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, within
Christianity, that
the Catholic
Church has the
fullness of the
truth.

     So..?
we Catholics have a grave
responsibility for educating a
world 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 provide
  a 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

         2. Trust the Catechism

3. Share the Catechism
       4. Adapt the Catechism
                 5. Live the Catechism
1. Know the Catechism.


                         Meditating
  Reading



                             Teaching


   Group learning   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 Catechism is
 written in four parts:


• The Profession of Faith
• The Celebration of the
  Christian Mystery
• Life in Christ
• Christian Prayer
• 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.
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."
Introduction to ccc