Gente Puente: Catholic Hispanic Ministry Best Practices

36. Preparing Adults for Confirmation
Patti Gutiérrez
Juan Carlos Moreno
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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