Catholic Echo

01/04/2024

The Parts of the Easter Vigil
The Service of Light. ...
Liturgy of the Word. ...
Liturgy of Baptism. ...
Liturgy of the Eucharist.

01/04/2024

Easter time is the period of 50 days, spanning from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. It is celebrated as a single joyful feast, called the "great Lord's Day"

24/01/2023

Your child spends about 35 hrs per week for about 40 weeks in a year at school.
Your child spends 1 hr a week for less than 40 weeks in a year at catechism.

24/08/2022

27/02/2022

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06/12/2021

(1) INTIMACY WITH JESUS : THE FUEL IN YOUR TANK
Develop your personal relationship with Jesus. Realize more deeply the outstanding truth of the divine indwelling. Look to our models, the three who stood at the foot of the cross: Mary, Mary Magdalene and John.
(2) SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE FOR CHRIST
Being motivated and developing means to stay enthusiastic about carrying on Christ's mission and not getting burnout for those involved in Church ministry.
(3) LEADING STUDENTS INTO SCRIPTURE
Use practical and creative activities with examples that entice students to read Scripture and which enable them to understand and love it. Teach them to use God's Word in prayer. Ideas can be adapted for different age levels in sessions.
(4) LEADING STUDENTS INTO PRAYER
Use ways to teach prayer that shapes attitudes towards prayer, cultivating habits of prayer and introducing different prayer forms. Catechist of various levels should incorporate in their lessons ways to enrich also their own spiritual lives.

09/11/2021

Long before the New Testament books were written—before any churches were built, before the first disciple died as a martyr for the faith—the Mass was the center of life for the Church.

St. Luke sums it up in the Acts of the Apostles: “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers” (Acts 2:42). Luke manages to
get so much detail into that single sentence. The first Christians were eucharistic by nature: they gathered for “the breaking of the bread and the prayers.” They were formed by the Word of God, the “apostles’ teaching.” When they met as a Church, their worship culminated in “fellowship”—the Greek word is koinonia, communion.

The Mass was the center of life for the disciples of Jesus, and so it has ever been. Even today, the Mass is where we experience the apostolic teaching and communion, the breaking of the bread and the prayers.

St. Luke focuses primarily on the externals, which are mighty by themselves, but the Mass is still so much more.

—from “Signs of Life” at bit.ly/36hUEY9

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