“Let’s just stop catechising children”
Joanne McPortland over at Patheos has been causing something of a stir… She is proposing that what is wrong with the parish formation set-up is…
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‘One Message’ Formation
Tomorrow I am going to a parish to lead a formation session with some Confirmation catechists. I think few of them have been catechists before,…
“Sacramentalisation”
This time of year, filled with First Holy Communions and Confirmations, is full of joy. It is also a time where we risk “sacramentalising” another…
How long?
Here I am, still marvelling every day at where I’ve landed, right on the south coast. A lot of adjustment is going on: from the…
He who sings prays twice
Up until this year, I never seriously thought about including singing in catechesis. I noticed in some of the resources we use that they recommended…
Discipline in catechesis
Throughout the year, and depending on the children you catechise, this can very quickly become a talking point. One year, a particularly difficult Confirmation group…
Teenagers will be teenagers
Yesterday late afternoon I was on a bus from Chelsea heading back down south over the river. It was the time of day when kids…
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