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The theme this year is “The Fight of Faith”. The Old Testament catalogued 100 physical battles, a foreshadowing of the spiritual warfare of today. We will study how to become soldiers for Christ (2Tim2). As men, as leaders of our families, we are called to be leaders in the struggle. Our Lady of Fatima told us that the heart of this battle is the family. This spiritual warfare began at the very beginning. Instead of protecting his woman Adam stood by and said nothing when she was tempted by the snake. He was a coward which is part of our are inheritance as men. But we're not to be afraid because God said “I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers; they will strike at your head while you strike at their heel.” As off springs of the woman, our Blessed Mother, we too are called to strike at the head of the evil one. As St. Paul tells us in Ephesians 6 our battle is not with flesh and blood but “with the principalities, with the powers, with rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.”
The men of TMIY will continue their quest of becoming men after God's own heart in the spring semester. We have taken St Joseph as our model – the head of the Holy Family – a strong, silent, faithful man. Truly a man after God’s own heart. It was Joseph who taught his foster child, Jesus, how to be a good Jewish man. Next to the blessed Virgin Mary Joseph is the most powerful saint in heaven. Because of his docility to the will of the Father he is “Terror of Demons”. And he has many other titles, Pillar of families, Comfort of the Afflicted, Hope of the Sick, Patron of the Dying, Protector of the Holy Church, etc.
Please join us for the 13 week Spring Semester. We meet every Wednesday in the family center from 5:45 to 7:15 AM with breakfast and fellowship at 5:30 am. Our meetings include an excellent video lesson followed by small group meetings - “As iron sharpens iron so men sharpen men”. What is said in our small group meetings stays in our small groups.
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