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Book Review
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The Catechist’s Companion
Planting, Watering, Growing
Cullen Schippe
144 pages
Benziger, 1999
Retail Price: $11.94
www.benziger.glencoe.com
From the Publisher
This book is for you -- the catechist. Whether you volunteered for the
job or it came with the territory (as with parochial school teachers),
you do an awful lot of planting and watering in your life. But sometimes
your garden is in need of attention. This book is not about preparing
lessons, reading theological backgrounds, classroom discipline, audiovisual
helps, bibliographies or asking good questions. This book is about you
-- the catechist as a person.
This little volume is part workbook, part inspirational reading, part
personal inventory, and even part prayer book. It goes with you on your
catechetical journey. It can inspire you, help you get to know yourself
better, bring you back into focus, review with you catechetical spirituality,
and help you get quiet and pray.
This is your book! Enjoy it. Personalize it. Plant its words in your
heart, water them with prayer and reflection, and let God give you growth.
Book
Review
Catechists take note: whether you are a novice or master catechist,
this book will become a faithful guide throughout your catechetical
ministry.
It is perfect as a workbook for a self-guided retreat. The catechist
can learn more about herself as a person of faith and begin to develop
life-changing skills as a catechist.
The Catechist's Companion is a valuable companion in one's home or classroom.
It allows the catechist to reflect prayerfully with pointed stories,
self-directed prayer and journaling space.
Loaded with scripture, thought-provoking questions, and quotes from
major catechetical documents, this book becomes an excellent tool for
catechist formation.
While The Catechist's Companion encourages individual spiritual growth,
it challenges the catechist to go beyond his own doors and reach out
to others with works of justice; thus the notion of "planting,
watering and growing."
I encourage you to recommend this book often. Your fellow catechists
will thank you.
Margaret DeVito
Coordinator of Formation Resources
Diocese of Grand Rapids, MI
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