{"id":4886,"date":"2013-05-30T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marccardaronella.com\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2020-09-10T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:16:20","slug":"towards-evangelizing-catechesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marccardaronella.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/towards-evangelizing-catechesis\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Steps Toward an Evangelizing Catechesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"steps-evangelizing-catechesis\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What does an evangelizing catechesis look like?<\/p>\n

In my last post<\/a>, I wrote how\u00a0the first stage of the catechetical process\u00a0should be about conversion.<\/p>\n

This is how were made to\u00a0understand God’s revelation. Faith first, then grow that faith through deeper education.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t work well if you educate\u00a0without faith. But this is what we’ve been doing for a long time…long before Vatican II.<\/p>\n

In missionary catechesis (and the RCIA), conversion happens in the pre-catechumenate<\/a>. So, what if we used the pre-catechumenate to structure our evangelizing catechesis?<\/p>\n

And…what luck! The Church threw us a bone here. Let’s take a look.
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Goals of the pre-catechumenate<\/h2>\n

Paragraph 42 in the RCIA manual gives criteria for participation in\u00a0the Rite of Acceptance. This rite is a gateway. It marks the transition from the pre-catechumenate to the next phase of the process, appropriately named, the catechumenate (there’s a lot of “cate-” words in the RCIA…remind me to tell you about that sometime).<\/p>\n

To participate in the rite and move to the next phase, a candidate\u00a0should show these signs:<\/p>\n