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during
Correlation to the
Catechism of
the Catholic
Church
Correlation to the
Catholic
Catechism
for Adults
Correlation to
Growing Faith
booklets
MBFLC600        
Anointing of the
Sick and Dying -
and the use of
Viaticum        
  • Overview of the Pastoral Care
    of the Sick
  • Rite of Anointing
  • Rites for the Dying
  • Viaticum        
Ordinary Time
Articles #1499-1532
Part 2, chapter 19
Booklet #27:
How does God Heal Us? Anointing of the
Sick
MBFLC602        
Baptism        
  • Roots of Baptism in Scripture
  • Theology of Baptism
  • Baptism from a liturgical
    perspective
  • Implications of Baptism for
    discipleship        
Triduum &
Easter
Easter Season
Lent
Christmas
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1212-1284
Part2, chapter 15
Booklet #23:
How Do We Begin Life in the Church?
Baptism
MBFLC604        
Catholic Social
Teaching
  • Unpacking the principles
    inherent in Sharing Catholic
    Social Teaching: Challenges &
    Directions
  • Connecting the principles of
    this document to life        
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1877-1948
Part 3, chapters
23-24
Booklet #34:
How Should We Live as a Community?
Society and Human Dignity
MBFLC606        
The Church &
Ecclesiology        
  • Theology of Church
  • Scriptural origins of our beliefs
    about Church
  • Understanding the Church
    from our Tradition
  • Metaphors for Church        
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
Article #s 748-870
Part 1, chapters 10-11
       
Booklet #17 and Booklet #18:
With Whom do you Gather? The Mystery of
the Church

How Do You Recognize the Church?
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic
MBFLC608        
Church
Structures        
  • Biblical roots of the Church as
    the People of God
  • Doctrine of Church expressed
    in Liturgy
  • Metaphors for Church
  • Church structures        
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
Article #s 871-945
Part 1, chapter 11      
  
Booklet #19:
Who is the Church? Christ's Faithful: the
People of the Church
MBFLC610        
Confirmation     
   
  • Theology of Confirmation
  • Confirmation as conferral of
    the Holy Spirit
  • Confirmation as a sacrament of
    initiation
  • Exploring the elements of the
    Rite
  • The Rite of Confirmation        
Triduum &
Easter
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1285-1321
Part 2, chapter 16     
   
Booklet #24:
How Does the Holy Spirit Strengthen Us?
Confirmation
MBFLC612        
The Cross and
the Paschal
Mystery        
  • The Cross as liturgical symbol
  • Biblical roots of the theology
    of the Cross
  • Church doctrine on the Cross
  • Discipleship and the Cross:
    Participation in the Paschal
    Mystery
Triduum &
Easter
Easter Season
Christmas
Ordinary Time
Article #s 557-623
Part 1, chapter 8       
 
Booklet #14:
Why Did Jesus Suffer? The Passion of Christ
MBFLC614        
Ecumenism        
  • Unpacking the Decree on
    Ecumenism from Vatican II
  • Catholic principles regarding
    Ecumenism
  • Practicing Ecumenism: What
    does that mean?
  • The Church and other ecclesial
    communions
  • Implications of Ecumenism on
    our faith        
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
Not a direct
correlation:
Article #s  820-822
Not a direct
correlation:
Part 1 chapter 11       
 
Not a direct correlation:
Booklet #18:
How Do you Recognize the Church? One,
Holy, Catholic and Apostolic
MBFLC616        
Eschatology or
the End Times     
   
  • Overview of eschatology
  • The theology of Heaven, Hell
    and Purgatory        
Advent
Ordinary Time
Article #s 946-962
Part 1, chapter 13     
   
Booklet #20:
What Happens at the End of Life? Heaven,
Hell, and Purgatory
MBFLC618        
Incarnation        
  • Creedal statement of faith in
    the Incarnation
  • Drawing from the principle Lex
    Orandi, Lex Credenci – rule of
    prayer constitutes rules of belief
  • Unpacking the theology of
    Incarnation in the Prefaces for
    Christmas and Epiphany        
Christmas
Advent
Article #s 422-483
Part 1, chapter 7       
 
Booklet #11:
Who Do People Say That I Am? You Are
the Messiah!
MBFLC620        
Eucharist (part
one): the
Introductory
Rites
  • Elements of worship: ritual,
    ritual language, symbols, ritual
    prayers, space, music
  • Exploring elements of the
    Introductory Rite: opening
    song, Rite of Sprinkling, Act of
    Penitence, Gloria, Opening
    Prayer        
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1066-1134
Part 2, chapter 14     
   
Booklet #21:
What is the Liturgy? The Liturgy is the
Work of the Trinity
MBFLC622        
Eucharist (part
two): the
Liturgy of the
Word        
  • Exploring the elements of the
    Liturgy of the Word
  • Old Testament reading,
    Responsorial Psalm, New
    Testament reading, Gospel
    Acclamation, the Gospel
    reading, homily, Creed, Prayers
    of the Faithful
Easter Season
Ordinary Time















Article #s 1322-1419















Part 2, chapter 17     
   














Booklet #25:
How is Our Christian Initiation Completed?
Eucharist
MBFLC624        
Eucharist (part
three): the
Eucharistic
Prayers        
  • Exploring the elements of the
    Eucharistic Prayer
  • Preface, Dialogue, Epiclesis,
    Words of Institution or
    Consecration, anamnesis,
    offering, Intercessions,
    Doxology                
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
MBFLC626        
Eucharist (part
four):
Communion Rite
       
  • Theology of the Communion
    Rite
  • Elements of the Communion
    Rite: Lord’s Prayer, Sign of
    Peace, Breaking of the Bread,
    Communion                
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
MBFLC628        
Eucharist:
Symbols of
Bread and Wine  
 
   
  • Signs of bread and wine – and
    everyday life
  • Signs of bread and wine – and
    Sacred Scripture
  • Signs of bread and wine – and
    the Liturgy        
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
MBFLC630        
Evangelization    
    
  • Unpacking the true meaning of
    evangelization
  • Unpacking the papal
    document: Evangelization in
    the Modern World
  • Implications for today’s
    world        
Easter Season
Ordinary Time
Not a direct
correlation:
Article #s 142-184
Not a direct
correlation:
Part 1, chapter 4       
 
Not a direct correlation:
Booklet #5:
Do You Believe? The Response to
Revelation is Faith
MBFLC632        
Faith        
  • What is faith?
  • Faith in God = Faith in Christ
  • Faith and Works        
Ordinary Time
Article #s 142-184
Part 1, chapter 4       
 
Booklet #5:
Do You Believe? The Response to
Revelation is Faith
MBFLC636        
Kingdom of God
       
  • Principle statement; Kingdom is
    now and not yet
  • Theology of the Kingdom of
    God
  • Kingdom of God and
    discipleship
  • Kingdom of God and parables
    and miracles        
Advent
Ordinary Time
Article #s 512-570
Part 1, chapter 7       
 
Booklet #13:
What Did Christ Teach? The Reign of God
MBFLC638        
Life Issues        
  • The meaning of life
  • The right to a full and
    abundant life
  • Life issues: abortion, death
    penalty, end of life decisions,
    murder, stem cell research,
    war        
Ordinary Time
Article #s 2258-2330
Part 3, chapter 29    
    
Booklet #40:
How Do We Protect the Living? On the
Taking of Life - the 5th Commandment
MBFLC640        
The Liturgical
Year        
  • The origins of Sunday
  • The Liturgical Year and the
    Lectionary
  • The Liturgical Year and the
    annual cycles and seasons        
Advent
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1135-1209
Part 2, chapter 14     
   
Booklet #22:
How Does the Church Pray? The People,
Places and Rites of the Liturgy
MBFLC642        
Marriage        
  • Marriage as a covenant
  • The Biblical foundations of
    marriage – Old and New
    Testament
  • Historical foundations
  • Liturgical Rite of Marriage        
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1601-1666
Part 2, chapter 21     
   
Booklet #29:
How is Love Blessed and Celebrated?
Matrimony
MBFLC644       
Mary, Model for
the Church        
  • Catholic teaching regarding
    Mary
  • Mary as the model disciple
  • Feasts of Mary        
Advent
Ordinary Time
Article #s 484-511 &
963-975
Part 1, chapters 7 &
12        
Booklet #12:
Why Do We Honor Mary? Mary: Mother of
God and Mother of the Church
MBFLC646        
Miracles   
  • Explanation of miracles
  • Scriptural context for
    understanding miracles
  • Church teaching regarding
    miracles
  • Different types of miracles        
Ordinary Time
Not a direct
correlation:
Article #s 422-483
Not a direct
correlation:
Part 1, chapter 7       
 
Not a direct correlation:
Booklet #11:
Who Do People Say That I Am? You Are
the Messiah!
MBFLC648        
Christian
Morality        
  • Biblical roots of morality
  • The Catholic approach to
    morality compared to other
    approaches
  • The communal nature of
    morality
  • What constitutes a moral
    action?        
Lent
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1691-1748
Part 2, chapter 21     
   
Booklet #30:
What Makes Us Free? We Are Destined for
God
MBFLC650        
Moral Decision
Making   
  • Models of morality
  • How to form a good
    conscience: Scripture, authority
    of the church, counsel of
    others, gifts of the Holy Spirit
  • What constitutes a moral
    decision?        
Lent
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1749-1802
Part 2, chapter
23-24        
Booklet #31:
What is Right and Wrong, and How We Do
Know? Morality and Conscience
MBFLC652       
Holy Orders
  • Sacramental priesthood
  • Explanation of in persona
    Christi
  • The meaning of the word
    “orders”
  • Various degrees of priesthood:
    bishop, priest, deacon        
Ordinary Time
Article #s 1533-1600
Part 2, chapter 20    
    
Booklet #28:
How Does God Consecrate for the Service
of the Church? Holy Orders
Catholic Faith, Life & Creed
Doctrinal Catechesis Sessions for adults based on the Church Year, the Sunday Readings, and the
Liturgy
Scope and Sequence
The forty Doctrinal Catechesis Sessions are listed below.
In each one...
  • Connections are made with the Sunday liturgy.
  • The doctrine of church that was embodied in the liturgy is explored.
  • The Catechism of Catholic Church connections are clearly made and
    citations for each are provided.
  • Stories and connections are made with everyday life.
  • Conversion-centered reflection questions are provided. Powerful.
Author
Mary
Birmingham
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