Adult Faith Formation
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Grief Group begins Thursday, October 16, 2025
Grieving with Great HOPE is a SIX-WEEK grief support workshop using a video on-demand format. It offers a prayerful, practical and personal approach for anyone who is mourning the loss of a loved one. If you have lost a spouse, a child (including pregnancy loss), a grandchild, a parent, another family member or a friend, you are encouraged to attend. Presenters will include, two priests, as well as John and Sandy O’Shaughnessy from Good Mourning Ministry, a Catholic bereavement organization. Contact Dcn. Jeff Arner for registration information. We will begin on Thursdays for this 6-week course on October 16th from 2 to 4 pm in the Guadalupe meeting room.
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Next Morning Bible Study Begins Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Reading the Bible should bring us closer to Christ but understanding it is often difficult. The good news is that you can understand the Bible—and the newly refilmed Bible Timeline program makes it easy. This twenty-four-part study will take you on a guided journey through salvation history, while offering fresh, practical tools to help you read and appreciate the Bible.
Author Jeff Cavins, alongside many other trusted Catholic presenters, shows you how fourteen of the Bible’s narrative books tell the story of salvation from beginning to end and gives you the keys to unpack the amazing narrative thread woven throughout the Bible. The program also features brand-new presenters:
Fr. Mike Schmitz
Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio
Dr. Jeffrey Morrow
And many more!
In its approach to studying Scripture, The Bible Timeline divides the Bible into twelve time periods that make it easier to follow its narrative thread. Using a unique color-coded chart, you will learn about the major people, places, and events of the Bible and discover how they all come together to reveal the remarkable story of our Catholic Faith. The presenters will guide you through more than fifty extraordinary sites across several key locations:
The Holy Land, Egypt, Rome, and more!
St. Elizabeth Seton will offer The Bible Timeline beginning Tuesday, November 11 from 9 to 11 am. Participants will meet every week in Seton Hall to view an engaging video presentation, followed by a time of lively group discussion and fellowship. For more information or to register, contact Dcn. Jeff Arner at 623-866-5221 or jarner@sescc.org.
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The Mission of the Family begins Wednesday, October 15, 2025
The Mission of the Family Formation Study
We are excited to share with you a video study put on by the Knights of Columbus for Couples entering and already married. St. John Paul II said, “The future of the world and the Church passes through the family.”
Husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, you are called to have great hearts here, counter-cultural and brave. You can build something better, freer, more generous and nobler, beginning in your own home.
Come and encounter ways that we are called to have a family rooted in God with his protection and strength to guide us through anything.
Session 1 – Oct. 15 The Catholic Family in a Post-Christian World
Session 2 – Oct. 22 Marriage: The foundation of the Family
Session 3 – Oct. 29 The Gift of Children
Session 4 – Nov. 12 Healing in the Family
Session 5 – Nov. 19 Creating a Legacy of Faith
We are beginning this series on Wednesday, October 15th in the church at 6:20 pm. It will only be one hour for each of the scheduled Wednesday’s. If you have any questions, please contact Dcn. Jeff Arner at 623-866-5221 or jarner@sescc.org.
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Order of Christian Initiation of Adults
If you been curious about the Roman Catholic Church and how it might fit for you in your faith journey, and/or perhaps, you have been Baptized but haven’t received the sacraments of Confirmation and/or Holy Eucharist and would like to complete your Sacraments of Initiation. Please contact Dcn. Jeff Arner for an appointment at 623-866-5221 or jarner@sescc.org.
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Come join “That Man Is You”. This group is focused on forming and strengthening Catholic men in faith and virtue as missionary disciples by drawing them into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer, formation, and fraternity. We meet weekly for one hour each Saturday in Seton Hall at 6:30 am. For more information, please contact Dcn. Jeff Arner.
Email Dcn. Jeff Download Flyer
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For more information, please contact:
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Deacon Jeff Arnerjarnersescc.orgDirector, Faith Formation & Evangelization
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Adult Faith Formation is the lifelong process of finding and falling in love with God in the midst of our human lives. Every one of us, by virtue of our Baptism, is on a life-long journey of faith. Consequently, Adult Faith Formation has as its purpose to support, nourish, and challenge adults as they explore their faith, experience its power, grow in relationship with God. Thus, we strive here at St. Elizabeth Seton, to offer, plan, and implement a wide variety of faith forming programs and opportunities for all adults.
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In their document Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us, the US Bishops renewed a commitment to fostering faith formation for adults. Since we all are continually being formed in our faith as we walk our journeys of life, a renewed commitment to adult faith formation necessitates a need for quality programming and a variety of opportunities for all adults.
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- Inviting and enabling ongoing conversion to Jesus in holiness of life:
- helping adults acquire an attitude of conversion to the Lord
- leading adults to repentance of sin, reconciliation through the sacraments and deepening faith in Jesus
- Promoting and supporting active membership in the Christian community:
- helping adults make a conscious and firm decision to live the faith through membership in the Christian community
- inviting and supporting baptized adults in their co-responsibility for the Church’s mission and life
- Calling and preparing adults to act as disciples in mission to the world
- inviting baptized adults to evangelization and justice in the world
- Inviting and enabling ongoing conversion to Jesus in holiness of life:
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