Goodbye 6′ers. Hello 9′ers.

| July 16, 2010

No, I’m not switching sports teams; but I am switching grades.  Due to some schedule changes going on at the parish for religious education, I will not be teaching 6th grade next year.  Instead, I’ll be moving up to 9th graders. To be honest, that’s somewhat intimidating to me.  I remember what high school was [...]

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Hitting a Brick Wall

| July 12, 2010

Spiritually speaking, I feel like I’ve been hitting a brick wall lately.  I feel like the passion is gone.  I feel like I’m talking into dead air.  I feel like there is no one listening or answering.  HELLO-O-O-o-o-o …  See?  Echo.  That’s what prayer has felt like lately.  This must be what they mean by [...]

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The First Catechism?

| July 8, 2010

Have you ever heard of The Didache?  Until recently, I had not; but I came across this short treatise.  The Didache is an ancient document of the Church, which is more formally called “The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”.  It is a fairly brief writing that lists the do’s and don’ts for early Christians. Beyond that, [...]

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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”.