayer and Human Psychology
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Psychology and the Spiritual Life
Additional Resources on Temperaments
Conrad Hock The Four Temperaments and the Spiritual Life
Session 3: The Stages of the Interior Life and Prayer
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Levels of Prayer
Additional Resources on Mental Prayer
St. Alphonsus Liguori on Mental Prayer
Session 4: Penance and Mortification
Cardinal Mercier’s Mortification Plan
Session 5: The Seven Deadly Sins and Predominant Fault
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Seven Deadly Sins
Librovox recordings of St. Therese
Session 6: Spiritual Warfare
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Spiritual Warfare
Session 7: Infused and Theological Virtues
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Theological and Infused Virtues
Session 8: Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Session 9: Discernment
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Discernment
Session 10: Mary and the Interior Life
NCSU LYFE Spring 2018–Mary and the Interior Life