Session 3C - Spirit-led Catechesis

Niklas Carlson, Team Member (Discipleship), AEC, and member of Cor et Lumen Christi 

In Catechesi Trandendae, Pope St John Paul II called the Holy Spirit “the principle inspiring all catechetical work and all who do this work”. He called the Holy Spirit the “teacher within” and said that every catechist “must be very much aware of acting as a living, pliant instrument of the Holy Spirit” (CT 72). 

Yet the Holy Spirit is hidden; He “who unveils Christ to us will not speak on his own” (CCC 687), and for many Catholics the Holy Spirit is the least known of the Divine Persons – how can we be living and pliant instruments of someone we do not know, or do not know very well? 

Niklas will explore how we can enter into a conscious, life-giving relationship with the Holy Spirit to bear rich catechetical fruit, not least by leading those we teach to a living relationship with the Holy Spirit, “the Lord and Giver of Life” (The Nicene Creed).