Welcome to Paladins!
Life is a Journey to God, and we all need help on our journey.
We are Evangelical Roman Catholic Christians who faithfully embrace Roman Catholic truth and spirituality. We promote an ongoing, lifelong journey to God, an ever-deepening faith and love, an ever more realized sanctification, a more thorough realization of our status as children of God.
We also acknowledge that the status quo approach to forming genuine disciples of Christ is not working particularly well in any of the western churches. We seek to revitalize our Christian walk and assist others to do likewise. We acknowledge this is no simple matter—no easy matter!
We believe that any grassroots approach to help faithful Catholics overcome the added spiritual assaults of our modern society must include a focus on the following:
- The Christian Family
- Small Church Communities
- The New Evangelization
While we emphasize all three of these elements, we directly work on aiding small church communities. In fact, we would like to share our vision of small church communities with you. We encourage you to begin with our three-part article on “The Foundations of Life,” which deals with embracing the Catholic worldview and revealing how small church communities can help with this. However, if you want to jump straight into the Paladin vision for small church communities, the “Paladin Primer” can help with that. The first two articles—“Introduction & Vision” and “Basic Guidelines”—will be a good start.
What You Will Find at Paladins.us
Please be patient, as we are just getting started with this website; we have a lot of good stuff in the works.
Our Main Articles
The Foundation of Everything
This three-part article establishes important foundations for everything we’re about at Paladin.us. Start Reading >>
“Getting the Most Out of Life” explores the failures of the modern worldview and its promises. It then contrasts the Catholic worldview with the modern worldview, clearly revealing the profound attraction of the Catholic worldview.
“Getting the Most Out of Catholicism” reveals that many Catholics have forgotten that forming disciples is the primary purpose of the Church. This article urges us to focus on forming living, growing disciples of Jesus Christ and forming small church communities to support each other in this.
“Getting the Most Out of Your Small Church Community” offers sound advice about what one should look for in a small church community. The article emphasizes discipleship and the journey to God, fellowship and support of members, and the evangelical outreach and warm welcome to all.
Small Church Communities
This four-part article shares the Paladin vision for small church communities. Start Reading >>
“Introduction & Vision” explores the vision, nature, and essential ingredients of a Paladin Small Church Community.
“Basic Guidelines” offer a concrete details for structure, layout, commitment, discussion guidelines, meetings format, orientation night, SCC multiplication, Clan Meals, and much more.
“Important Goals” covers the Paladins objectives regarding SCC priorities, SCC leadership, SCC management, and much more.”
“Paladin Materials” covers our approach to discussion series materials, including our unlimited approach to materials, our open-ended questions, our approach to discussion series, and much more.
Our Posts Categories
Small Church Community Posts
These posts include the four articles mentioned above plus any addendum articles to follow. These posts offer more valuable thought on nurturing and sustaining a healthy small church community (materials not covered here).
Catholic Book Posts
For the most part, these are recommended book following into one of the following categories:
Discussion books are recommended for use in the study series of small church communities.
Devotional books are recommended for personal devotions (some books do work well for both).
These are not typically detailed reviews. Often, most of the description is from Amazon.com or the publisher. Our purpose here is to draw your attention to these books.
Catholic Reflections (“Soular” Reflections)
This is our basic blog on all things Catholic. These are more centered on our journey to God than church controversies or liturgical matters. However, any Catholic matter could appear here.
Miscellaneous Pages
Prayers is a page with a small collection of classic, adapted, and original vocal prayers.
Rosary Meditations to get more out of your rosary!
Spiritual Gems is a page with short thoughts, mottoes, quotes, & so forth.
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