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(This page was updated 9/8/22.  Check back often for continued "tweaks.")     
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!    You may register via one of 3 ways: 
1)  complete registration form found in parish gathering space
2)  Email your selections to:  TFlippo@olmc-osprey.org
3)  Phone the parish at (941) 966-0807 x 305.

Weekly Sessions
Sundays
Sunday Morning between The Masses
9:30—10:00am, Rms 4-6.  Begins September 18th
Facilitator:  T. Flippo
Coffee and conversation while viewing excerpts from the TV series, “The Chosen.” Season 1.
 
Mondays  Formation through digital lectures
Fall 2022:   “St. Augustine’s Confessions”
Weekly, 10:30am—Noon.  Begins October 17th, Rms 4-6.  Facilitator:  T. Flippo, M.A., M.A.
Part of The Great Courses lectures.  A 10-session series with Prof. William Cook on Saint Augustine of Hippo, bishop and doctor of the Church.
 
Winter 2023:   “Dante’s Divine Comedy”
Weekly starting January 9, 2023, from  10:30am—Noon, Rm 4. 
Facilitator:  T. Flippo, M.A., M.A.
Part of The Great Courses lectures with Prof. William Cook.  Set at Eastertide in 1300 AD, a superb series as we journey toward, and enter into, Lent and Easter.
 
Tuesdays  Formation through small groups
Breaking Open the Word
Weekly, 10:30am—11:30am, in Library. 
Facilitator:  T. Flippo, M.A., M.A.
Read and reflect on Sacred Scripture and spiritual texts such as the writings of Thomas Merton or “Alive in the Word” (Little Rock Scripture Study).  All are welcome.

• Sept 21:  “The Good Pope:  John XXIII”
• Sept 28:  “Paul VI:  The Pope in the Tempest”
• Oct 19:   “Karol:  The Man Who Became Pope”
• Oct 26:  “The Two Popes” (Benedict XVI & Francis)

• Nov. 30:  “It Happened on 5th Avenue” (1947) 
• Dec 14:   “Amahl and the Night Visitors” (1963)
• Dec 21:   “The Young Messiah” (2016)

• Jan 25:  “The Drop Box" (2015, documentary)
• Feb 8:  “The Innocents” (2016; a French convent)
• Feb 25:  “Of Gods and Men” (2011; Trappist monks)
• April 5:  “Son of God" (2014)

• Oct 12:   “The Blessings of Pets:   Canines for Heroes.”   A nonprofit that provides trained service dogs to Veterans with PTSD or traumatic brain injury
• Nov 3:   “Honoring Our Veterans with St. Michael the Archangel.”  With parishioners Lou Schwartz, Andrew Magliolo and Mike La Vecchia
• Jan 25, 2023:   “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” with Jewish Federation of Sarasota and Holocaust Survivor Felicia Liban, a hidden child in Poland
• Feb 15:  “Agape Love and The Sacred Arts”  (TBA.  Watch for information after the first of the year.)
• May 4:    Part II:  Laudato si and Marie Selby Botanical Gardens with parishioner and COO, Wendy Deming

• Oct 5:   “The Heart of Perfection:  How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God’s” by Colleen Carrol Campbell. 
• Nov 2  (Native American Heritage Month):   “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann. 
• Dec 7  (Advent):   “The Way of Serenity:  Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer” by Fr. Jonathan Morris. 
• Jan 11  (Respect Life):  “Survivor: An Abortion Survivor's Surprising Story of Choosing Forgiveness and Finding Redemption” by Claire Culwell.
• Feb 1  (Black History Month):  “Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature” by Farah Jasmine Griffin. 
• Mar 1  (Lent):  “Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story” by Sally Read.  
• Mar 29  (Lent):   “Something Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It” by Jennifer Fulwiler (Afterward by Cardinal Dolan).
• May 3  (Mary):  “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God” by Ginny Kubitz Moyer.