Anthony Wilhelm - Christ Among Us: A Modern Presentation of the Catholic Faith for Adults

Our Life and God

Something to Live For
How People Come to Know God

What Is Necessary to Know God
What Can We Say About God?

Daily Living: PrayerOur Contact with God

Gods Plan for Us Begins with Creation

The Source of Our Story
Human Beginnings

What Are We?
Other Worlds, Angels, and Devils

Daily Living: Worshiping Our Creator

Gods Gift of Himself and Our Rejection of Him

Gods Great Gift and His Desire for Humankind

Humankinds Rejection of Gods Love

Facing Our Sins
Gods Plan of Greater Love

Daily Living: Gods Constant Helps

Gods Plan Unfolds in the Old Testament

The Great People of the Covenant
The Making of the Old Covenant

Daily Living: The Ten CommandmentsRelating to God and Our Neighbor

Priests, Kings, and Prophets Prepare the Way

Sacrifices, Priests, and Kings
The Prophets

Daily Living: Our Faith Expressed by Reverence and Worship and
Its Relation to the Jewish People Today

Christ Comes Among Us

The Coming of Jesus Christ

The Kingdom of God Is Here!

The Promised Messiahand His Rejection

Daily Living: The Life of His Kingdom Is Love

Christ Reveals to Us the Father, the Spirit, and Himself

Our Father
The Human Son, One of Us

The Divine Son
The Holy Spirit

Daily Living: Our Dignity as Bearers of the Trinity and
Sisters and Brothers of Christ

Christ Saves Us by His Death and Resurrection

In Christ We Died and Rose Again

Through Christs Perfect Worship We Can Now Reach God

The New and Unending Covenant of Love

Christ Is in Glory Among Us

Daily Living: Our Attitude Toward Sin and Suffering

Christ Sends the Holy Spirit to Form His Church

The Spirit Forms Gods New People

The Community of the Spirit

A Unified, Universal Community

Union with Christ Among Us

Daily Living: Loving Our Fellow Members of Christ and All People

Those Who Serve as Our Guides

Christ Chooses the Apostles and Peter

The College of Bishops

The Papacy

The Gifts of All to Serve All

The Gift of Infallibility

Daily Living: Our Attitude Toward Authority

The Great Book in Which We Meet God

The Bible, Gods Word and Ours, Too

The Bibles Origin and Development

The Churchs Tradition Interprets the Bible

An Outline of the Bible

Daily Living: The Bible in Our Life

The Great Signs in Which We Meet God

The Sacred Liturgy, Christs Signs of Love

The SacramentalsReaching Out for Christ

Christs Seven SacramentsOur Great, Intimate Contacts with Him

Word and Sacrament

Daily Living: Signs of Gods Presence

Christ Unites Us to Himself and to One Another by Baptism

What Christ Does for Us in Baptism

Who Can Be Baptized?

Conversion

The Christian Initiation of Adults

The Majority Who Are Not Baptized

Daily Living: Renewing Our Baptismal Conversion

Our Worship Together: The Mass

Why We Gather Together to Worship

Christ Gathers Us to Share in His Greatest Action

This Is Our Covenant Meal

And Our Perfect Sacrifice

The Mass Is Gods Word, Our Gift, and His Gift

Step by Step Through the Mass

Daily Living: The Mass and Our Daily Life

The Eucharist in Christs Church Today

How the Mass Developed

The Mass and Christian Unity

Christ Among Us at Mass

The Christian People at Mass

Reliving Christs Life Through the Liturgical Year

Christ Among Us in the Eucharist

Daily Living: One Bread Makes Us One Body

The Inner Life of a Christian

FaithAcceptance and Commitment

How One Comes to Faith

Doubting, Growing, Returning to Faith

HopeA Confident Expectation

LoveThe One Thing Necessary

Christian Prayer: Touching the Mystery, the Presence

Daily Living: Love in Our Life

Our Christian Presence in the World

Our Christian Presence of Service

The Dignity and Sacredness of Each Human Life

Our Christian Commitment to Justice

Our Christian Commitment to Peace

Christ Sends Us the Holy Spirit in Confirmation

Daily Living: Being Open to the Spirit, Peaceful and Prodding

Sin and What It Can Do to Us

Sin in Our Life

Judging the Seriousness of Sin

The Concept of Hell

Making Up for Sin

Daily Living: Overcoming Sin

The Christians Continuing Conversion

Our Need of Continual Conversion

God Wants to Forgive Our Sins

Christ Forgives and Reconciles Through His Church

Sorrow, the One Thing Necessary

The Rite of Reconciliation

Daily Living: Doing Penance for Our Sins

When Illness or Disability Comes to a Christian

The Power of Sickness over Us

Christs Power over Sickness

The Anointing of the Sick

Daily Living: Our Attitude Toward Sickness and Disability

Christ Joins a Man and Woman in Marriage

Why Marriage?

What Is Christian Marriage?

Before Marriage

How to Get Married

Creative, Responsible Married Love

Christian Family Life Day by Day

What of Interfaith Marriages?

Daily Living: Renewing Ones Marriage

The Family that Is the Church

Gods Gifted People

Priests, Gods Instruments at the Service of People

The Role of Religious

Our Bishop and Our Diocese

The Emerging Role of Women in the Church

Daily Living: The Matter of Vocation

The Greater Family to Which We Belong

The Saints: Our Models and Intercessors

Gods Mother and Ours

Mary, First Among Christians

Daily Living: The Spur of Sanctity

Christs Church in the World Today

Christs Church Is Divine

Catholic Christian EducationSharing the Good News and a Way of Life

Whether or Not to Join the Church

Christs Church Is Human

Reconciling the Divided Church and a Divided World

The Churchs Mission of Loving Service in Todays World

Daily Living: The Compassionate Church

Living Daily the Christian Life

How Do We Know How to Live?

The Beatitudes

Our Home Life

Our Work or School Life

Our Social Life

Our Religious Life

Fulfillment Forever

Our Meeting with Christ at Death

Purgatory: The Idea of Accountability

At the End

The New Universe Toward Which We Work

Heaven, Our Destiny

Daily Living: The Difference in Being a Christian

Appendix: Using Christ Among Us with
the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( RCIA )