see adolescent catechesis with a larger lens

1. Four C‟s
of
Catechesis

4. Hands

5. Know
What??

6. Know
Why??

7. Hands
Know
How??

8. Four C‟s
of
Catechesis

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

10. Context
Content
Communion
Conspiracy

11. Context
Content
Communion
Conspiracy

12. Context
• countless resources
• technology
• secular / materialistic
• individual rights
• disintegration of structures
• Religious instruction competes with
multiple options

13. Context
• a majority of US teens
practice religious faith
only sporadically or not
at all

14. 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

15. 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.”

16. 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?”

17. 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."

18. Context
Content
Communion
Conspiracy

19. Content
• adolescent religious
and spiritual
understanding and
concern seems to be
generally weak.

21. Content
“Religious literacy has sunk
to a new low.”

22. Content
“Religious literacy has sunk
to a new low.”
about the “lost generation”
and the “undercatechized”
to depict the current state
of our younger
generations of adults.

23. Content

24. Content

26. www.usccb.org/education/framework.pdf

27. Serves to aid those
• responsible for overseeing catechetical
instruction within dioceses as well as

28. Serves to aid those
• responsible for overseeing catechetical
instruction within dioceses as well as
• those responsible for curriculum
development or

29. 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.

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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.

33. Core Curriculum
• The Revelation of
Jesus Christ in Scripture

34. Core Curriculum
• The Revelation of
Jesus Christ in Scripture
• Who Is Jesus Christ?

35. Core Curriculum
• The Revelation of
Jesus Christ in Scripture
• Who Is Jesus Christ?
• The Mission of Jesus Christ
(The Paschal Mystery)

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. Electives

40. Electives
• Sacred Scripture

41. Electives
• Sacred Scripture
• History of the Catholic
Church

42. Electives
• Sacred Scripture
• History of the Catholic
Church
• Living as a Disciple of
Jesus Christ in
Society

43. Electives
• Sacred Scripture
• History of the Catholic
Church
• Living as a Disciple of
Jesus Christ in
Society
• Responding to the
Call of Jesus Christ

44. 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

48. “The definitive aim of catechesis is to put
people not only in touch but in
communion, in intimacy, with
Jesus Christ.”
(Catechesi Tradendae, 5)

49. What‟s Next
• Content is set . . .
Good thing

50. What‟s Next
• Content is set . . .
Good thing
• Opportunity for
collaboration

51. What‟s Next
• Content is set . . .
Good thing
• Opportunity for
collaboration
• Time to “Game Up” on
prepping our catechists

52. What‟s Next
• Content is set . . .
Good thing
• Opportunity for
collaboration
• Time to “Game Up” on
prepping our catechists
– Not only on content

53. What‟s Next
• Content is set . . .
Good thing
• Opportunity for
collaboration
• Time to “Game Up” on
prepping our catechists
– Not only on content

54. What‟s Next
• Content is set . . .
Good thing
• Opportunity for
collaboration
• Time to “Game Up” on
prepping our catechists
– Not only on content

55. What‟s Next
• Content is set . . .
Good thing
• Opportunity for
collaboration
• Time to “Game Up” on
prepping our catechists
– Not only on content

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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

60. Context
Content
Communion
Conspiracy

61. Communion

62. Communion

63. Communion
• community in a deep and
profound sense

64. Communion
• community in a deep and
profound sense
• acknowledgement of gifts
and acceptance of these
gifts

65. Communion
Loughlan Sofield, ST
• defined collaboration as
“the working together of all
the baptized; each
contributing personal gifts,
for the good of the

66. Communion
Loughlan Sofield, ST
“if we don‟t collaborate,
• people die…spiritually.”
• “condemned to be a
church of maintenance,
rather than a church of
mission”

67. Communion
Loughlan Sofield, ST
Collaboration is not an
option, but it is the “way
mature Christians work
together.”

68. 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."

69. Context
Content
Communion
Conspiracy

70. Conspiracy
con·spire
Pronunciation: kən-ˈ spī(-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

71. Conspiracy
"Conversion" is a
"change in thinking and
of acting," expressing
our new life in Christ; it
is an ongoing dimension
of Christian life.

72. Conspiracy
The network of
friendship with Christ
which connects heaven
and earth, different
continents and ages."

73. 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?

74. Context
Content
Communion
Conspiracy

75. Heart
Affective
feel
living

76. Head
Cognitive
know
explicit

77. Hands
Behavioral
do
Fruitful

78. 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.'

79. Feet

80. Hands
Feet

81. Hands
Know
… ??
Feet

82. Hands
Know
… ??
Feet

83. Hands
Now
… ??
Feet

84. Hands
Now
WHO ??
Feet

85. am/
home Confession
of faith
Feet
Spiritual