FOR MYSELF AND MY FAMILY
2 - To learn or better understand the social teachings of the Church and how they apply to my professional life.
3 - To gain the strength and develop the wisdom to apply the social teachings of the Church to my professional life.
4 - To learn to bring my professional life into my prayer/spiritual life making the former more effective and the latter more relevant.
5 - To gain insights from the treasures of the teachings of the Church and develop the attitudes, skills and virtues which will make me more successful in my professional life.
6 - To learn how to find strength and insights in the sacraments for the good of my professional life.
7 - To learn how to pray and ask for the help of the saints and especially of Our Lady in my professional life.
8 - To understand and love God's will relative to the questions of money and of making a living.
9 - To learn how to make major and minor decisions about my professional life in itself but also as it affects my relationship with my wife and children, and pleases God.
10 - To learn how to teach my children the social teachings of the Church in the light of my experiences in the professional life.
11 - To learn how to teach my children about the practical matters of professional life in light of the social teachings of the Church.
12 - To learn how to deal with my employees and supervisors in a Christian fashion.
13 - To learn how to deal with customers and suppliers in a Christian fashion.
14 - To share practical experiences and insights with other parishioners who are working on the same questions.
15 - To share my practical needs and questions regarding my professional life with other parishioners whom God may have provided with the resources or answers I need.
16 - To share my practical needs and questions regarding my professional life with other parishioners as God may have provided me with the resources and answers they need.
17 - To network professionally with parishioners and other members of the Saint Antoninus Institute nationwide.
18 - To personally contribute to the Church's growth in numbers and holiness.
FOR THE CHURCH
21 - To help my parish grow by attracting more men and professionals to the parish.
22 - To help my parish grow by helping develop the faith of the men in the parish which, experience shows, is the best means to ensure that their children will keep the faith.
23 - To help the Church grow by attracting non-Catholics and non-Christians to the parish.
24 - To help the Church first by developing a sense of solidarity, and then by making it a reality, first at the parish level, next between parishes, and finally throughout the economy.
25 - To help the Church by helping to implement, through the Circles, the reality of the teaching on subsidiarity and of intermediate institutions.
26 - To help my pastor, associate pastors, deacons and sisters appreciate the practical problems of the professional life of the laity.
27 - To help my pastor, associate pastors, deacons and sisters better understand the social teachings of the Church in light of my practical experience, difficulties and successes with these teachings.
28 - To help my pastor, associate pastors, deacons and sisters make their spiritual lives richer by meditating on God's intervention in the professional life of their parishioners.
29 - To help my pastor, associate pastors, deacons and sisters better understand the value of the sacraments and of prayer in the professional life of the laity.
30 - To help my pastor, associate pastors, deacons and sisters preach the Word of God better on the strength of their better understanding of the laity's problems in the professional life.
31 - To help theologians better understand the experiences of the professional life so as to better explain the teachings of the Church in the face of these needs.
32 - To help theologians better understand the experiences of the professional life so as to better develop the teachings of the Church.
33 - To help bishops better understand the experiences of the laity's professional life so as to provide better for the needs of their flock.
FOR THE WORLD
36 - To help the world understand the God -centered basis of human dignity and human work, the keystones of Christian social teachings.
37 - To help the world appreciate that God is the ultimate source of money, power and authority, not governments.
38 - To help the world appreciate that economies are not abstract realities but the sum of each person's productive work, have public institutions encourage individual productivity and limit government interventions to strict matters of justice.
39 - To help the world understand and appreciate the value of sacrificing for and of sharing with one's fellow human beings and allow room for these activities in the design of public institutions.
40 - To help the world understand that God wants us to act like brothers, according to the principle of solidarity, not according to the principle of class struggle, even when different individuals have different levels of affluence.
41 - To help the world understand that individuals have the natural inclination, and therefore the right, to associate according to common needs and just preferences.
42 - To help the world understand that only a culture of Truth makes an economic system function, that lies are not productive in management and that Our Lord is the total Truth and source of all truths.
43 - To help the world understand that human needs should be studied and remedied by the people who are the closest to these needs, for that is the most effective approach.
44 - To help the world understand that human needs should be studied and remedied by the people who are the closest to these needs, for that is the way God expects His children to express their charity.
45 - To help the world understand that public institutions should help local needs and problems only when they are invited to do so, otherwise human dignity is not respected.
46 - To help the world understand that communities should seek to ally themselves with other communities to study and resolve problems they have in common, and seek help from higher institutions only as a last resort.
47 - To help the world understand that the complete principles of economic prosperity and political harmony are taught authoritatively only by the Catholic Church.
48 - To help the world appreciate the good effects the teachings of the Catholic Church would have in the public arena.
49 - To help the world respect and encourage the efforts of the Catholic Church to evangelize all nations.
50 - To help the whole world to convert and genuinely become the body of Christ.
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