TOB: Love & Responsibility
21-26 January 2024
Mt Carmel Retreat Centre, Varroville
A not-to-be-missed 5-day immersion course opportunity to participate and learn St John-Paul’s classic work from Dr. Christopher West here in Sydney! Open to all Australians!
Five and a half days live-in of learning & interactive lectures with Dr Christopher West (30 hours of graduate/master’s level instruction)​
All course workbook and materials to help you focus more on listening and receiving
Daily Mass, adoration, and confession
5-night accommodation in a single occupied room and delicious meals throughout the week
Gorgeous retreat setting grounds to soak in God’s natural beauty
Course Description
This course is devoted to St John Paul II’s classic pre-papal work Love and Responsibility and examines the philosophical foundation of the TOB.  Themes include: the dignity of the person as the kind of being that must never be used; sexual attraction and emotion as the raw material of love; integrating sexual attraction and emotion with the dignity of the person; male and female differences; the swallowing of shame by love; and the nature of chastity as a virtue that celebrates the true dignity and goodness of the person and of sexuality.
Learning Objectives
- Explore the philosophical reasons why marriage must be faithful, indissoluble and open to children
- Gain a familiarity of the compatibility and differences in a natural law and a personalist approach to ethics
- Critique utilitarianism
- Explain the personalistic norm
- Differentiate metaphysical, psychological and ethical analyses of love
- Investigate how a study of shame assists in the understanding of chastity
- Discriminate the differences between natural family planning and contraception
Registration
Cost: $1900 AUD . Partial subsidies available for approved students
Inclusion: Immersion Course with all materials, 5 nights (single occupied) accommodation and meals
[Partial Subsidies for Participants from the Archdiocese of Sydney now closed]
The Sydney Centre for Evangelisation (SCE) is offering partial subsidies as a means of fostering a community of TOB leaders and formators in the Archdiocese of Sydney. For more information and to apply, click below! [Closing date for applications: 15th of November]
Mt Carmel Retreat Centre, Varroville
Five nights accomodation and fully catered at the beautiful and intimate Mt Carmel Retreat Centre
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