“Yes Lord! We love U and we’ll feed Your lambs”

What started out as a meeting among some catechists to put together some information for parents, snowballed into a full-pledged project - complete with information booths, exhibition boards, slide shows, sale of brownies, and a spontaneous 10-member youth choir.

The Catechetical Fair, from 10 to 11 November 2007, took a detour from its original intention to provide information to parents. In the end, it achieved a lot more.

That weekend, 26 catechists came forward to journey with the children in their faith education, 16 junior catechists responded enthusiastically to plan and implement catechetical events and six facilitators helped out in administration. In taking the step forward, they all responded resoundingly to Jesus’ call to serve.

This year we are embarking on a unified approach towards catechesis for both primary and secondary levels. The unified syllabus mirrors more closely the various liturgical seasons, feast days and celebrations.

We are introducing journals to facilitate greater dialogue among children, parents and catechists. There are also plans for several catechetical projects aimed at promoting a lively community spirit among our children and youth. For instance, in addition to their respective camps, the Secondary 1 and 2 youth will get a chance to organise day camps for the primary level classes.

The Catechists’ training also takes centerstage this year. From a series of refresher talks on “Sacraments, how much do you know?” by Fr Michael Arro, to talks by trained counsellors and teachers of special-needs children, our catechists can look forward to resource and information support to help them be competent and confident faith educators.

With 900 children in our midst, we are always looking out for those who are ready to serve. You do not have to journey alone.We will walk with you. When you are ready, simply email us at hscatechism [at] gmail [dot] com. Anytime!

Amy Lim

Head, Catechetical Ministry