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Restore the Conversation: Real Prayer

God wants to speak with you. Maybe you feel that your prayer life is lacking or perhaps you don’t have a prayer life and want to start.  Perhaps when you come to prayer, you think, “well now what?” Let’s go back to the basics: God wants a personal relationship with you and prayer is how it happens. Come and restore your relationship and friendship with God and learn how to continually be restored in friendship with Him.

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Restore Peace

Life is busy – and it only seems to be getting busier. Amid the chaos, anxiety, and lack of control, God has a plan; and that plan is one of peace, simplicity, trust, and surrender. As life attempts to toss us about, we can learn to make Jesus our anchor so that we can experience His peace that surpasses all understanding.

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Restore the Conversation: Real Prayer

God wants to speak with you. Maybe you feel that your prayer life is lacking or perhaps you don’t have a prayer life and want to start.  Perhaps when you come to prayer, you think, “well now what?” Let’s go back to the basics: God wants a personal relationship with you and prayer is how it happens. Come and restore your relationship and friendship with God and learn how to continually be restored in friendship with Him.

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Workshop Q&A: Tap here to ask a question!

 

 

Restore the Conversation: Real Prayer

God wants to speak with you. Maybe you feel that your prayer life is lacking or perhaps you don’t have a prayer life and want to start.  Perhaps when you come to prayer, you think, “well now what?” Let’s go back to the basics: God wants a personal relationship with you and prayer is how it happens. Come and restore your relationship and friendship with God and learn how to continually be restored in friendship with Him.

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Workshop Q&A: Tap here to ask a question!

 

 

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Magnificat is a spiritual guide to help you develop your prayer life, grow in your spiritual life, find a way to a more profound love for Christ, and participate in the holy Mass with greater fervor.

Magnificat is a monthly publication designed for daily use, to encourage both liturgical and personal prayer. It can be used to follow daily Mass and can also be read at home or wherever you find yourself for personal or family prayer.

Every day, in a convenient, pocket-sized format, Magnificat offers beautiful prayers for both morning and evening drawn from the treasures of the Liturgy of the Hours, the official texts of daily Mass, meditations written by spiritual giants of the Church and more contemporary authors, essays on the lives of the saints of today and yesterday, and articles giving valuable spiritual insight into masterpieces of sacred art.

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All the resources are free, including the lessons, training resources, and support materials are can be found at https://steubenvilleconferences.com/discipleship-quads/.

On that page, you will find all the resources, sign up to be a quad leader, or sign up to learn more. If you have a particular question, you can email us disicpleship@franciscan.edu

 

“I think my personal growth in a relationship with God is encouraged and enhanced by my

participation in DQ. I see both the struggles and successes of the group members, and I am

held accountable for my efforts in furthering my relationship with God. I am more confident that with the help of the Holy Spirit I will be able to share my faith with others in my church

community and in my personal and family relationships. Without the group and the DQ materials, I don’t think I would be learning and exploring God’s purpose for my life.” – Michele S.

“Although we’re only about a month in, I have seen tremendous fruit from the DQ program. The small size creates a trust and an accountability that is helping us to grow in our faith as well as to grow together as brothers in Christ. Our work together in the program is stoking a fire in all of us that I’m confident will carry all of us through to make disciples of others.” – Joseph

“Sharing my daily journey with others and hearing their daily journey enables me to see more

clearly God at work in my everyday life and in others’ lives. I believe God uses other people to speak to us. Having a trusted community where faith and his Word is discussed lets me hear God’s voice calling to me, nudging me to a closer relationship with him. It also gives me a safe space to practice sharing the Good News (not something that comes naturally) with the goal of being able to do that in the broader areas of my life.

“Discipleship Quads have ignited my faith, revived my love of the Church, and begun my

discernment of how I can ‘pass this on’ next year with a new group. It provides a group that

holds me accountable in my faith journey.

“It strengthens the relational ministry and evangelism part of the Catholic Church.”- Wendy S.

“When I first heard about Discipleship Quads, I thought, “that group sounds too small” and “a

year is too long a commitment.” Now that we are on week six, I absolutely LOVE it, and those

earlier concerns are gone. Four is the perfect number; everyone shares, and there is a true

feeling of trust. I have been in prayer groups for over five years running, and I have never

experienced anything as meaningful to me spiritually as this program. It is incredibly intimate

and fruitful. Already, these women know my heart and my struggles better than many people I

have known for years. I look forward to our meetings with great anticipation and joy, and I am

excited to see how He uses us down the road to help rebuild His Church. – Laura W.

 

The benefit of a Discipleship Quad to each individual person is knowing the love of Jesus Christ and deepening a relationship with him. Those who have experienced that love and made the decision to follow Christ would never go back to a life without him. The reason for this is that

their lives were changed forever after knowing his unconditional love. The truth is that this life is available to everyone who genuinely wants to grow in faith and have a relationship with our Lord and Savior. The Discipleship Quad is a proven way to help others experience such a relationship.

Jesus is critical to our ongoing growth in faith and, as such, our peace, joy, and fulfillment in life. Community—fellowship with those on the same journey—is also important. As part of a Discipleship Quad, you will get to learn with and from others, pray for and with one another, and share life with those who will become good friends, in an otherwise incredibly busy and complicated world.

 

A Discipleship Quad is for any person who has a desire to grow in faith as a Catholic and will commit to adhere to all components of the Discipleship Quad Commitment (see Page 5). A Quad can be made up of people at any level of spiritual maturity, from long-time, committed Catholics to those who are just beginning their spiritual journey with Jesus. In addition to growing as disciples, Quad members should desire to be formed as disciple-makers.

A Discipleship Quad is a group of four people who journey together as disciples through weekly gatherings of fellowship, ongoing conversion, and learning. This 12-month path of accompaniment fosters growth through prayer, accountability, and authentic relationships. The process may take a few months longer than a year, depending on how often the group needs to reschedule and how quickly they go through the material.

All members of a Quad should be of the same sex to create an atmosphere of intimacy and vulnerability for sharing. Each Quad has a coordinator who serves the temporal needs of the Quad and helps facilitate conversations by modeling authenticity. The Quad coordinator is the person who starts the Quad.

This process of discipleship is initiated by the Quad coordinator, though the journey that takes place among the four people in the Quad is done in community. It could be described as peer-to-peer discipling, in that it does not have a hierarchical structure in which one leader passes along his or her knowledge to the others. Rather, a Discipleship Quad is made up of four people who are committed to growing closer to Jesus as his disciples by learning together, sharing life in community, and creating a place for accountability in this journey.