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, through the grace of the Holy Spirit, that we are loved by God for all eternity. Everything else, for the Christian, rests on the this. When the fact of being loved by God is not experienced, understood and cherished by the person, efforts to explain the teaching of Jesus and the challenge he presents us with makes sense in a whole new way. The Church's ongoing endeavour to know and love Jesus, following as disciples, in his footsteps, towards the full realisation of God's Kingdom, becomes a wayof life that is fully and personally embraced.

(Share the Good News- National Directory for Catechesis in Ireland 2011)

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)