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Faith formation - growing in our friendship with God - is the task of a lifetime. From infancy to old age, we are constantly learning what it means to be a Christian. Indeed, we are constantly learning what it means to be a good and decent human being.
St. Paul Chapel strives towards a "cradle to grave" model of faith formation. Since the days of the Apostles, the classic model of teaching the faith has been a three-fold structure of:
PROCLAMATION - TEACHING - DEEPENING
Because we are an ancient Church, we often use the Greek and Latin terms for these stages:
PARAENESIS (EVANGELIZATION)
CATECHESIS (INITIATION)
MYSTAGOGIA (GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT)
St. Paul Chapel strives towards a "cradle to grave" model of faith formation. Since the days of the Apostles, the classic model of teaching the faith has been a three-fold structure of:
PROCLAMATION - TEACHING - DEEPENING
Because we are an ancient Church, we often use the Greek and Latin terms for these stages:
PARAENESIS (EVANGELIZATION)
CATECHESIS (INITIATION)
MYSTAGOGIA (GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT)
