Spiritual Guidance Small Groups: Information & Resources

We’re glad you’re taking this step toward growing in your spiritual life! The goals of the small group are to work with Catholic Spiritual Mentors in a small group

• To learn how to pray using the 3 R’s.

• To build the habit of daily prayer as you wait for a spiritual mentor.

• To get paired with 1 or 2 other participants in the small group for ongoing accountability.

• To set a foundation from which you can build and continue meeting with the other women in your small group (after the 4 meetings with the co-leaders) to support each other and continue growing in Spiritual Friendship.

• View the Lesson video prior to each small group meeting. Consider what stood out to you or struck you and make note of that.

• Print out any accompanying handouts so you can use those in your prayer time.

• View the Meditation video about 2 weeks after your small group meeting. By waiting, it allows you to first attempt to apply what you learned in the lesson, helping you better understand and relate to what Susan is sharing.

o You can follow along with the Meditation handout and underline any word or phrase that strikes you; then reflect on that.

• View the remaining lessons about 1 month apart to give yourself time to pray, reflect, and apply the information you’ve learned.

We encourage you to continue viewing the Lesson videos on a monthly basis, there are 12 total, and discussing them amongst your small group.

One of you could be the organizer for the date and time of the monthly small group meeting.

You can reach out to your co-leaders with any questions about the videos or what you should do during your monthly small group meeting as you wait to be matched with a spiritual mentor.

You can contact School of Faith at CSMfemalematching@schooloffaith.com with any questions about being matched with a spiritual mentor.

Please don’t share this link. This has been shared with you for the Spiritual Guidance Small Groups.

However, we’re happy to work with someone who wants to view these!

Please let them know that they’ll automatically start receiving the videos if they request a spiritual mentor. They can do this at this link: https://schooloffaith.com/spiritual-mentorship).

If they don’t want to do that, please have them contact School of Faith at CSMfemalematching@schooloffaith.com.

We discourage you from doing that because the Holy Spirit will form you as you take the time to view and reflect on the information through prayer over a period of time.

Viewing all of them in a short period of time will be too much information for you to process and put into practice, thus slowing down your progress. Trust in God’s timing.

See “How do I use this resource…?” above for the suggested timing of viewing the videos.