Catechetics

The Church exists in order to evangelise, that is, to proclaim in words and action the Gospel, the Good News revealed to us in Jesus Christ that we are loved by God for all eternity. Everything else, for the Christian, rests on the this. If the fact of being loved by God is not experienced, known and understood and cherished by the person, then efforts to explain the teaching of Jesus, the challenge he presents us with, and the Church's ongoing endeavour to follow, as disciples, in his footsteps, towards the full realisation of God's Kingdom, will make no sense .

(Be God News-Draft National Directory for Catechesis 2007)

Catechesis prepares the Christian to live in community and to participate actively in the life and mission of the Church (General Directory for Catechesis 1997)