Moving Backwards

| November 2, 2009

Tonight’s class was not a good class, but honestly I suspected it would be challenging.  Classes last for one hour.  Normally, I take control from the very beginning and can maintain it throughout that hour.  Tonight however, we had every student go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation.  While I love this sacrament and profess it’s [...]

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Weekly Roundup x 2

| October 9, 2009

The last two weeks have been crazy, to say the least. Religious Education classes are underway, I had my last session for my Introduction to Catechesis course last week, work has been busier then usual and home life has been action packed as well. So, I am once again behind in posting here on Catechist [...]

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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”.