Those “such silly courses” are bringing many people soundly into or solidly back into the Church.
...a matter of opinion, surely...I use the term ‘silly’ because the organizers seemed obsessed with not bringing in anything which might ‘confuse’ the catechumenate...regardless of the fact that they were, all of them, adults fully capable of understanding and developing rational questioning without tumbling into ‘a confused apoplexy’...
...I may have given short shrift to charity with the term ‘silly’...I’ll thus change it to ‘not particularly theologically enlightening’...
As a result, I came home to the Church and all of her rich beauty
...your return is all well and good...and your joy at it is good testimony...but I too relish the Church and her beauty, only to see every week at Mass parishioners trooping in dressed in tank tops and shorts and passing by the Tabernacle with no hint of reverence...and slouching up to receive the Spotless Victim in the manner popularized by dissident 1960’s prelates (and a spectacular failure of the RCIA teachers to explain the full story behind Communion in the hand)...then what price do we assign to lost sacrality...?
Pray for your parish and get involved. You will be amazed at what God will do. It really builds one’s faith and promotes growth in holiness. ;-)