LIVING MINISTRY/ CCRS

MODULE OUTLINES

PARISH CATECHESIS

Aim
The purpose of this module is to enable participants to reflect on the nature of catechesis and its significance in the Church today.

Learning Outcomes

Participants should :

• be familiar with biblical models of catechesis (Emmaus, 2 Timothy 3:14 - 4:2, John 1: 35 - 39)
• recognise the New Testament writings as the basis of subsequent developments in catechesis
• appreciate the relationship between content and method in catechesis
• appreciate the distinction between the evangelisation, catechesis and Religious Education
• be able to communicate what they have learned from adults stance
  
  
  
  
  Learning Process
  
  This will include:
• reflection on personal experience
• related input to deepen understanding
• the gathering of information through reading and listening
• group discussion .
  
  Syllabus Outline
• What is Catechesis?
• Biblical models of catechesis
• An overveiw of the process of catechesis as developed in the earliest days and later practices. (Back to where we started from).
• Catechesis, Evangelisation and Religious Education (Home/School/Parish)
• Content and method in catechesis
• Catechism and directory
• RCIA and/or confirmation/Eucharist/Reconciliation
  
  
  
  
  Assessment for CCRS Students
  
  Participants will be credited with this module upon satisfying both of the following conditions:
• Attendance for at least 80% of the ten hours' contact time
• Successful completion of an Assignment based on some aspect of the content of this module and related to one or more of the identified learning outcomes.

Recommended Reading

Catechism of the Catholic Church
1994, Geoffrey Chapman

The General Directory for Catechesis in Plain English - A Summary and Commentary.

Bill Huebsch

Sample Assignment Titles

Examples of assignment titles are:

- " The heart of modern catechetics is teaching from life... It is not surprising that after twenty centuries we should rediscover the fact that Christ understood better than anyone the best way to teach religion" Discuss with reference to key text and your own experience of the process of catechesis.

- Using the process of the Pastoral Cycle, develop a session for the use with one of the following groups:-

• RCIA
• First Communion Parents
• Confirmation Group
• Parents Seeking Baptism

Decide what subject would be the focus.

For each stage of the cycle describe the method/activity, questions you would ask and thinking/theology behind the process.