• At this global crisis, the family has become the very venue of safety and protection against COVID 19 and the center of many activities.
  • Let us take this opportune time to support and strengthen one another not only of our basic needs in life but above all with our relationships with God.
  • Let us do Family Catechesis as we read and share the Word of God.
  • These guides for family catechesis can also be shared with your friends and good material for group sharing activities.
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Family Catechesis Weekly Guide

Family Catechesis Explained

We all feel a kind of helplessness that we never felt before. Amidst this pandemic, thousands of lives have been lost and people live in fear and hopelessness.  What can we do in this situation? Let us stand firm in our faith. In God alone is our refuge and strength as the Psalmist prays. 

Fellow Catechists, let us not think big or think of others whom we can reach to enliven the spirit to experience a glimpse of hope. Let us look within ourselves and our respective families. 

At this global crisis, the family has become the very venue of safety and protection against COVID 19 and the center of many activities – home-school learning, work from home, home-based business,  home bonding,  among others. Let us take this opportune time to support and strengthen one another not only of our basic needs in life but above all with our relationships with God who alone knows what lies ahead in the future at this time of great uncertainties. Let us do Family Catechesis as we read and share the Word of God.

What does the term “Catechesis” mean?

In Greek (Katechein) the term catechesis means to re-echo what Christ has taught. Thus, catechesis is the delivery of Jesus’ teaching found in what we call the Deposit of Faith which is made up of Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture. The most visible form of the Deposit of Faith is found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Catechesis is the organic, systematic, and re-echoing of Catholic Church teaching to all who will listen.

Catechesis is an education in the faith for children, young people, and adults which includes especially, the teaching of Christian Doctrine imparted, generally speaking, in an organic and systematic way, with a view to imitating the hearers into the fullness of Christian life. (CCC 5, CT 18)

In and among families, the Gospel message should always resound; the core of that message, the kerygma, is what is “most beautiful, most excellent, most appealing and at the same time most necessary”.50 This message “has to occupy the center of all evangelizing activity”.51 It is the first and most important proclamation, “which we must hear again and again in different ways, and which we must always announce in one form or another”.52 Indeed, “nothing is more solid, profound, secure, meaningful and wise than that message”. In effect, “all Christian formation consists of entering more deeply into the kerygma”. 53 Our teaching on marriage and the family cannot fail to be inspired and transformed by this message of love and tenderness; otherwise, it becomes nothing more than the defense of a dry and lifeless doctrine. (Evangelium Gaudium)