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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]
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 Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, §. 432, enumerates the same five: [3] to attend Mass on Sundays and other holy days of obligation and to refrain from work and activities which could impede the sanctification of those days; to confess one's sins, receiving the sacrament of Reconciliation at least once each year;
As a catechist in Köthen he felt the lack of a good catechism, and was encouraged by his superior, Johann Baptist Devis, to compose one. As a model he took the Mainz catechism of 1842 and made use also of other textbooks, notably of Bossuet's catechism. He completed his first catechism, called Katholischer Katechismus oder Lehrbegriff, in 1847.
Catechesis (/ ˌ k æ t ə ˈ k iː s ɪ s /; from Greek: κατήχησις, "instruction by word of mouth", generally "instruction") [1] [2] is basic Christian religious education of children and adults, often from a catechism book.
A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore, or simply the Baltimore Catechism, [1] was the national Catholic catechism for children in the United States, based on Robert Bellarmine's 1614 Small Catechism. The first such catechism written for Catholics in North America, it was the standard ...
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