On fire!!

Carlos | January 26, 2010

Have you ever had one of those nights where you look back and think, “wow” or a night that you wish you could repeat every week?  For me, last night was one of those nights. When I arrived at Church for Religious Education, my CRE asked if I would be willing to merge my class with [...]

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The Game of Life

Carlos | January 15, 2010

Hey!  You guys may not remember me.  I’m the Catechist that used to post on this blog.  It’s been how long?  Oh yeah, a month and a half.  I’m embarrassed by the fact that I haven’t posted in so long.  Life got a little bit crazy for me in December.  Work picked up as we [...]

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Carlos

My name is Carlos Torres, and for better or for worse, I am a Catechist. As a Catechist, I help supplement the religious education that parents give at home with focused and detailed lessons around Scripture and Tradition as taught by the Church. Now, I have no background in teaching, much less in dealing with a group of tweens and teens who don’t want to be with me, in a classroom, on a weeknight, learning about faith; yet week after week, I and many other Catechists do just that by letting the Holy Spirit guide us in planting those seeds and helping fulfill the Church’s mission to “go and make disciples”.