Scripture Study Group

There are three scripture study groups at Christ the King Parish that each meet once per week at the following times:

• Mondays at 9:00 am
• Tuesdays at 9:30 am
• Thursdays at 1:15 pm

Pick the time that works for you and join us !

For more information or to download current and recent Celebrating the Word study materials, please visit the Congregation of the Resurrection website.

Our weekly study is based on the scriptures prescribed for the coming Sunday mass. We use the "Celebrating the Word" model that allows people to make connections between their life stories and the Gospel Story, and in the process, experience the presence and power of God's own Spirit.

Celebrating the Word is a process model for faith sharing groups that is designed to replicate the Emmaus encounter*. Most of us can identify with the plight of those two disciples. We know their experience. We have been there. And we need a place and a process that will allow us, as a faith community on a regular basis, to make connections between our life stories and the Gospel Story. As with those two disciples, we are assured that when we come together in faith and trust to make connections between our life stories and the Gospel Story, we too will come to experience the presence and power of God's own Spirit: "Were not our hearts burning within us when He opened the scriptures to us."

* Emmaus encounter: The Emmaus appearance of the "risen Christ" is unique to Luke. At the point where the other gospels have more to say about "the women", the author of Luke introduces new characters. The "risen Christ" appears to two disciples, walks and talks with them, joins them for dinner and yet throughout remains unrecognized. Jesus remains unrecognized even at close quarters. Only in an instant, when he breaks bread and disappears, do the two disciples realize it was the Lord.