{"id":4138,"date":"2018-12-01T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=4138"},"modified":"2022-02-19T05:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T10:48:31","slug":"bible-101-a-crash-course-in-scripture-part-iv-advent-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/bible-101-a-crash-course-in-scripture-part-iv-advent-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible 101: A Crash Course in Scripture, Part IV &#8211; Advent 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XmMfTsgoWzM?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Katie discusses Solomon and Jesus\u2019 coming. She maps out the connections from Abraham and how in the end God provided a sacrifice to not just save the Jews but to save us all. He came to establish the Church and the sacraments and how we should acknowledge this and keep a close relationship to it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2018-advent-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"downloads\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"audio-mp3\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/08-Katie-Patrizio-Bible-101-Part-IV.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-study-guide-pdf\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Bible-101-A-Crash-Course-in-Scripture-Part-IV-Study-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-transcript-pdf\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Bible-101-Part-IV-Katie-Patrizio-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"reflective-study-guide-questions\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cMy yoke is easy and my burden is light\u201d <\/p><cite><em> Matthew 11:30<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Katie speaks of the Israelite\u2019s deep longing for the messiah and how they were in a constant state of waiting for the messiah. Have you ever experienced this deep longing for God? If so, what was that experience?<br><br><\/li><li>We learn about Solomon who was a good and peaceful king until he abandons God and worships pagan gods and does sinful things at the end of his life. Has there ever been a time in your life when you abandoned God or lived in a state of sinfulness like Solomon did? If so, reflect on that time and how you did or could come to begin life anew with Jesus this Advent.<br><br><\/li><li>Katie said, \u201cBethlehem in Hebrew means \u201cHouse of bread.\u201d Jesus, the incarnate God, became man, and was born in a town called \u201cHouse of Bread,\u201d and was laid in a manger, which is just a fancy word for a feeding trough. In other words, arguably, Jesus became man for the sake of us being able to receive Him, body, blood, soul, and divinity in the Eucharist, and be closer and more intimate with Him than ever before.\u201d Take a moment to reflect on the profundity of the fact that Jesus was born for our own sake so that we can have an intimate relationship with God through the Eucharist.<br><br><\/li><li>What area of faith interests you? Biblical history? Apologetics? Saints? Angels? During Advent, take some time to read about an area of Catholicism that you would like to learn more about.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-a-crash-course-in-scripture-part-iv\">Text: A Crash Course in Scripture, Part IV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Hi everyone, it\u2019s Katie Patrizio again, and I am with you today for our last video session together. <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/bible-101-a-crash-course-in-scripture-part-ii-advent-2018\/\">We\u2019ve talked a lot, you know, we\u2019ve gone through a lot of scripture<\/a> together. We\u2019ve talked about covenant, how important covenant is, we\u2019ve talked about creation, Adam, The Fall, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David. And I promised last time that when we pick up in this session that we\u2019ll touch a little bit on Solomon, then we\u2019ll get to the situation in which Jesus came on the scene, and then we\u2019ll talk about Jesus Himself. And remember, all of this is for the sake of trying to conjure up a sort of holy longing that the Israelite people themselves had for the Messiah, but hopefully we can have as well, especially in this time of Advent. So before we get any more deeper into the content, let\u2019s go ahead and open with a <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sitting-in-silence-with-the-lord-lent-2021\/\">prayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opening-prayer\">Opening Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\"><em>In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-to-lean-on-the-holy-spirit-during-suffering-healing-2019\/\">Holy Spirit<\/a>. Amen. Our God, we praise You and thank You for the time that we have been able to share together, and for the wisdom that You have imparted to us. We ask that You would allow this wisdom to take hold in our lives, and to lead us to greater love and desire for You. We ask Lord also that this love and desire for You might spill over and become love and desire to help our neighbor, not only in their physical needs, but also in their spiritual needs. That, Lord, Your gift to us of Yourself might inspire us to want others to receive the same, and to share that gift with them. We ask that in this last time together, in this last video session that I have, that we might see the amazing way in which You have chosen to become incarnate and to give Yourself to us, and that during this time of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/keeping-real-advent-advent-2016\/\">Advent<\/a> we might see that gift as beautiful and great and, again, desire to share that gift with others. We ask all this in Jesus\u2019 name. Amen. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-to-lean-on-the-holy-spirit-during-suffering-healing-2019\/\">Holy Spirit<\/a>. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"recap\">Recap<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So like I said, we\u2019ve talked about a lot. But where we left off was the story of David. And previous to that, we looked at the covenants with Adam and with Noah, and then we saw in particular how God kind of took a different strategy with Abraham. God made 3 promises to Abraham: That Abraham\u2019s descendants would be a great nation, a great name, and that the world would be blessed through them. I want to circle around to this because sometimes as we get into the nitty-gritty of the covenants, we can forget the primary reason for them. So ever since The Fall, salvation history has been God trying to remake the covenant with us. And so Abraham\u2019s descendants have an integral role in that. Remember, the third promise is that the rest of the world would be drawn back to God and will receive blessing from God through Abraham\u2019s descendants, through the Israelite people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So God said that he would have descendants, Abraham I mean would have descendants, and that they would be a great nation, a great name, and that blessing would come through them to the whole world, universal blessing. We saw how Moses, leading the people out of Egypt, helped to fulfill this first promise that the Israelite people would be a great nation. And then we saw that in the person of David, who is royalty, we have this fulfillment of the promise that the Israelite people would be a great name, which in ancient Near-Eastern culture means royalty. So that last covenant that we\u2019ve left with, that last covenant with Abraham, that last promise is the promise of universal blessing. It takes a lot though, there\u2019s a lot that happens in the scriptures and in the story before we really get to that fulfillment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"understanding-david\">Understanding David<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So we left off at David, let\u2019s pick up with him. Where we left David and where we left the Israelite kingdom was fairly secure. I said that David was securing the borders, and he was just generally establishing stability for the Israelite people. David\u2019s son Solomon is going to do this even more. In fact, Solomon\u2019s name comes from that Hebrew word \u201cShalom,\u201d which means peace. Solomon is known as the prince of peace. We see him, for example, riding not upon a horse, but upon a donkey. And they say that a donkey is not an animal of war. If you\u2019ve ever ridden on a donkey, you know that they can\u2019t run. My uncle had mules, which is a cross between a horse and a donkey. I remember being a kid and trying to get those things to run. They don\u2019t run. You don\u2019t want to be caught on a donkey or a mule in the middle of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"solomon\">Solomon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so, in many ways, Solomon is a figure of peace. He\u2019s further established the kingdom in peace, he\u2019s extended the borders. In fact, we see Solomon not just in a role of king, but kind of in a role of emperor. So if we read through the scriptures, we see that other kings and queens come to him, giving him gifts, giving him homage, which means that he\u2019s likely an emperor, which means that he\u2019s a king over kings, a king of kings. And these titles should sound familiar &#8211; prince of peace, king of kings &#8211; especially in this time of year, in this liturgical <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/six-ways-keep-advent-season-holy-part-advent-2016\/\">season of Advent<\/a>. And so we\u2019re already kind of starting to see how Jesus is going to fulfill a lot of what Solomon did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus is going to do some things different though than Solomon did. Solomon was a great king, he was a great figure, but at the end of his life he turned away from God. In Deuteronomy, Moses gave 3 rules for the future king of Israel. They were very simple. Moses said that the future king of Israel should not multiply gold, he should not multiply horses, and he should not multiply wives. When we read about Solomon at the end of his life, the scriptures specifically tell us that Solomon multiplied all 3 of these things. He had an enormous amount of gold, he had an enormous amount of horses, and he had an enormous amount of wives. It\u2019s a little bit scandalous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">The worst part about it though is that the scripture tells us that Solomon\u2019s many wives turned his <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/fathers-heart-lent-2018\/\">heart from God<\/a>. And at the end of his life, Solomon started practicing pagan worship. He started offering sacrifice to false gods, which is horribly horrific. It\u2019s kind of redundant, but that\u2019s how bad it was. Horribly horrific. Not good. And this ended up having repercussions that outlived him. Solomon\u2019s son who takes over, is not as well-known as Solomon. His name is Rehoboam. Rehoboam seems to have inherited all of the bad practices of Solomon, and we see this early on in his reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Solomon, in addition to not following the laws of Moses and worshiping pagan gods, we\u2019re also told that Solomon imposed a lot of building projects on the Israelite people at the end of his life. So at the beginning of Rehoboam\u2019s reign, it tells us that the Israelite people come to Rehoboam and they make a simple request of him. They say \u201cCan you lighten our load? In other words, can you reduce some of the servitude that your father pressed us into? Can you let us have a little bit of a break here?\u201d It tells us that Rehoboam goes and consults not the wise men of his father\u2019s court, but his own <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sharing-gods-graces-christian-friendship\/\">friends<\/a>. And his friends tell him to not only refuse the request of the Israelite people, but actually to increase the building projects and the service of the Israelite people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"understanding-the-jews\">Understanding the Jews<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what Rehoboam does. And when he announces that to the people of Israel, the people of Israel say something very sad. They say \u201cLook to your own house, Judah,\u201d and that\u2019s in reference to the tribe of Judah, which is what the Davidic king was from, \u201cLook to your own house, Judah, and we will look to ours.\u201d And so what that ends up triggering or signaling is, what is called by theologians and historians and biblical scholars, the beginning of the divided kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Israel, the nation of Israel is made up of 12 tribes, and when the kingdom divides the 10 northern tribes form their own country. And they even raise up their own king in competition to the true king, Davidic king Rehoboam. And the 2 southern tribes, Judah and Benjamin, they\u2019ve basically assimilated into one nation that comes to be called Judah, okay. So this is where we actually start to refer to the Israelite people not necessarily as Israelites, but possibly as Jews. So Jews are Israelites of the tribe of Judah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a lot more detail that we could go into, but essentially what ends up happening is that because that kingdom is divided, these now 2 separate nations are more susceptible to foreign powers. And so what happens, unfortunately, is the country of Assyria comes and takes the 10 northern tribes into exile and never brings them back again. The leader of the Babylonians come and they take the tribes of Judah and Benjamin into exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, many years after they\u2019ve been in exile, there\u2019s a righteous king named Cyrus who is inspired to allow the Jewish people to return to their home. So he frees them from exile, and they return once more to the promised land. They\u2019re not yet their own sovereign nation though. They don\u2019t have a Davidic king over them and, in fact, they end up being ruled by 4 nations consecutively ruling over them. The most famous nation that rules over them is the Roman empire, okay, and this is the situation into which Jesus is born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-prophecy\">A Prophecy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me add a whole other layer of excitement of a thriller here if you will, suspense maybe: There is a prophecy given to the prophet Daniel that was able to be interpreted by the Jews so specifically that the Jewish people knew that four nations would oppress them after they returned from Exile. And they were also able to interpret the prophecy so specifically that they knew that the fourth nation was the Roman empire. So the prophecy goes that after this fourth nation, the Israelite people, the Jewish people would be freed from oppression, and that they would be allowed to become once more their own sovereign nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, this is the situation into which Jesus comes, a situation that I like to say is full of messianic fervor, okay. What do I mean when I say messianic fervor? I mean that the people were just waiting, they were just poised for the Messiah to come. Who is the Messiah? Well, you\u2019ve probably heard this term a lot. In Hebrew, it just means \u201cThe anointed one.\u201d But most often, it referred to the Davidic king, because the Davidic king was himself anointed when he was coroneted king. So the Israelite people are awaiting the reestablishment of the nation of Israel, the reestablishment of the Davidic king, and they began&#8230; they had begun to see the beginnings of blessing to the whole world in the reign of Solomon. For example, like I noted, other kings and queens were coming to Solomon, and he was giving wisdom, right, if you remember those stories of the wisdom of Solomon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">So universal blessing had started to come forth from the Israelite people in the reign of Solomon. But all 3 of those aspects after the exile are no longer there. And so the Jewish people, the Israelite people are longing and they\u2019re waiting and they\u2019re praying for <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/having-hope-in-a-faithful-god-lent-2020\/\">God to be faithful<\/a> to His covenant promises to Abraham. And they trust God, and they know that God has to reestablish the covenants, because God is faithful. So they\u2019re just waiting and <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/pray-hope-dont-worry-advent-2017\/\">hoping and praying<\/a> and longing. And this is the scene onto which Jesus is born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"jesus-is-expected\">Jesus is Expected<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus is expected, but in many ways He\u2019s totally unexpected. What do I mean by that? Well, the Messiah is expected to come, he\u2019s expected to be the son of David, but he\u2019s not necessarily expected to be quite what Jesus was. Jesus perhaps didn\u2019t seem as concerned with the Roman occupation as some of the Jews would have hoped. Maybe the Jewish sect of the zealots who wanted to violently throw off the Roman Empire. Jesus also said things that, as Jewish people would observe, only God could say. Now, I really want to drive this home for you: The Jewish people did not necessarily expect that the Messiah would be God. This was the greatest blessing and the greatest unexpectedness, in a way, of Jesus becoming the incarnate. It\u2019s amazing really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Jesus doesn\u2019t necessarily fit quite the mold they\u2019re expected, but really He gives them so much more. When He begins His public ministry, He goes out into the desert and He is tempted 3 times. Each of these 3 times He\u2019s tempted in a way very similar to the manner in which Solomon fell. Solomon fell multiplying gold, horses, and wives. I wish I could go into more detail, but Jesus really, in His overcoming the threefold temptation, also overcomes the sinfulness of Solomon and reestablishes Himself as a just, righteous king. Jesus also says things to the people like \u201cMy yoke is easy, and My burden is light.\u201d This is very different from what Rehoboam said to the people of Israel. He in fact said \u201cI will make your burden greater.\u201d And so when Jesus says \u201cMy yoke is easy, and My burden is light,\u201d I really think He\u2019s referencing Rehoboam, and He\u2019s trying to draw Israelite people back to Himself. He\u2019s trying to make up for the sins of Solomon and Rehoboam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">He continues in His public ministry, preaching and teaching the things that we\u2019re so familiar with, but He chooses to overthrow the power of oppression in a way that the Israelite people didn\u2019t necessarily expect. In a way that the Jewish people didn\u2019t necessarily expect. So what do I mean by that? Well, sure, Rome was oppressing the Jewish people. But even more than that, what was the greatest oppression of not just the Jewish people, but the human race in general? It was the oppression that began in the garden with The Fall, and it\u2019s the oppression of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/overcoming-the-lies-of-the-devil\/\">Satan<\/a> and the oppression of sin. So when Jesus takes His place on the throne of the Davidic king, He takes His place unexpectedly and in a manner that wasn\u2019t necessarily foreseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Jesus comes into Jerusalem victoriously, in a way, on <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/palm-sunday-lent-2018\/\">Palm Sunday<\/a>. He has&#8230; He\u2019s greeted in a way that Solomon himself was greeted after his coronation. But unlike Solomon, who goes and mounts his throne in his palace after his coronation, Jesus mounts His throne, but His throne is very different than the throne of most kings. Jesus enters Jerusalem triumphantly and mounts the throne of the cross. But it is the throne of the cross that\u2019s going to redeem the world from the true oppression, which is the oppression of sin. This is very, very powerful and, again, we have the fulfillment of even the prophecy of Abraham that God Himself will provide the lamb of sacrifice. I wish I had so much more time to go into more detail with you. There are so many things we could talk about but we\u2019re running out of time even in this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"establishing-the-church-and-sacraments\">Establishing the Church and Sacraments<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I want, though, all of this time to have some personal meaning and application to your life. I\u2019m sure it already does at this point, but I want to run this home for you: The fact that God did not come and become incarnate and die on the cross just for the Jewish people. In fact, He established the church, and He established the sacraments. And in the sacrament of baptism, we have Jesus reestablishing the covenant with us individual. At baptism, God makes us His family once more. He makes us sons and daughters of Him. This is why baptism is so powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember I said a covenant really can make 2 people who aren\u2019t related into family. The beautiful thing, somehow even more beautiful than baptism, though, is that God, Jesus, is not satisfied with simply that while we were on earth, while we are on earth. Jesus wants intimacy and closeness with us right now. He doesn\u2019t want to wait until heaven. And so He has given us this other beautiful sacrament, which is the sacrament of the Eucharist. And in the Eucharist, God literally gives Himself to us. We have more intimacy with our Lord in the Eucharist than even a married couple have in their own practice of intimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus, in the form of bread, comes inside of us to be physically united with us. This is how much our Lord wants to be close to us. And arguably this is why all of salvation history, this is why all of the bible came about, for you to be able to receive God, Jesus, into your very being and be close to Him, in this life and in the next. It\u2019s possible that Jesus &#8211; well, not possible, it\u2019s very likely &#8211; that Jesus had this in mind from the very beginning. From the very beginning not only of the story of salvation, but of His very life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">How do I <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/getting-to-know-jesus-better-this-lent-lent-2020\/\">know that Jesus<\/a> had the Eucharist in mind at the beginning of His earthly life? Well, we have the detail at the beginning of the gospels that Jesus was born in a particular town. He was born in Bethlehem as the city of David, of course, but I think there\u2019s another reason He was born there. You see, Bethlehem in Hebrew means \u201cHouse of bread.\u201d Jesus, the incarnate God, became man, and was born in a town called \u201cHouse of Bread,\u201d and was laid in a manger, which is just a fancy word for a feeding trough. In other words, arguably, Jesus became man for the sake of us being able to receive Him, body, blood, soul, and divinity in the Eucharist, and be closer and more intimate with Him than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Everything we\u2019ve talked about so far has been for this, has been for our own sake. Very, very personal and beautiful intimacy that God wants with us in the Eucharist. I really enjoyed making these videos with you and our time together, even though it\u2019s been online. Thank you so much for listening, and I wish you a blessed <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/o-light-that-knew-no-dawn-advent-2020\/\">Advent and a very merry Christmas<\/a>. God bless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-katie-patrizio\">About Katie Patrizio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:29% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Katie-Patrizio-Headshot-Advent.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2642 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-katie-patrizio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katie Patrizio<\/a><\/strong> is a popular speaker and teacher with a gift for making the most elusive topics accessible and meaningful to a wide range of audiences. &nbsp;Best known for her talks on Scripture, she&#8217;s also passionate about inspiring people to holiness. A native of Southern California, Katie holds a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in philosophy and theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville and a Master&#8217;s degree in Biblical theology from John Paul the Great Catholic University in San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She currently serves as the Director of Faith Formation at St. Cecilia Parish in Ames, IA and as an instructor for the Catechetical Institute of the Diocese of Des Moines. &nbsp;She is a frequent guest on Iowa Catholic Radio and speaks and teaches often on topics of Scripture and popular theology. \u200bIn her free time Katie enjoys reading, flying, and competitive rowing. 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