What makes a good catechist?
As spiritual reading at the moment I’m reading Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard’s Inner Strength for Active Apostles, which was originally published in 1918 and is a…
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The Holiness of God in the Lives …
Yesterday evening I gave a short talk as part of the Faith Matters series, a catechetical series put on in the Westminster Diocese which this…
The Newness of the Gospel Message
It seems to be increasingly common that we meet someone who has no idea what the Christian message is. Even though we are aware of…
The Word of God
This week, as well as enjoying Coldplay’s new album 🙂 I am studying my module on Scripture, and specifically Scripture for catechesis. I remember when…
Effective catechesis
How often do we focus on ‘what we need to teach’ above ‘what is actually being learnt’? This distinction really struck a chord with me…
“The activity and creativity of the catechised”
I am LOVING our Confirmation group at the moment. I know, I know… give it a few months and we’ll see what I’m saying then.…
Adult Formation
I wanted to respond to Marc Cardonella’s post here and also Jonathan F. Sullivan’s here about how to provide adult catechesis that actually attracts people…