Office for Catechesis

[BCC] Evangelisation and Mission Workshop

This course offers catechists a deeper understanding of the Church’s vision of evangelisation and its essential place within the catechetical process. Grounded in the Directory for Catechesis, it highlights the urgency and primacy of the kerygma and equips participants with practical tools to proclaim the faith, engage culture, and share personal witness.

Topics include the evangelisation cycle, the role of accompaniment, the crafting of faith stories, and catechetical methods that foster a kerygmatic approach.

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[ECC] Human Sexuality (Sexual Ethics)

This course explores God’s plan of love and how to live it, presenting the Church’s teaching on human sexuality through the Catechism, YouCat, and Pope St John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.

Its purpose is to equip participants with the knowledge to present sexuality from a holistic and integrated human perspective.

Orientation for New Catechists

This course invites catechists to reimagine how to engage with people today by walking alongside them in their faith journey, fostering attitudes of faith, and nurturing awareness of their missionary calling.

Rooted in the Directory for Catechesis (2020), it emphasises the catechist’s personal witness as a powerful means of communicating the faith and forming believers for mission.

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Catechetical Director's Address - Fr Terence Kesavan

During the Launch of Catechetical Year, Fr Terence address the catechetical community with the main focuses for the year as well as how we can embrace the hope in our communities.

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Youth need community or they will leave the church: Fr Kesavan

By: Victoria Lim
Published On: January 22nd, 2025

“Youth want a community to belong to,” said Fr Terence Kesavan. “They need a space where they can freely share new ways of doing things in church, meet other young people, and exchange life and faith experiences.”

The Catechetical Director of the Office for Catechesis (OFC) was speaking to some 200 catechists from 32 churches at the launch of the catechetical year on Jan 4.

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Children & Youth Catechesis

What is Catechesis?

Hear our Catechetical Director, Fr Terence Kesavan describes
what is catechesis?

The name of catechesis was given to the whole of the efforts within the Church to make disciples, to help people to believe that Jesus is the Son of God… and to educate and instruct them in this life and thus build up the Body of Christ.

- Catechesi Tradendae (1979) 1