What’s Your Catechetical New Year’s Resolution?

Happy New Year, everyone!

While I don’t make a big thing out of New Year’s resolutions, I think it is always good to set goals and to articulate them. As we begin 2024, I thought it would be fun for us to make and share some catechetical New Year’s resolutions! Mine is to cut down on the amount of talking I do during presentations so as to leave more time and space for discussion.

What’s yours?

Here are some suggestions, along with links to resources that can help you achieve your resolution.

• Devote more attention to lesson planning.
• Keep Jesus at the center of my lessons.
• Improve at handling discipline.
• Deepen my own knowledge of the Catholic faith.
• Incorporate more prayer into my sessions.
• Learn how to lead guided reflections.
• Incorporate more Catholic practices.
• Connect faith with daily living better.
• Read and study the Catechism of the Catholic Church and/or the Directory for Catechesis.
• Read Pope Francis’s apostolic letter Evangelii Gaudium or other Church documents.
• Pay more attention to my own spiritual journey.
• Share my faith more openly.
• Incorporate more crafts into my lessons.
• Deepen my own prayer life.
• Incorporate a wider variety of learning activities in my lessons.
• Deepen my understanding of the Mass.
• Learn more about teaching those with disabilities.
• Take time to thoroughly review a catechetical program like Finding God or Christ Our Life.
• Take to heart (memorize) some traditional Catholic prayers and/or formulas of our faith.
• Become better acquainted with the life of Jesus.
• Re-energize my faith.
• Deepen my knowledge of the Bible.
• Devote time in my lessons to explore and reflect on the upcoming Sunday’s Scripture readings.
• Incorporate more Catholic Social Teaching in my lessons.
• Deepen my understanding of the sacraments.
• Incorporate assessment into my lessons.

What else would you add?

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