Catechetical methods
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This document discusses methods in catechetical ministry. It notes that while there is variety in methods, this variety shows respect for those being catechized and is a sign of life as long as it is useful and does not harm unity in faith. The effectiveness of any method depends partly on the competence of the catechist using it. The catechist plays a decisive role in discerning and choosing which method to use based on the concrete situation of those being catechized. While there are many techniques that can be used, it is the catechist who judges which will be most effective. All methods can be useful if chosen and implemented well by the catechist.
Catechetical methods
- 2. METHOD: a procedure or process for attaining an object: as systematic procedure, techniques or mode of inquiry, or a way , technique or process of or for doing something. Common Elements: Interpretations, planning, and implementing the simple multiplicity or variety of methods in the Catechetical ministry is not a problem. Rather the variety of methods is a sign of life and richness, showing respect for those being catechized, as long as the variety is useful and not harmful to the unity of the one Faith. any Catechetical method is dependent, albeit partly, on the competence of the Catechist using it for its effectiveness.
- 3. Catechist plays a decisive role in discerning and choosing a certain method and putting it into practice. between various possible methodologies and the actual use of one, the practical “wisdom” and “creativity” of the Catechist is the determining key. it’s the catechist who makes the decision in the “here and now” about how the Good News most effectively be communicated in the concrete situation of those being catechized. With flexibility, the catechist chooses from a variety of techniques in the class procedure; the question, the pantomime, the demonstration, the drama, the story telling, the use of slides, or films, charts, or pictures, outlines, action songs.
- 4. All methods can be useful but it is the catechist that judges and makes the practical decision. the catechist must be a person of prayer. Basic Problem of Catechetical and Methodology: Achieving the proper balance between the God-inspired content (Revelation) to be proclaimed/ communicated, and the method chosen for this proclamation in the specific context of the catechesis.
- 5. 1. the Effectivity of any methodology depends on its intelligent use. Catechist must be trained , for example in how to carry on an experiential catechesis by drawing out and exemplifying their lessons- the Christian meanings and values. 2. there is no single best method of categorizing This true both by reason of those being catechized, as well as from the perspective of the “Good News” itself. 3. Despite this plurality of methodologies, can be offered: every adequate catechetical methodology must be grounded explicitly of three basis: Scripture, Tradition, and Human Experience. Without Scripture, there is no Christian Message, without Tradition, there is no Christian Community, incarnating and passing on the living word of God. Without Human Experience in its full sweep-personal, interpersonal, societal, cosmic, and transcendent-there are no hearer of the Message
- 6. 4. The forth directive focuses on the Total Catechetical environment. the operational selectivity of every Catechetical method depends in great part on the Socio-Religious and Socio-Cultural contexts of the Catechesis. 5. The fifth directive is: All catechetical methods gain their efficacy ultimately only through the Work of the Holy Spirit.