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Monthly Archives: February 2022
Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us 88-90: Six Dimensions
The US Bishops published Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us in 1999. In Part III A Plan for Ministry, the bishops outline Six Dimensions received from the General Directory for Catechesis 84-87. They quote it: The maturation of the Christian life requires … Continue reading
Spe Salvi 5: Myth and Superstition Give No Solace
We continue our lead-up to the Jubilee of Hope scheduled for 2025. We might need a good dollop of that particular virtue to get us there in one piece. Let’s continue with Pope Benedict XVI as we examine New Testament … Continue reading
Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us 84-87: Four Inculturation Principles
Principles ten through thirteen look to inculturation. We begin with a quote from Pope John Paul II’s Catechesi Tradendae: “Bring the power of the Gospel into the very heart of culture and cultures.” (84) Let the gifts of culture enrich … Continue reading
Spe Salvi 4: Hope in the New Testament and Early Church
4. We have raised the question: can our encounter with the God who in Christ has shown us his face and opened his heart be for us too not just “informative” but “performative”—that is to say, can it change our … Continue reading
Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us 81-83: Principles for Conducting Adult Faith Formation
With this post, we look at three more principles from Part III A Plan for Ministry: how to actually do it. Use the catechumenate as an inspiring model for all catechesis. (81) Respect the different learning styles and needs of … Continue reading
Things I Knew Before Today And Things I Did Not
I did know that in geographic area Ukraine is the largest European country aside from Russia. I did not know that it is the most impoverished European nation. One of my best friends in high school had a Ukrainian ethnic … Continue reading
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Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us 78-80
We’re continuing today with more Principles for Adult Faith Formation. These address planning: 4. Give adult faith formation the best of our pastoral resources and energies. (78) 5. Make adult faith formation essential and integral to the pastoral plan of … Continue reading
Goddesses Give Way To Saints
For nearly a century, pagan figures ruled the asteroid belt. Astronomers naming the small worlds between Mars and Jupiter looked to the tradition of naming the planets. If Greek and Roman pagan religion inspired solar system labels, why not extend … Continue reading
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Spe Salvi 3: Faith Is Hope, The Witness of Josephine Bakhita
Faith is Hope 3. Yet at this point a question arises: in what does this hope consist which, as hope, is “redemption”? The essence of the answer is given in the phrase from the Letter to the Ephesians quoted above: … Continue reading
Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us 74-77: Three General Principles for Adult Faith Formation
As we head to the center of the US Bishops’ Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us we encounter thirteen principles to guide the goals of adult faith formation. In this post, we’ll look at three General Principles for Adult Faith … Continue reading
Life In Color/Colour
David Attenborough is like the Walter Cronkite of nature documentary hosts. While outside whited itself out, inside there was color on the morning tube. Life in Color is the latest Netflix/Attenborough collaboration. It’s an excellent one. It has the advances … Continue reading
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Spe Salvi 2: Faith Is Hope
Before paragraphs 2 and 3, Pope Benedict asserts “Faith is Hope.” What does he mean? He begins with the New Testament: 2. Before turning our attention to these timely questions, we must listen a little more closely to the Bible’s … Continue reading
Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us 67-73: Formation Goals
The US Bishops’ Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us outlined Three Major Goals for Adult Faith Formation in paragraphs 67 through 73. They cite the Vatican corollary to OHWB, Adult Catechesis in the Christian Community. What does the Vatican stress in catechesis … Continue reading
Gather IV Review Part 3: Psalms and Canticles
GIA’s newest edition of the Gather hymnal devotes many pages, and numbers 28 through 117, to Psalms and Canticles. Just because these settings are stuck in the “Psalter” a lot of music directors confine themselves to dropping them in the … Continue reading
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Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us 64-66: A Plan For Ministry
Moving into Part III of Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us in 1999. These paragraphs through 112 will cover “A Plan for Ministry—Goals, Principles, Content, and Approaches for Adult Faith Formation.” The US bishops will consider “all the faith dimensions … Continue reading
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