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Catholic Bible Studies for Small Groups

Free studies that foster authentic fellowship, deepen faith, and help participants be transformed by God’s Word. Every study includes leader guides, discussion questions, and take-home sheets.

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"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God." · Ephesians 6:10-11

14 sessionsReviewed and updated
SG Salvation & Grace Hold Fast Salvation from First Grace to Final Glory

Fourteen sessions on justification, sanctification, and whether salvation can be lost, with the question sealed in an envelope on the first night and answered from Scripture before any authority is quoted.

Defending the Faith
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
BR Eucharist & Passover The True Bread The Jewish Roots of the Eucharist

Twelve sessions walking to the Eucharist by the road Israel walked, from the scandal of John 6 to the Passover, the manna, the bread of the Presence, and the supper of the Lamb.

Defending the Faith
13 sessionsReviewed and updated
CS Witness & Mission Come and See Bringing People to Christ, from First Friendship to Sending Out

Thirteen sessions on the whole arc of bringing another person to Christ, from earning trust to proposing him plainly, handing the person to the Church, and being sent, with five stand-alone modules on telling your story, the family who will not listen, someone wounded by a person in the Church, the invitation itself, and what to do when nothing happens.

Evangelization
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
RV Revelation The Unveiling A Catholic Journey Through the Book of Revelation

Walk Revelation from the open door of the Lord's Day to the open gates of the new Jerusalem, in fourteen sessions.

Revelation
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
PE 1 & 2 Peter A Living Hope A Catholic Journey Through the Letters of Saint Peter

Twelve sessions through First and Second Peter: hope for exiles, and the apostle's final testament.

Letters
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
IS Isaiah Here Am I, Send Me A Catholic Journey Through the Prophet Isaiah

Fourteen sessions through Isaiah: the vineyard, the virgin, the servant who was pierced, and the new heavens and new earth.

Old Testament
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
SI Sirach If You Come Forward to Serve A Catholic Journey Through the Book of Sirach

Twelve sessions in the wisdom of Ben Sira, from the fear of the Lord to the high priest at the altar, on preparing the heart to serve.

Old Testament
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
BV The Blessed Virgin Mary The Woman Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary

Twelve sessions on the Mother of God through her Jewish roots: the New Eve, the Ark of the Covenant, the Queen Mother, and the woman clothed with the sun.

Catholic Foundations
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
TB Tobit The Works of God A Catholic Journey Through the Book of Tobit

Twelve sessions through Tobit: two prayers, a hidden angel, a journey to the Tigris, and the God who works unseen.

Old Testament
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
AC Acts of the Apostles The Way A Catholic Journey Through the Acts of the Apostles

Fourteen sessions through Acts: Pentecost, the Damascus road, the council of Jerusalem, and the Church that arrived in Rome.

The Early Church
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
JN The Gospel of John Behold the Lamb A Catholic Journey Through the Gospel of John

Fourteen sessions in the Gospel of John, from the Word made flesh to the charcoal fire on the shore, written that you may believe.

Gospels
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
MT The Gospel of Matthew Emmanuel A Catholic Journey Through the Gospel of Matthew

Fourteen sessions through Matthew, from the genealogy that opens the New Testament to the promise that closes it: I am with you always.

Gospels
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
MK The Gospel of Mark A Ransom for Many A Catholic Journey Through the Gospel of Mark

Mark’s Gospel at a run: fourteen sessions from the Jordan to the torn veil, asking the question the whole book turns on. Who do you say that I am?

Gospels
15 sessionsReviewed and updated
RO Romans Romans The Gospel of God: Paul's Letter to the Romans

Fifteen sessions through Paul's masterwork, from the wrath revealed to the righteousness of God in Christ.

Letters
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
CO Covenant History I Will Be Your God A Catholic Journey Through Covenant History: From the Garden to the Wedding Feast

Twelve sessions tracing the covenants of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David to the new covenant sealed in the cup, and on to the wedding feast of the Lamb.

Catholic Foundations
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
1J 1-3 John That You May Know The Letters of John

John writes as an eyewitness of the incarnate Word, drawing us into koinonia, the real shared life with the Father and the Son.

Letters
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
GN Genesis First Light A Catholic Journey Through the Book of Genesis

Fourteen sessions through the book of beginnings, from the first light over the waters to a betrayed brother’s verdict: you meant evil, but God meant it for good.

Old Testament
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
KP The Priesthood A Kingdom of Priests Priesthood in the New Covenant

Twelve sessions on priesthood across all of Scripture, from Eden and the firstborn to the one High Priest and the royal priesthood of the baptized.

Catholic Foundations
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
LK The Gospel of Luke Today A Catholic Journey Through the Gospel of Luke

Walk the Gospel of Luke from the temple where it opens to the temple where it ends, in fourteen inductive sessions.

Gospels
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
BW Baptism Born of Water and the Spirit The Old Testament Springs of Baptism

Fourteen sessions tracing Baptism through Scripture, from the Spirit over the waters of creation to the blood and water from the opened side of Christ.

Catholic Foundations
6 sessionsReviewed and updated
SF Faith & Doubt Show Us the Father A Study for Seekers and the Friends Who Walk with Them

Six sessions for seekers and the friends who walk with them, on the hidden God, honest doubt, and the face of the Father, with five optional deep-dives on the hardest questions.

Conversion & Discipleship
10 sessionsReviewed and updated
PA The Parables The Parables of Jesus Ten Sessions on the Stories of the Kingdom

Ten sessions through the parables, from the Sower to the Sheep and the Goats, faithful to the RSV2CE and the Catechism.

Gospels
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
HE Hebrews A Great High Priest A Catholic Journey Through Hebrews

Hebrews is a sermon preached to Christians drifting from a treasure they had stopped seeing. This study helps a group rediscover it.

Letters
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
EU The Eucharist This Is My Body A Catholic Journey Through the Eucharist in Scripture

Twelve weeks around a shared table, from a garden to the breaking of the bread, tracing the Eucharist through all of Scripture.

Catholic Foundations
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
CF Confirmation You Shall Receive Power A Catholic Journey Through the Sacrament of Confirmation

Fourteen sessions on the sacrament of Confirmation, tracing the Holy Spirit through Scripture from the breath over creation to the seal of holy chrism, for candidates and their parents.

Catholic Foundations
6 sessionsReviewed and updated
SA Scripture & Authority Unless Someone Guides Me Scripture, Tradition, and the Authority of the Church

Six sessions on where the Bible came from, what Tradition is, and who has the authority to say what Scripture means, with three stand-alone modules on the papacy, the seven books, and the short objections that arrive without warning.

Defending the Faith
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
JE Jeremiah A New Covenant A Catholic Journey Through Jeremiah

Twelve sessions with the weeping prophet: broken cisterns, the potter’s house, fire in the bones, and the promise of a new covenant.

Old Testament
6 sessionsReviewed and updated
EC Encounters with Christ What Do You Seek? Six Encounters with the One Who Asked First

Six Gospel encounters for seekers and the friends who walk with them, proclaiming the whole Gospel from the thirst we are made with to the door only we can open, with six standalone deep-dives.

Conversion & Discipleship
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
PP The Papacy Feed My Sheep A Catholic Journey Through the Biblical Roots of the Papacy

Trace the biblical roots of the papacy from the calling of a fisherman to the servant of the servants of God.

Catholic Foundations
7 sessionsReviewed and updated
EG Eucharist & Grace Abide The Eucharist, Grace, and Staying in Christ

Seven sessions on the Eucharist, grace, justification, and perseverance, with five stand-alone modules on Mary, the saints, purgatory, baptism, and confession.

Defending the Faith
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
WI Wisdom Radiant and Unfading A Catholic Journey Through the Book of Wisdom

Fourteen sessions in the Book of Wisdom: the righteous man, radiant Lady Wisdom, and the God who loves all things that exist.

Old Testament
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
SP Simon Peter Into the Deep A Catholic Journey with Simon Peter

Walk one man's whole arc, from the boats to the courtyard fire to the shore to Rome, as an occasion of surrender to the Lord.

Conversion & Discipleship
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
HS The Holy Spirit Walk by the Spirit The Fruits, the Gifts, and the Works of Darkness

Twelve sessions on the life the Holy Spirit actually produces: the twelve fruits, the seven gifts, and the works of darkness the Spirit puts to death, with a standalone Gifts Inventory Guide for the last night.

Conversion & Discipleship
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
EX Exodus In Their Midst Exodus: From Slavery to Covenant Presence

Fourteen sessions through Exodus, from the cry of slaves in Egypt to the glory filling the tabernacle, following the rescue God worked so that he could dwell in their midst.

Old Testament
14 sessionsReviewed and updated
HM Holy Matrimony From the Beginning The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, for Couples Preparing to Marry

Fourteen sessions on the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, written for engaged couples in marriage preparation, from the design in Genesis to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Marriage & Family
12 sessionsReviewed and updated
PR Carmelite Spirituality Deep Calls to Deep Praying the Scriptures with St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila

Twelve sessions on the life of prayer, read with St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, from the universal call to holiness, through the dark night, to union with God.

Prayer & the Interior Life
16 sessionsReviewed and updated
EZ Ezekiel The LORD Is There Exile, Glory, and the God Who Comes Back: A Study of Ezekiel

Sixteen sessions through Ezekiel, from the wheeled throne that found the exiles in Babylon to the river flowing from the temple and a city renamed The LORD is there.

Old Testament
11 sessionsReviewed and updated
EP Ephesians This Great Mystery Ephesians and the Secret God Kept for Ages

Eleven sessions through Ephesians, from every spiritual blessing chosen before the foundation of the world to the whole armor of God, following the mystery Paul keeps naming until he says what it is.

Letters
8 sessionsReviewed and updated
RS The Resurrection If Christ Has Not Been Raised An Honest Investigation of the Resurrection of Jesus

Eight sessions for three friends and one question: did Jesus really rise? You work through the evidence together, and nothing goes on the fact ledger unless all three of you sign it.

Evangelization
6 sessionsReviewed and updated
BM Grief & Suffering Blessed Are Those Who Mourn A Catholic Study on Grief, Loss, and Suffering

Six sessions for a room where someone's loss is real: the tears of Jesus at Bethany, the lament psalms, the question of Job, the Man of Sorrows, suffering joined to Christ, and the promise that every tear is wiped away.

Catholic Foundations
6 sessionsReviewed and updated
LT Anxiety & Peace Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled A Catholic Study on Anxiety, Fear, and the Peace of Christ

Six sessions on anxiety, fear, and the peace of Christ, from the upper room to Gethsemane to Easter evening, with the question of whether anxiety is a sin sealed in an envelope on the first night and answered from the garden in Session 4.

Prayer & the Interior Life
8 sessionsReviewed and updated
RG The Beatitudes Rejoice and Be Glad The Beatitudes and the Pursuit of Happiness

Eight sessions on the Beatitudes as Jesus' answer to the question everyone is already asking about happiness, with the group finding the Old Testament roots live in their own Bibles and a sealed guess from the first night opened in Session Five.

Gospels
5 sessionsReviewed and updated
DH Advent & Christmas The Dawn from on High Messianic Prophecy from Isaiah to Bethlehem

Five sessions that walk one road from Isaiah's promises to the manger, written for a parish room with grandparents, parents, teens and children at one table. Four nights match the four weeks of Advent; the fifth is kept deliberately for after Christmas Day.

Old Testament
8 sessionsReviewed and updated
SO Spiritual Warfare & Freedom The Stronger One Tearing Down Strongholds and Walking Free

Eight sessions for the habitual sin that will not die, the resentment with a lease, the compulsion, the despairing self-talk: what a stronghold actually is, how one gets built, and the weapons that bring one down.

Conversion & Discipleship
4 sessionsReviewed and updated
MS The Mass & the Sacraments It Is Finished Why a Relationship with Jesus Has a Body

Four sessions on the question a friend actually asks: why not just a relationship with Jesus? The group works through the mud in John 9, the one sacrifice in Hebrews, where the Mass came from, and what a Catholic is really required to do.

Defending the Faith
8 sessionsReviewed and updated
AS Apostolic Succession Until the End of the Age How Christ's Teaching, Authority, and Sacraments Reach Us Today

Eight sessions on one question: when Jesus gave his Apostles teaching, authority, and sacraments, how were those gifts meant to reach people born twenty centuries later? The group answers it from Scripture, one passage at a time.

Catholic Foundations