For
Catholic Men
Fire without a hearth burns the house down.
The second program in the trilogy. Ten weeks in the deposit of faith: the doctrinal foundation that gives your faith its structure, its staying power, and its ability to survive the hard seasons.
What It Is
Your heart has been set on fire, by the God who is Love, by the brothers who walked with you, by the sacraments you have begun to receive with new eyes. That fire is real. Protect it. But fire without a hearth burns the house down.
The Apostles who wrote the Acts you have been living did not stop at experience. They wrote letters. They articulated doctrine. They understood that a man who cannot say what he believes cannot defend it, cannot share it, and eventually cannot sustain it.
You will finish knowing not just that you believe, but what you believe and why.
Creed of the Apostles is ten weeks in the full inheritance the Apostles handed down: what the Church teaches about sin and grace, the moral life, the virtues, conscience, and the Last Things. Slightly more didactic than Acts, but never cold and never academic. Every doctrinal topic is anchored in real life, and every station brings a man one step closer to the one who can look his children in the eye and hand them something solid.
How Every Station Works
Every station follows the same rhythm, so the work is never abstract. It moves from a spark to a decision, and from the page into an ordinary week. Walk it self-paced, or with a small group of brothers moving through together.
A spark that opens the station and stirs the heart.
The core teaching, met as encounter rather than lecture.
Scripture, tradition, and reflection that press further in.
Prayer and honest self-examination before God.
One concrete step carried out of the session into real life.
The Journey
Ten stations in the deposit of faith. Each one plants a seed for Mission, noting where this doctrine becomes something a man will need to articulate, defend, or share.
“I Believe,” and here is what that costs.
Why God became a man, and why it changes everything.
Not a feeling, a Person.
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and yours.
Why the world is broken, and why we are not beyond repair.
Mortal, venial, capital: a map of the moral landscape.
Faith, hope, charity, prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance.
Not feelings, formation.
Seven encounters, each one unrepeatable.
Death, judgment, purgatory, heaven, hell, and why they make Monday matter.
Begin
Creed uses the same five-layer structure as Acts, self-paced or in a group of brothers. Tell us where you are and we will help you take the next step.
Get in TouchYou know what you believe. Now go and give it away.