[Tax-chick]

We often have a mission during Lent. Last year, we had Father McBride, the popular Biblical commentator, who’s a friend of our (departing) pastor from Up North. Maybe next year we’ll get someone with a Eucharistic emphasis. (Not that Father McBride wasn’t nice.)

[SuziQ]

We were fortunate to meet Father McBride when he was working on the new Catechism. I'll never forget the first of three meetings about the Catechism that he hosted in Weston MA many years ago. The first thing he did was ask the group gathered there, about 150 people, to answer the question "Why did God make me?" Every single one of us answered in unison, what we'd learned from the Baltimore Catechism. When we'd finished reciting it, we all burst out laughing! He just smiled and made a comment something like learning by rote wasn't all bad.

It was a great series of meetings introducing us to the new Catechism, and though it's not designed to be learned from memory like the old one, which was created for kids, it's a great resource for us to learn more about the beautiful Faith handed down to us through the centuries.

My b-i-l used the new Catechism in the Confirmation preparation classes in his Parish, and gave each one of the Confirmandi a new volume when they received the Sacrament of Confirmation.