Catechists Unite!!

| August 28, 2009

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in three events that have brought Catechists together to share ideas, tips and other information to help us all further our ministry.  It started with a webinar hosted by Joe Paprocki from Catechist’s Journey.  Joe broke his webinar into two parts.  It was an [...]

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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 [...]

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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”.