Evangelizing Catechesis in Sacramental Formation
JC Moreno, MAAssociate Director, Office of Evangelization
And Catechesis, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
Itinerary
Sharing of principles toward a renewal of sacramental formation in
1. Infant Baptism – Day 12. First Sacraments – Day 23. Confirmation for Adults – Day 3
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Infant Baptismal Prep Issues and possibilities
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Religious Education: Broken/Not Broken
Religious Education-Broken?
• https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/religious-education%E2%80%94broken
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• Religious Education isBroken
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/01/10/religious-education-broken-its-time-fix-our-sunday-school-culture
Resources may be found athttp://bit.ly/2017ND
Issues Reported
• Mass attendance• religious education• Collapse of ecology of institutions• Old models don’t work in new
realities
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Issues Reported
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“• She is no longer, as she
once was, a Church composed of pagans who have become Christians, but a Church of pagans, who still call themselves Christians, but actually have become pagans.” • Fr. Ratzinger 1958• Pope Emeritus 2014
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Great Comission
“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”
• 1-Go Out and make disciples• 2-baptize them• 3-teach them
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The Christian faith is, above all, conversion to Jesus Christ, full and sincere adherence to his person and the decision to walk in his footsteps. Faith is a personal encounter with Jesus Christ making, of oneself a disciple of him. This demands a permanent commitment to think like him, to judge like him and to live as he lived. In this way the believer unites himself to the community of disciples and appropriates the faith of the Church.
GDC 53
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Models
• PREP or Parish Renewal Process• http://divinemercyofourlord.org/pa
rish-renewal-process
• Fr. Robert Mallon• Towards a New Model of Pastoral
Care of the Sacraments at Saint Benedict Parish
• https://www.dioceseofjoliet.org/siteimages/reo/documents/NewModelPastoralCareSacraments.pdf
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Parish Renewal Process
• “Renewal” because it offers an opportunity for Initiated Catholics to re-discover the full meaning of our Baptism into Christ through the Holy Spirit in order to live it ever so faithfully
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http://divinemercyofourlord.org/parish-renewal-process
Fr. Robert Mallon
• Centrality of discipleship
• Small Christian Communities
• Importance of Welcome
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• Meet them were theyare
• Catechumenal Model
• Evangelizing Catechesis
• Incarnational Catechesis
• Mystagogy
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