Mystagogy: to lead through the mystries
I find it interesting that Luke’s Gospel contains not one, but two episodes in which Jesus sends out his followers on a mission. The first (Lk 9:1–6) recounts the sending out of the Twelve; and
Certainly, a person can jump right into a mystagogy group. However, starting small group work for a lot of people can be like getting into an unfamiliar pool. Approaching the pool might involve checking out
The current status of the Vatican II bishops’ concerns about evangelization and church practice is demonstrated in many sociological reports on the subject. Consider a Pew report (Religion and public life: religious composition of adults
If we were to search for the presence of God in Vatican II documents and the Catechism (CCC) we would find many references to the presence of God. For example, CCC 196: The presence of Christ is
The rule is that the divine message is always divine but the messenger is always human. With that line in mind, it can be reassuring that our mystagogy resources, that is, the message of the
In forty years of practicing psychotherapy, I said many, many times that some things are difficult because they are so complex, but others are difficult because they are so simple. The who, what, where, when,
