Preparation for KofC Meeting this Tuesday, May 18th

Hello Brothers,

At our next KofC meeting this Tuesday, May 18th we will be starting our discussion on Part 1 of the book I Heard God Laugh - Part 1. For those that do not have the book, you can click on the link and download a scanned PDF of Part 1.

This is the book that Tom discussed at the last meeting and Father Don has been going through at St. Clare. We will be dedicating about 20 min of the meeting to this discussion. This book is a guide to help us encounter God in a powerful way and to help us start a habit of daily prayer. Our hope is that, by reading this book and going deeper with this guide, we truly learn how to pray.

Here are some possible discussion questions that have been recommended for you to think on as you read the first part:

Question 1: Matthew says that some dreams we had when we were younger were ill suited for us, and we were ill suited for them. Can you think of a dream you had or something that you really wanted when you were younger, but are glad it didn’t come to be?

Question 2: What do you remember being taught about prayer? Did you learn prayers in school? At home? Did anyone teach you how to pray?

Question 3: Matthew says in the book “In prayer we learn how to love and be loved, because we discover that we have been loved, are loved, and will continually be loved by God.” How have you experienced the love of God? Do you believe that God loves you as Matthew describes? Share a story of someone who loves unconditionally like God does in your own life.

Question 4: We each experience storms in our lives; how have you weathered storms in the past? After reading this part of the book, how do you think you will handle storms in the future? • So often we think that we can fix the storms in our own lives by just burrowing down from the wind and the rain. But if we have strong roots we will endure the storm. Do you feel like your faith has strong roots?

Meeting Link and Agenda will be sent out by Sunday Evening.