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The Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgates the following: [1] [2] You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor; You shall confess your sins at least once a year; You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season
It is a more concise, dialogic and illustrated version of the Catechism. [33]: Introduction The text of the Compendium is available in fourteen languages on the Vatican website, which also gives the text of the Catechism itself in ten languages. [33] Youcat is a 2011 publication aimed at helping youth understand the Catechism.
The Episcopal Church's 1928 prayer book included a catechism with offices of instruction, based upon the catechism of the Church of England's 1662 prayer book. The Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book includes a catechism newly written for the prayer book, intended as "an outline of instruction" and "a brief summary of the Church's teaching". [59]
The Common Catechism: A Book of Christian Faith is an ecumenical Christian catechism that is the result of Catholic-Protestant dialogue and work. [1] It was first published in 1973 and is the first joint catechism published by theologians of the Catholic Church, and the Lutheran Church and the Reformed Church, among other Protestant traditions, since the Reformation: [2] [3]
[18]: 12 A common medieval vernacular book was the form of confession which allowed the layperson to remind themselves of what they might be quizzed on. [18] Jean Gerson's L'ABC des simples gens was an important catechetical work published at the advent of the printing press.
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The role of a Catholic catechist is to catechize (teach; variant spelling is catechise [1]) the faith of the Catholic Church by both word and example. The Directory for Catechesis states that faith must be "known, celebrated, lived, and turned into prayer" in a personal and total encounter of the heart, mind and senses with Christ. [2]
Joseph Ratzinger, when discussing the forthcoming Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, referred to the catechism of Saint Pius X: [4] The faith, as such, is always the same. Therefore, St. Pius X's catechism always retains its value. […] There can be persons or groups that feel more comfortable with St. Pius X's catechism.