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Our household is in Catechism now and will be going next year.

We have a group of adults (reconciling or new to the faith) and young adults (8th-9thgrade) at our Church.

We are blessed to have a Jesuit very conservative Father teaching class along with another teacher who has been teaching for 24yrs.

I think just going through a year of class can give those who don't know basic things in life a education whether they choose to be confirmed in the Catholic church or not.

Personally I am learning a wealth of info that would have been tools to living growing up.

I remember a freeper who wrote that when they taught Catechism (I would have been a child going at the time) that the class just did work sheets and no real structure to teaching so he/she took it upon themselves to teachl. Then it dawned on me that is what I remember as a kid. Chaos and work sheets or coloring. Babysitting with no structure.

What we are doing now is real study, theology, teachings of the Church, the diff. between other Religions and what the Roman Catholic Church, discussion and we are at all different levels. Even as we break for summer we will have assignments do upon our return in the fall.
On top of Confirmation class I am having to go back and learn the very basics 45yrs later.

That was me teaching CCD to sixth graders. It was just coloring worksheets. I taught the OT and the prayers instead. One thing we did which I felt combined the OT burnt offerings and the teaching of prayers was as soon as each student had carefully written his/her (there were 9 boys and one girl) the Our Father with no help from anyone or anything, we took the ten papers and out in the parking lot, we fired up a little portable grill. The idea was that each student put his/her written prayer into the fire and say the Our Father. What happened next still gives me chills to think about. As each student began, the others joined in and by the time we got to the last one, they were chanting it at the top of their lungs, all together. Now that was the Spirit moving them. Wow.

The part I like best of the Easter Vigil is the blessing of the water and the fire. One year, my sons were serving Mass and my husband and I were singing in the choir and had a great view and father caught himself on fire. He calmly reached into the Holy Water and splashing it on himself, put out the fire.