Four C‟s

of

Catechesis

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Four C‟s

of

Catechesis

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20071116.htm

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Communion

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Context• countless resources

• technology

• secular / materialistic

• individual rights

• disintegration of structures

• Religious instruction competes with

multiple options

Context• a majority of US teens

practice religious faith

only sporadically or not

at all

Context• a majority of US teens

practice religious faith

only sporadically or not

at all

• a majority of US teens

tend to be like their

parents when it comes

to religion

Context• Is it enough to invite people

"to act according to their

consciences?“

• Is it all right to "become more

human or more faithful to their

own religion“

• Is it satisfactory "to build

communities which strive for

justice, freedom, peace and

solidarity.”

Context• Might it be that “conversion

to Christ should not be

promoted because it is

possible for people to be

saved without explicit faith in

Christ or formal incorporation

in the Church?”

Context"Provided that it is done with full respect

for their human dignity and freedom, if a

Christian did not try to spread the Gospel

by sharing the excelling knowledge of

Jesus Christ with others, we could

suspect that Christian either of lack of

total conviction on the faith, or of

selfishness and laziness in not wanting to

share the full and abundant means of

salvation with his fellow human beings."

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Content

Communion

Conspiracy

Content• adolescent religious

and spiritual

understanding and

concern seems to be

generally weak.

“Religious literacy has sunk

to a new low.”

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“Religious literacy has sunk

to a new low.”

Content

about the “lost generation”

and the “undercatechized”

to depict the current state

of our younger

generations of adults.

Content

Content

www.usccb.org/education/framework.pdf

Serves to aid those

• responsible for overseeing catechetical

instruction within dioceses as well as

Serves to aid those

• responsible for overseeing catechetical

instruction within dioceses as well as

• those responsible for curriculum

development or

Serves to aid those

• responsible for overseeing catechetical

instruction within dioceses as well as

• those responsible for curriculum

development or

• (those responsible for) the development

of assessment instruments designed to

complement texts, programs or

curriculums.

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of Jesus Christ in Scripture

• Who Is Jesus Christ?

• The Mission of Jesus Christ (The Paschal Mystery)

• Jesus Christ‟s Mission Continues in the Church

• Sacraments as Privileged Encounters with Jesus Christ

• Life in Jesus Christ

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of Jesus Christ in Scripture

• Who Is Jesus Christ?

• The Mission of Jesus Christ(The Paschal Mystery)

• Jesus Christ„s Mission Continues in the Church

• Sacraments as Privileged Encounters with Jesus Christ

• Life in Jesus Christ

Core Curriculum

The Christological

centrality of this

framework is designed to

form the content of

instruction as well as to

be a vehicle for growth in

one’s relationship with

the Lord so that each

may come to know him

and live according to the

truth he has given to us.

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of

Jesus Christ in Scripture

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of

Jesus Christ in Scripture

• Who Is Jesus Christ?

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of

Jesus Christ in Scripture

• Who Is Jesus Christ?

• The Mission of Jesus Christ

(The Paschal Mystery)

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of

Jesus Christ in Scripture

• Who Is Jesus Christ?

• The Mission of Jesus Christ

(The Paschal Mystery)

• Jesus Christ‟s Mission

Continues in the Church

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of

Jesus Christ in Scripture

• Who Is Jesus Christ?

• The Mission of Jesus Christ

(The Paschal Mystery)

• Jesus Christ‟s Mission

Continues in the Church

• Sacraments as Privileged

Encounters with Jesus Christ

Core Curriculum

• The Revelation of Jesus Christ in Scripture

• Who Is Jesus Christ?

• The Mission of Jesus Christ (The Paschal Mystery)

• Jesus Christ‟s Mission Continues in the Church

• Sacraments as Privileged Encounters with Jesus Christ

• Life in Jesus Christ

Electives

Electives

• Sacred Scripture

Electives

• Sacred Scripture

• History of the Catholic

Church

Electives

• Sacred Scripture

• History of the Catholic

Church

• Living as a Disciple of

Jesus Christ in

Society

Electives

• Sacred Scripture

• History of the Catholic

Church

• Living as a Disciple of

Jesus Christ in

Society

• Responding to the

Call of Jesus Christ

Electives

• Sacred Scripture

• History of the Catholic Church

• Living as a Disciple of Jesus Christ in Society

• Responding to the Call of Jesus Christ

• Ecumenical and Interreligious Issues

“The definitive aim of catechesis is to put

people not only in touch but in

communion, in intimacy, with

Jesus Christ.”

(Catechesi Tradendae, 5)

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . .

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What‟s Next

• Content is set . . .

Good thing

• Opportunity for

collaboration

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

– But also as witnesses of the faith

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

– But also as witnesses of the faith

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

– But also as witnesses of the faith

What‟s Next

• Content is set . . . Good thing

• Opportunity for collaboration

• Time to “Game Up” on prepping our catechists

– Not only on content

– But also as witnesses of the faith

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Content

Communion

Conspiracy

Communion

Communion

Communion• community in a deep and

profound sense

Communion• community in a deep and

profound sense

• acknowledgement of gifts

and acceptance of these

gifts

CommunionLoughlan Sofield, ST

• defined collaboration as

“the working together of all

the baptized; each

contributing personal gifts,

for the good of the

CommunionLoughlan Sofield, ST

“if we don‟t collaborate,

• people die…spiritually.”

• “condemned to be a

church of maintenance,

rather than a church of

mission”

CommunionLoughlan Sofield, ST

Collaboration is not an

option, but it is the “way

mature Christians work

together.”

Communion"The love which comes

from God unites us to him

and „makes us a we which

transcends our divisions

and makes us one, until in

the end God is all in all."

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Communion

Conspiracy

Conspiracycon·spire

Pronunciation: \kən- s̍pī(-ə)r\

Function: verb

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-

French conspirer, from Latin conspirare to

be in harmony, conspire, from com- +

spirare to breathe

- - to act in harmony toward a common end

Conspiracy"Conversion" is a

"change in thinking and

of acting," expressing

our new life in Christ; it

is an ongoing dimension

of Christian life.

ConspiracyThe network of

friendship with Christ

which connects heaven

and earth, different

continents and ages."

Knowledge of the faith is so very

important, but what you do with that

knowledge is ever so much more

important. Likewise the talents and

gifts that God gives us – how do we

spend them? And at the heart of it all

is love – how selflessly do we express

it?

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Heart

living

Affective

feel

Head

explicit

Cognitive

know

Fruitful

Behavioral

do

Hands

You shall love the

Lord your God

• with all your heart,

• with all your soul,

• with all your mind,

• and with all your strength.'

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