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April 1, 2025

CIA-FMO presents Shroud Encounter for Holy Week on April 14th and 15th at Xavier Fine Arts Theatre

SHROUD ENCOUNTER, the final presentation in CIA-FMO’s 2024-2025 Investigate Your Faith series, is set for HOLY WEEK, Monday, April 14th and Tuesday, April 15th at 7 p.m. at the Xavier Fine Arts Theatre in Appleton.

This special two-day event brings back RUSS BREAULT, one of the world’s top Shroud of Turin experts, to explore the most studied artifact in history, a 2,000-year old linen burial cloth many believe wrapped the body of Jesus after his crucifixion and death.

No tickets needed! Free will offering encouraged. For details, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/ciafmo/events-1.

March 7, 2025

CIA-FMO presents Spiritual Warfare – Armor for a world gone mad! on March 17th at Xavier Fine Arts Theatre

The next event in our 2024-2025 Investigate Your Faith series, Spiritual Warfare – Armor for a world gone mad!

Join us on Monday, March 17th at 7 p.m. at the Xavier Fine Arts Theatre. This event brings back KYLE CLEMENT, a veteran of 20+ years training Catholic priests in the practice of exorcism, to discuss the very real battle between good and evil and how we can protect ourselves and our families.

No tickets needed! Free will offering encouraged. For details, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/ciafmo/events-1.

January 31, 2025

The Screwtape Texts: A Devil’s Dialogue with His Temper in Training by Deacon Timothy J. Stevenson

The Screwtape Texts: A Devil’s Dialogue with His Tempter in Training make The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis accessible to a whole new generation of readers.

In this book and study, Lewis’ classic work has been reimagined in text-message format as a dialogue between a senior demon and his student.

Wormwood, the tempter in training, makes comments and asks Screwtape questions, which sometimes get him into trouble. His questions bring additional clarity to the reader, who is not meant to see the strategies and tactics used by the devil against them.

This translation expands the scope of weapons used against the “human vermin” to include things like smartphones and other distractions.

Each series of text messages (letters):

Points out spiritual warfare tactics used by the devil
Provides relevant Scripture and Church teaching
Offers counterattack strategies to use against the devil’s tactics
Includes thought provoking reflection questions for individual and small group studies

For more information, please visit: www.TimothyJStevenson.com.

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025

Join Fr. John Girotti on a 12-Day Pilgrimage in October of 2025

POLAND & LITHUANIA – Lands of Mercy, Lands of the Saints, Lands of Mary

All are welcome to join Spiritual Director, Fr. John Girotti and experience a 12-day pilgrimage to Poland, Lithuania, Krakow, Auschwitz, Zakopane Mounts, Czestochowa, Warsaw and Lithuania from October 13th through October 24, 2025.

Download the brochure and register today! onmiss.io/2025polandlithuania

January 7, 2025January 7, 2025

January Explanation Station – St. John Nepomucene Adult Faith Formation

Sometimes you will see priests dressed in long black vestments called cassocks. An interesting fact about cassocks, is that they have 33 buttons which represent the 33 years Jesus lived.

December 11, 2024

December Explanation Station – St. John Nepomucene Adult Faith Formation

Pope Francis on Advent

Advent,” he said, “is a moment of grace to take off our masks – every one of us has them – and line up with those who are humble, to be freed from our presumption of being self-sufficient, to go to confess our sins (the hidden ones) to welcome God’s pardon, and to ask forgiveness from those whom we have offended. This is how to begin a new life.

November 5, 2024November 5, 2024

November Explanation Station – St. John Nepomucene Adult Faith Formation

The ACTS Prayer Method

The acronym ACTS stands for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication. This model of prayer prioritizes our time with God so we first approach Him with reverence (adoration), then repent of the sin in our life (confession), then express our gratitude to Him for all He has done (thanksgiving), and finally submit to Him our requests (supplication).

A great habit to incorporate into your daily prayer life.

October 15, 2024

October Explanation Station – St. John Nepomucene Adult Faith Formation

A great tip for building your faith is to find a good Catholic Community to join or at least a few good Catholic friends to encourage you on. We need community. It is the reason Jesus gathered His 12 Apostles together. When He sent them out, He sent them in pairs. It is not good for us to be alone, even more so as we strive to be disciples in a world that lives so contrary to the Gospel.

Find friendship here at St. John Nepomucene by seeking good Catholic friends or looking into one of our amazing ministries. There is always a place for you here!

September 17, 2024

September Explanation Station – St. John Nepomucene Adult Faith Formation

We need to be constantly reminded that “the Church is not a man-made society of like-minded people who are trying to live Christian lives and to exert some kind of Christian influence upon the world. The Catholic Church is a community created and called by God.

Its task is evangelization and salvation: to be an instrument of God’s work in the world focused in the saving and liberating mission of Jesus Christ. It must, therefore, look to the Holy Spirit for the power to accomplish it.

Source: USCCB

August 14, 2024

August Explanation Station – St. John Nepomucene Adult Faith Formation

The Catholic Church is the oldest and largest branch of Christianity, with roots in Rome and a history that goes back almost 2,000 years. It was the only Christian church for the first 1,000 years of Christianity, and all other Christian churches today can trace their lineage back to it.

The Catholic Church is led by the pope, who is also the Bishop of Rome, and rules from Vatican City, a separate country within Rome, Italy.