Gente Puente: Catholic Hispanic Ministry Best Practices

36. Preparing Adults for Confirmation
Patti Gutiérrez Juan Carlos Moreno patticc.com/36 patticc.com/s36 Juan Carlos Moreno, Associate Diocesan Director in Galveston-Houston, shares about the program they developed to prepare adults for the Sacrament of Confirmation and how you can get access to it! Recommended Resources: Catholic Translation Services by Patti’s Catholic Corner – specializing in Marriage Tribunal Materials Free Cheat Sheet: Top Ten Tribunal Key Terms in English & Spanish with canon citations Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Office of Evangelization and Catechesis Email Juan Carlos Moreno Full-disclosure: Some of these links are affiliate links which means I earn income from qualified purchases which helps fund this podcast. United States Catholic Catechism for Adults National Directory for Catechesis – A companion to the General Directory for Catechesis (GDC), it builds on some of the core themes of the GDC like catechesis’s relationship to evangelization and worship. The Six Tasks of Catechesis: Key Principles and Practices for Forming Faith – describes the six tasks of catechesis: knowledge of the faith, liturgical education, moral formation, learning to pray, growing in community life and working for the mission of the Church. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Study Edition Upcoming Events: * Oct 1-4, 2019 – Annual Conference of the National Catholic Association of Diocesan Directors for Hispanic Ministry (NCADDHM) which will be in Minneapolis, MN this year.* October 6 – 9, 2019 – Annual Conference of the International Catholic Stewardship Council in Chicago, IL. http://catholicstewardship.com Brochure. * Oct 24-27, 2019 – Annual Membership Meeting of La Red (National Catholic Network of Pastoral Juvenil Hispana) in Attleboro, MA* November 21-23, 2019 – National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) in Indianapolis, IN. ncyc.info Introduction Greetings Gente Puente! In this episode, Juan Carlos Moreno, Associate Director of the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, shares about the program they developed to prepare adults for the Sacrament of Confirmation and how you can get access to it! We need to recover that sense of the catechumenate – taking people through stages, leading them to conversion and that encounter with Christ, not just assume that they have it. Juan Carlos Moreno