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 [...]

Parental Guidance Suggested

| September 25, 2009

We had our first Religious Education session this week for our 6th graders.  The evening started with a meeting for parents and students to review what the year has in store.  Our CRE reviewed our schedule, highlighting some new things we will be trying with them this year, including a retreat around the Ten Commandments. [...]

Fighting “The Real World”?

| May 28, 2009

As a Catechist, one of the biggest currents that you swim against is the students feeling that what you’re teaching isn’t really practical in today’s day and age.  Leave it to the real world to get in the way.  It got in Jesus’s way, in the Apostles’ way and in many Saints’ way, so why [...]

All Parents are NOT Created Equal!

| May 12, 2009

While most people would think that the statement in the title is obvious, I never appreciated just how “not equal” parents can be.  One of the biggest disappointments I found from teaching this past year was seeing that in some cases, what I was teaching in Religious Education class was not actively supported or practiced [...]

About the author

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”.