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Introduction

After a life in this work, the Church’s call to teach for discipleship has made me more excited than ever before, and it is exactly what is needed at this time.

This book addresses several questions:

What is the Church’s catechetical call to us and why does it make sense?

What are the challenges contained in this catechetical call?

How is it different than our past approaches?

What are some key characteristics of teaching for discipleship?

How might we sustain our ministerial commitment?

We carry the weight of the Church’s catechetical hopes on our backs and in our hearts. It is good and noble work. I so hope that you find this book helpful and worth the read.

Our passion for this ministry sometimes fuels professional arguments about the correct way to approach catechetics. Critical reflection on our work is a good, constructive, and necessary thing. But sometimes … not so much.

Working on her doctoral research several years ago, my wife, Cathy, showed me something the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Rumi wrote:

Out beyond right doing and wrong doing

there is a field.

I will meet you there.

I tried to write this book from that place.