Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a Montessori method for Christian education in the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. [1] The method is offered in churches and schools across 37 countries.
The Good Shepherd, c. 300–350, at the Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome. The Good Shepherd (Greek: ποιμὴν ὁ καλός, poimḗn ho kalós) is an image used in the pericope of John 10:1–21, in which Jesus Christ is depicted as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep. Similar imagery is used in Psalm 23 and Ezekiel 34:11–16.
The parish was organized under the name of the Church of the Good Shepherd [3] and, at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts in 1876, it was voted to accept the Church into union with the convention. [6] William Franklin Cheney was also elected to take charge of the congregation in August 1876. [3] [7] [b]
It was promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 as a reference for the development of local catechisms, directed primarily to those (in the church) responsible for catechesis and offered as "useful reading for all other Christian faithful". [2] It has been translated into and published in more than twenty languages worldwide.
OGS symbol. The Oratory of the Good Shepherd (OGS) is a dispersed international religious community, within the Anglican Communion.Members of the oratory are bound together by a common rule and discipline, which requires consecrated celibacy, and are strengthened by prayer and fellowship; they do not normally live together in community but meet regularly in chapter and retreat and report to ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
While superior at Tours, Mary Euphrasia formed a contemplative nuns group, named the Magdalen Sisters (based in a devotion to Mary Magdalene's conversion), now known as the Contemplative Communities of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, for penitent women who wished to live a cloistered life, but were ineligible to become Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. [7]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate