The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church
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Let us Pray!

• Yesterday at our third scrutiny we listened to
  the reading about jesus raising lazarus from the
  dead.
• I invite you today to reflect on what happened
  after this event in the gospel of John.

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• Catechism is catechesis
• teaching the truths of our faith
• rooted in
• Scripture and Tradition
• Writings of the Fathers of the Church
• Ecumenical Councils of the Church

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Scripture and Tradition

• Kerygma - preaching of the apostles and
  evangelists ei Didache, Q document,
  M and L documents
• Writings of Church Fathers
• Ignatius, Ireneus, Basil, Gregory Nyssa,
  Augustine and Thomas
• Ecumenical Councils of the Church
• Council of Nicea
• Council of Ephesus
• Council of Trent
• And many more.
• Vatican I and Vatican II

Sacred Tradition comes before Sacred Scripture
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• Sacred Tradition comes before Sacred Scripture
• Tradition could be defined as the living
  interpretation of scripture
• Our tradition includes letters and other forms of
  catechesis from the Fathers of the Church
• ei St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote seven
  letters to the people who
  gathered at Antioch in the first century
• St. Clement of Alexandria wrote letters to
  early Christians in Egypt
• St. Justin, the martyr
• St. Jerome

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The Ecumenical Councils

• These councils were often called to settle
  heresies that cropped up from time to time and to
  clarify what the church teaches officially.
• Nicaea - Nicene Creed
• Ephesus - Theotokos
• First lateran
• Most Catholics could not
• read or write in the early church
• so stained glass windows were
• used to explain the faith

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Challenges to faith formation

• Great schism - 1054
• Second great schism - 1378
• Three popes rome - Boniface ix
• Avignon - John XXIII
• - Gregory XII

• In 1415 Martin v was elected and all
  
  
  others declared anti popes.
• Protestant Reformation French Revolution
  Industrial revolution enlightenment post
  modern era

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Catechism of the council of trent - 1566

• First universal catechism
• Divided into four parts
• I. The Apostles Creed
• II. The Sacraments
• III. The Commandments
• Prayer

Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation
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Other catechisms

• Baltimore Catechism 1855-1965
• This is the resource used to teach children the
  basics of the faith
• All Catholics must know by memory the Lords
  Prayer, Hail Mary, Ten commandments, Seven
  Sacraments, Precepts of the church, Gifts of Holy
  Spirit, Fruits of the Spirit, corporal and
  spiritual works of mercy.
• Uses the question and answer format that has
  become the tradition for most catechisms used by
  the church.

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Other catechisms
These catechisms are all from the twentieth
century Catechisms that were produced locally
must contain the seal of a bishop known as
Imprimatur, including a nihil obstat (no
obstacles)
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• In the scheme of things we have a wide variety of
  expressions within our catholic communion
• Conservative - strict translation of original
  documents
• Liberal - attempted to interpret ideas according
  to the present situation of the faithful

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Catechism of Catholic Church -1990

• PART ONE THE PROFESSION Of FAITH
• PART TWO THE CELEBRATION OF THE
  CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
• PART THREE LIFE IN CHRIST
• PART FOUR CHRISTIAN PRAYER

All other catechisms must line themselves up to
this one
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Universal catechisms
Catechismus Romanus
Catechism of Catholic Church

• THE PROFESSION Of FAITH
• THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
• LIFE IN CHRIST
• CHRISTIAN PRAYER

• The Apostles Creed
• The Sacraments
• The Commandments
• Prayer

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Catholic Catechism In the classroom
Grade level catechesis - what does the catechism
say about ?
Did you notice the imprimatur on these texts?
Does it have a nihil obstat? All these texts
must be in line with the catholic catechism
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Permeation with catholic catechism

• Science - Creation/Evolution 42
• care of creation
• L. A. - parable, poetry, Allegory
• Social - human rights, Justice, politics,
  poverty,

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• Lets try a little activity.
• Answer all questions as a group in the next 15
  minutes
• The first group to complete all the questions
  must present their papers to me to win a prize.

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We pray, together!

• Blessed are you, god of all creation
• in your image you have made us
• in your likeness you have formed us
• out of love you have called us each by name
• before we were born, you dedicated us
• prophets to the nations, you appointed us.
• Open our hearts to your word, o God
• as with your prophet jeremiah, guide us
• as with jesus in the synagogue, give us the
  courage to speak your word.
• For we must stand as prophets in the world this
  day.
• For we are you people and you are our god. Amen!

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Any questions?

• Produced by
• David Bouchard, ofs