Study Materials
Great Catholic Women, Vol. 1
A seventeen-session Catholic women's Bible study on seventeen holy women across two thousand years of the Church — from the Mother of God through the Magdalene, the early martyrs and matriarchs, the medieval mystics, and the Carmelite doctors of the modern age. Sister study to Wisdom of the Fathers, Vol. 1.
Session 1
"Behold, I Am the Handmaid of the Lord" — Mary's Fiat and the Theology of Consent
Session 2
"And a Sword Will Pierce Your Own Soul" — Mary at the Cross and Redemptive Suffering
Session 3
"The Woman Clothed with the Sun" — Mary, the Assumption, and the Eschatological Mother
Session 4
"Apostle to the Apostles" — Mary Magdalene and the Witness of Encounter
Session 5
"She Loved Much" — Magdalene and the Theology of Repentance
Session 6
"She Wept More Tears for Me Than Most Mothers Weep at the Death of a Son" — Monica and the Spirituality of Intercession
Session 7
"Bury My Body Anywhere" — Monica and Holy Detachment
Session 8
"The Teacher" — Macrina and the Domestic Church
Session 9
"On the Soul and the Resurrection" — Macrina the Theologian
Session 10
"The Living Light" — Hildegard and the Theology of Beauty
Session 11
"Be Not Lax" — Hildegard's Prophetic Witness
Session 12
"The Bride and the Blood" — Catherine and Bridal Mysticism
Session 13
"Spend Your Life for the Church" — Catherine and Active Mysticism
Session 14
"The Interior Castle" — Teresa and the Architecture of the Soul
Session 15
"Christ Has No Body Now But Yours" — Teresa and Reform from the Inside
Session 16
"The Little Way" — Thérèse and the Theology of Smallness
Session 17
"I Will Spend My Heaven Doing Good on Earth" — Thérèse and the Communion of Saints