What about catechesis today? A catechism-based catechesis seems to be the ordinary catechesis our schools, parishes and dioceses still follow, often in a classroom setting. We learned through a catechism-based catechesis. Most people my age learned their faith the same way, I would guess. I can still recite those questions and answers from the Baltimore Catechism of my youth. Why did God make you? God made me to know him, to love him and to serve him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next. Who is God? God is a pure spirit, infinitely perfect. Mary plays an important role in the mysteries of Jesus Christ. Some of the first feasts of the Christmas celebration were celebrated here. The feast is linked to the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, September 14th.Īugust 4th is the feast of John Vianney, patron of parish priests.Īugust 5 we celebrate The dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, the most important church in Rome dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God. Most of the week we read from the Prophet Jeremiah and Nahum, from the time of the fall of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. Of all the prophets, Jeremiah appears closest to Jesus, the Suffering Servant.Īugust 6th is the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus, a feast originally celebrated by the eastern churches, then adopted by the western church. Matthew follows Mark’s narrative but softens Mark’s picture of the disciples and is less harsh on them for their unbelief. Readings this week from Matthew’s gospel, chapters 14-17 offer the first of Matthew’s accounts of the miracle of the loaves and fish, the cure of the daughter of the Canaanite woman, the miracle of the storm at sea, and the confession of faith led by Peter. August 1 Mon Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the ChurchĢ Tue Weekday
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