On September 20, we celebrate Catechetical Sunday as we kick off a new season of school, coaching, sacramental preparation, and Christian Initiation (OCIA). I am especially grateful that we have so many men and women committed to teaching and sharing the faith that it may come alive anew in our hearts and in our community. It is core to our mission here at Holy Savior, as we say, “The mission of Holy Savior Parish is to proclaim, teach and witness the Good News of salvation to all people within the Northeast and African American Community of Wichita.”

St. John Paul II teaches about catechesis, “In the first place, it is intended to stress that at the heart of catechesis we find, in essence, a Person, the Person of Jesus of Nazareth… Christo centricity in catechesis also means the intention to transmit not one's own teaching or that of some other master, but the teaching of Jesus Christ, the Truth that He communicates or, to put it more precisely, the Truth that He is. We must therefore say that in catechesis it is Christ, the Incarnate Word and Son of God, who is taught - everything else is taught with reference to Him - and it is Christ alone who teaches - anyone else teaches to the extent that he is Christ's spokesman, enabling Christ to teach with his lips. Whatever be the level of his responsibility in the Church, every catechist must constantly endeavor to transmit by his teaching and behavior the teaching and life of Jesus.”

May this always be true for each of us and for Holy Savior Parish and Academy. Please thank and pray for our catechists, academy staff, teachers, and coaches and support them in any way you can as they do the Lord’s work.

Thank you catechists and teachers!

Fr. Adam Grelinger