Introduction to Catechism of the Catholic Church

Year of Faith is a special call to know your Faith and protect it.

• Let us know our Faith.• While we wish our Children to be blessed with

trust in God in all their path of life, our own journey of faith has been observed by them.

• Being literate on CCC might help us in our journey of faith, hence our children.

Let us work together to make our family and parish

literate on CCC.

• CCC is the best book since the Bible.

• Make an Integrated reading of both as a life habit.

There is much joy in Both.

• CCC is great resource of Understanding what we believe.

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church is not a mere collection of doctrines.

• It provides the groundwork for understanding what we Catholics believe.

Catechism of Catholic Church is the guidance of the Holy Spirit for us to understand what we believe.

• The seed of God's revealed truth has been sown into our hearts at Baptism. But that was only the beginning.

We must do everything in our power to grasp the meaning of what we believe.

The world in which we live is hell-bent on stealing from our hearts what we believe.

• That is why the Catechism of the Catholic Church is such a

providential God send. • It provides the believing Catholic

not only with information about

what to believe. • It also gives us an explanation of

the meaning of what we believe.

• Of course, the Catechism is only a start. But it promises to be a powerful initiative for waking up a sleeping Catholic world to the duty that we have to know.

That Christianity is the most credible religion in the world and, withinChristianity, that the Catholic Church has the fullness of the truth.

So..?

we Catholics have a grave responsibility for educating aworld that is wandering in darkness and the shadow of death.

• This Catechism is no mere reference work that we may occasionally consult, like a standard dictionary or encyclopedia.

• This Catechism is no mere summary of religious ideas or ideals that providea readable handbook on how Catholics think.

Then ?

• Catechism is an indispensable arm of instruction on every level of the teaching apostolate.

We now have a one-volume reservoir of Catholic truth and practice for everyone who wants to grow in faith and bring others to Christ.

How to use the Catechism in the apostolate of evangelization and catechesis? There are five recommendations:

1. Know the Catechism

5. Live the Catechism

4. Adapt the Catechism3. Share the Catechism

2. Trust the Catechism

There are five

recommendations

1. Know the Catechism.

Teaching

Group learning

MeditatingReading

Discussing

2. Trust in Catechism. Christ is offering the believing faithful for their spiritual sustenance in a world that is dying out of hunger for the truth.

3. Adapt the Catechism. The Catechism is not simple reading. But neither is it sophisticated and out-of-touch with the vocabulary of the people. In any case, the Catechism contains all the essentials for Catholic faith, morality, and divine worship.

4. Live the Catechism. • God uses holy people as

channels of His grace to others. In the measure of our own union with Him.

• God uses humble people to give others the gift of humility. He uses chaste people as conduits of His grace of chastity; patient people to inspire patience; prayerful people to make others prayerful.

In the world, if we live the Catechism, we become instruments of divine faith to everyone whose life we touch. This, we may say, is the law of spiritual generation. Live the Catechism.

Jesus touched her life She touched many for him

5.Share the Catechism. • Catechism of the Catholic

Church is the masterpiece of sacred wisdom provides us with all the resources we need to meet the spiritual needs of us.

• But we must be convinced that these needs are desperate, and that we have at hand the means of saving the soul of our society.

• The Profession of Faith• The Celebration of the

Christian Mystery• Life in Christ• Christian Prayer

The Catechism is written in four parts:

Is it Authentic ?

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church (or CCC) is a catechism promulgated for the Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II on 11 October 1992, the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.

Authenticity

In reading the "Catechism of the Catholic Church"

we can perceive the wonderful unity of the

mystery of God...—

Pope John Paul II

“I beg you: Study this Catechism with passion and perseverance, Make a sacrifice of your time

for it !

Pope Emeritus Benedictus XVI

• PRAYER• "Lord Jesus, you have given us the Catechism of

the Catholic Church to bring light to those who are walking in darkness and supernatural life to those who are sitting in the shadow of death.”"Enlighten our minds with your revealed truth and inspire our hearts with your divine love — so that by our courageous witness to your Name here on earth we may bring countless souls with us to that heavenly Kingdom for which we were made. Amen."