The GIFT - Into the Heart Leader's Guide

Product Description The Leader's Guide provides study leaders with everything contained in the Student workbook, plus helpful tips on facilitating an Into the Heart Study, suggested prayers, questions & answers for discussion, and more. This guide is designed to accompany the corresponding lessons from the DVDs or CDs. Into the Heart: A Journey Through the Theology of the Body is a 16-part, eight-hour study. Building upon An Introduction to the Theology of the Body, Into the Heart will move you deeper into this life-changing message, enabling you to apply and integrate it into every aspect of your life. Here you will be given the tools needed to develop the sacramental worldview that is so crucial to living an authentic human sexuality. As Christopher says, The Theology of the Body provides a lens through which to view the whole mystery of human life, therefore leaving no part of our world untouched. In Into the Heart, he guides us on a life-changing journey, as we begin to move the rich teaching from our head to our heart, which is our our deepest interior self where we are alone with ourselves and God. Take the transforming Into the Heart journey and you will discover the mystical key that opens the holy door to deep intimacy with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Along the way, you ll learn what saints and mystics alike have always known: a life of ecstasy and deep union with God is not only possible - it is actually a lot closer than you think! Into the Heart contains sixteen, half-hour sessions. Titles include: A Vision of Hope for the Heart Nuptial Union: A Call to Deep Intimacy with God The Heart: A Battlefield between Love and Lust The Ultimate Fulfillment of the Body Celibacy and Sexuality The Great Mystery of Marriage Singing the Song of the Body ...And much more About the Author Christopher West is a research fellow and faculty member of the Theology of the Body Institute. He is also one of the most sought after speakers in the Church today, having delivered more than 1000 public lectures on 4 continents, in 9 countries, and in over 150 American cities. His books Good News About Sex & Marriage, Theology of the Body Explained, and Theology of the Body for Beginners have become Catholic best sellers. Christopher has also lectured on a number of prestigious faculties, offering graduate and undergraduate courses at St John Vianney Seminary in Denver, the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and Creighton University s Institute for Priestly Formation in Omaha. Hundreds of thousands have heard him on national radio programs and even more have seen him defending the faith on programs such as Scarborough Country, Fox and Friends, and At Large with Geraldo Rivera. Of all his titles, Christopher is most proud to call himself a devoted husband and father. He and his wife Wendy have four children and live in Lancaster County, PA.