Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

We’re looking ahead to our next Confirmation intensive on January 5, after the Christmas break. The theme of this one is: Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk.

As Confirmed Catholics, our young people will need to be able to talk about their faith. Of course, the Nicene Creed is the “alphabet” – the building blocks – of our language of faith. It is the first place to go to search for words to respond to people who ask us what we believe as Catholics. The first thing we will do for this intensive is “present” the Nicene Creed to our young people and focus on its significance for our faith. Talk the Talk.

The remainder of the evening will have the young people once again rotating between the five 8th grade catechists for mini-sessions that  focus on how, as Confirmed Catholics, our young people will be called to put their faith into action: to walk the walk.

The mini-sessions will focus on the following:

• Service
• Justice
• the Beatitudes
• the Corporal Works of Mercy
• the Spiritual Works of Mercy

In my upcoming posts, I’ll share how each of those mini-sessions will attempt to address each of these topics. Once again, each of the mini-sessions (learning stations) will include some task that the young people need to perform so that they continue to get the message that they are the ones being asked to acquire new skills and new learnings on their way to becoming fully initiated Catholics. The more that we catechists focus on what OUR STUDENTS WILL DO in each session (rather than on what WE will be doing), the more effective we will be.

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