Adult Faith Formation
Discipleship is an ongoing process for everyone and we continue to offer opportunities for all adults to grow in their faith. Please check our bulletin and follow our social media for current updates.
Saint Mary Magdalene Parish Library
We have a wide variety of theological and spiritual books, Bible commentaries, and lives of the saints, as well as DVD and book studies that can be rented out for group use at the parish or in homes. Please contact Nicole Carlson for options and recommendations.
FORMED.org
FORMED is a multi-media platform offering countless ways to continue growing in your faith by watching or listening to content at home, during workouts, or during your commute! Our parish subscription gives you free access to Bible Studies, Studies on other faith-based topics, prayer resources, daily and weekly reflections to help you establish a more consistent prayer life, audio books, talks, films, shows for kids, and more!
To sign up for free:
- Visit signup.formed.org
- Enter our parish name or zip code
Christ in our Neighborhood
Are you looking for a way to reawaken your faith? Are you interested in learning more about Jesus? Do you desire to study the sacred scriptures? Do you want to meet friends in your parish or rekindle old friendships? Christ in Our Neighborhood is for you! Participants in the Christ in Our Neighborhood program are invited, through the weekly study of Scripture, to come to know Christ better and make Him known. Start your own small group with a couple of friends or neighbors. Meet at your home or a coffee shop. Let us know if you need space to meet at the church – we will try to accommodate!
Christ in Our Neighborhood - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix (dphx.org)
Called & Gifted Training – coming soon!
The Called & Gifted™ Discernment Process, offered through Catherine of Siena Institute has been used since 1993 by over 200,000 lay, ordained, and religious Catholics and other Christians around the world. It is designed to help Christians discern the presence of charisms in their lives. Charisms, or spiritual gifts, are special abilities given to all Christians by the Holy Spirit to give them power both to represent Christ and to be a channel of God's goodness for people. Whether extraordinary or ordinary, all charisms ought to be exercised in the service of God (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2003). All three parts of the process are necessary for discovering where you are gifted.
- Part One is the Called and Gifted workshop, which lays the foundation for the beginning of discernment. During the initial Called & Gifted workshop series the participants will take the Catholic Spiritual Gifts Inventory.
- Part Two is the one hour gifts interview, an invaluable part of the process.
- Part Three helps you begin discernment in the real world. It will teach you how to:
- develop charism experiments
- evaluate your results
- identify ways you learned to control life as a child that get in the way of using your charisms as an adult.
