A year-long engagement that walks alongside your parish — forming a core team, teaching St. John Paul II's vision, and leaving a community equipped to carry this mission on long after we go.
Our time at St. Joseph in Imperial lasted from July 2024 – June 2025. We were blessed to work with Fr. Jack Ruzicka, Emily Kopff and many leaders in the parish… school faculty, PSR staff, Youth Group Core Team, teens in youth group, and many incredible lay leaders already passing on the message of JPII’s masterwork.
November 17th, 2024
St. Joseph parishioners, join us after the 10 am Mass to learn more about Theology of the Body at your parish. Coffee and muffins are provided. Children are welcome. Grow personally in JPII’s amazing teaching or join the parish team to spread the good news. Home hosts, leaders and witness couples are all needed for this growing team.
March 2 - April 13, 2025
Sunday Nights in Lent
Six presentations by Image of God Institute Staff and witnesses led teens in activities, small groups and talks on Theology of the Body. Answering questions typical teen questions about topics from relationships to the meaning of life. Interactive and filled with deep content.
Monday evenings during lent 2025
7 pm
Monday night for during lent, enjoy a new topic unpacking the wisdom of St. John Paul II. Learn how the treasures of JPII can dramatically bless your prayer life, your family and the entire St. Clement community.
No RSVPs needed. We look forward seeing you there.
April 4th, 2025
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Attendees will learn how to help spread Theology of the Body at St. Joseph parish for years to come. Become trained in offering TOB Retreats in your homes for family, friends, prayer groups, Bible studies, fellow parishioners. Team up to make it easy. Become a home host, witness couple, retreat leader or behind-the-scenes supporter. Also, discover evangelical tips for bringing the Good News into everyday life and around the parish. Invited parish leaders received an email to RSVP. Others interested…
June 9th, 2025
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Meet other parish leaders to help develop teams for spreading the New Evangelization. Or just learn more and enjoy a short presentation on bringing the sacramental, incarnational life into your home. CHILDREN ARE WELCOME!
August 2024
Learn more about Theology of the Body at your parish…
August 2024
Learn more about Theology of the Body at your parish…
April 2024
Interested in attending a TOB Intensive?
Four experiential retreats over the course of the year.
A six-week teaching series introducing St. John Paul II, the foundations of his wisdom, and what it means to live it.
Toward the end of the engagement, we raise up a core team.
Three integrated parts over the course of a year — four Behold Retreats (most held in parishioner homes), a six-week Unpack teaching series, and Equip training that forms a core team of parishioners to lead this work themselves. All of it is built around your parish, not dropped onto it.
We start by meeting with your leadership to strategize — which groups to reach, when to schedule retreats, where Unpack fits in your calendar. From there, the year unfolds at a rhythm you can actually sustain: retreats for teachers, clergy and staff, and core team leaders; a six-week Unpack series in the fall or during Lent; and Equip sessions toward the end to raise up the parishioners who will carry it on.
Equip is the piece that makes this sustainable. It’s a series of sessions — usually two or three near the end of the engagement — where parishioners who’ve been through Behold or Unpack learn how to lead retreats themselves. In their homes. With their friends and families. In their Bible studies and small groups. The goal is that when we leave, the mission doesn’t.
A core group of parishioners who are living this and passing it on. We’ve watched alumni host Behold Retreats in their own living rooms, lead small groups through the material, and shape the formation culture of their parish long after our engagement ended. That’s not a best-case scenario — that’s the design.
No. Unpack and Behold Retreats are built to introduce it — St. John Paul II’s background, the foundations, what he was trying to do. We start where your parish is.
No — and this is one of the most common misunderstandings we address. St. John Paul’s wisdom isn’t primarily about issues of morality. It’s an incredible worldview that reshapes how you pray, how you see yourself, how you live in your family, how you encounter Jesus. Morality, ethical choices flow downstream from it. We start upstream.
