Educational Resource
Lessons Plans for Prayer: The Faith Prayed (2017)
Lessons Plans for Prayer: The Faith Prayed, theme for the Diocesan Educational/Catechetical Leadership Institute
The bishop chairmen for the Committees on Catholic Education and Evangelization and Catechesis (USCCB) approved the Leadership Institute theme as “Prayer: The Faith Prayed”. This theme and its eight webinars are in support of the Committee’s priority activity related to catechetical leader and catechist formation. The series is based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church (nos. 2558-2865) and the United States Catholic Catechism of Adults, (chapters 35-36).
The target audience for the series includes parish catechetical leaders who may not have had the opportunity for formal training in prayer, as well as catechists (at all levels and settings), Catholic school teachers, participants and leaders of adult faith formation, and parents providing formal catechesis for their children at home.
Participants will respond favorably to catechist formation when they experience that it helps them to live as missionary disciples of Jesus Christ and to more faithfully and effectively hand on the faith.
For those dioceses who choose to use the series as a component of their catechist certification program, catechists could be granted credit for initial formation in the prayer component. In addition, they may also receive credit for ongoing formation by reading and discussing one or more of the additional ‘bonus’ articles.