Resources for Adult Catechesis/Catholic Bible Study

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“Hey, Joe”, says Father Micheal. “I’m having a little meeting with some folks about parish leadership on Tuesday night. Wanna drop by? I’d love to hear what you think on some issues.”

“Sure, Father”, says good little Catholic me.

By the time I left, I found myself a pastoral appointee to the parish council, representing the Faith Formation Commitee and even worse, found that some idiot (ie, me) had volunteered me to be the Adult Catechism Coordinator.

Does anyone have any ideas on resources for adult catechesis at the parish level? The coordinator positrion has been a revolving door for a while, and no one at Church seems to know where the previous program details are anymore. I have to start from scratch.

Thanks in advance for any help at all.
 
Congratulations!🙂 My mom is on the faith formation and adult catechesis committee at our parish and they are using the adult catechism put out by the Bishops. I can’t remember the exact name of it, will have to call her. They are starting next Tuesday evening. As for Catholic bible study, I can’t say enough of Jeff Cavins Great Adventure Bible study. I am on the youth council at our church and we are starting the Teentimeline of the Great Adventure on Sept. 6th for the high schoolers.
 
there are a couple threads already existing that contain some ideas that might be useful to you. A and B and C threads
 
Thanks for the three links they are all very informative. I am a convert from Southern Baptist (6yrs) and find the same difficulty as many of you do. It is just hard for me to understand how this great gift Jesus gave us (the Catholic Faith) is “squandered” away with relativism within our own pews. I love my faith and the Church that provides me with the guidance to understanding scripture…before my conversion it was left up to me…and my infaluable interpretation 😉 I now see many Catholics which choose from which part of the CCC to follow and it saddens me to see the protestant mindset creeping in…

I attend Mass on a military base and we have to share our sacred areas…The protestants have 6 Bible Study Groups…as far as the Catholics (which outnumber the Protestants) we have None. Therefore, many of the Catholics attend the Protestant study groups (if for nothing more than a social interaction). I find this very disturbing and the theology at these study groups are definitely not Catholic and do not encourage folks to attend.

I plan on speaking to the Priest and trying to get something going among the Catholics however, I know it will likely be left up to me in the end. I see these same problems mentioned throughout this thread in the Military Archdiocese, however, with sharing a location with Non-Catholics some Priests are worried they will upset somebody if you place something like “Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth” in a common area…even CDs from the Mary Foundation have been sitting waiting to get reviewed prior to approval…

Pls pray for our military and especially the evangelization of our Catholic families.

God Bless
 
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Does anyone have any ideas on resources for adult catechesis at the parish level? The coordinator positrion has been a revolving door for a while, and no one at Church seems to know where the previous program details are anymore. I have to start from scratch.

Thanks in advance for any help at all.
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first are you talking about RCIA, brining non-Catholic adults into the Church? because that is a whole 'nother issue.

if you are talking about serving adults of the parish with catechesis and scripture study, I can suggest first reading the document on that issue, with study guide, from the US Bishops it is on their website usccb.org with a title that is easily recognizable, but I can’t remember it. this is for you and your committee members (and draft yourself a small committee if only to help with phone calls and stuff, right away).

US Catholic Catechism for Adults is excellent for a one year program, of one-hour sessions. also available from the bishops in bulk parish pricing, also through most Catholic textbook publishers, possibly with better pricing. USCCB has on line or hard copy study resources. OSV has a student workbook and study guide, which is what we are using. In fact, this is now going to be the basis of our catechist formation as well. We use it for adult Catholics preparing for Confirmation, too.

for parish bible studies look at catholicexchange.com, and at emmaus road studies sold through the cuf.org website.
 
Thanks, Puzzleannie, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Got me on a great start.
 
Hi Johenz 👋 Nice to see another Hoosier!

A couple of parishes around here have gotten big responses for the Great Adventure.

And, our parish had a big turnout to watch the Fr. Corapi video tapes on the Catechism. I was surprised so many would come out for videotapes.
 
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