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To: jo kus
"If I may, I would like to suggest the book that I used when I taught RCIA this year: Essentials of the Faith, Updated. A Guide to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, by Alfred McBride"

Thanks for the reference. I'll get a copy and give it a read.

"Excellent primer on the Catechism of the Church. Has a chapter of 5 or so pages that covers roughly 50-100 paragraphs of the Catechism. It WAS my syllabus, for the most part! I highly recommend it to those who are not inclined to read the 800 page Catechism (I offer that book to the class as a reference, since I doubt many will read it cover to cover. But the "Guide", they DO read!)"

Heh! I was an oddball---I actually read the entire "800 page catechism". But in our RCIA class, the catechism wasn't touched on at all, that I could tell.

"Welcome home! Brother in Christ"

Thanks. It's good to be here in the "fullness of faith" at last.

63 posted on 04/11/2006 6:39:23 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Heh! I was an oddball---I actually read the entire "800 page catechism". But in our RCIA class, the catechism wasn't touched on at all, that I could tell.

GACK!!! What the heck! I'll be praying for you and those who have to battle to get into the Church DESPITE such supposed types of formation! What a travesty...

EVERY RCIA instructor should have a plaque with the following verse on it...Study it before every class they give:

"And whosoever shall be a stumbling block to one of [these] little ones that believe in me, it would be better for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea." Mark 9:42

God bless people like you.

Brother in Christ

67 posted on 04/11/2006 7:18:43 PM PDT by jo kus (Stand fast in the liberty of Christ...Do not be entangled AGAIN with a yoke of bondage... Gal 5:1b)
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