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Vision of a Well-Formed Adolescent: Young Disciples on the Way by Most Reverend Richard J Vision of a Well-Formed Adolescent: Young Disciples on the Way by Most Reverend Richard J. Malone, Th.D., S.T.L Bishop of Portland in Maine mong the most cherished blessings of my who use their spring vacation to do service work Aministry are the many graced opportunities I in Appalachia, and of the thousands from around have had to come to know and minister with teens the nation who make the trip to Washington, D.C., and young adults, and with those responsible for every January to take part in the March for Life. I their formation as disciples of Jesus Christ. As think of the kids in Portland, Maine, who descend a young priest teaching in Catholic high schools every Thursday evening into our cathedral crypt in Massachusetts and working on a Th.D. in for Theology Underground, their variation on the religious education, my choice of research topic Dead Theologians Society. They pray together, for my dissertation came easily: “The Roman and they study and discuss topics ranging from the Catholic Secondary School As Faith Community: lives and sayings of the great saints to the church’s Educational, Developmental and Theological teaching in opposition to physician-assisted Considerations”1. Adolescent catechesis has long suicide, capital punishment, and embryonic been a passion for me. It continues to be today. stem cell research. Each of you can name other When the Partnership for Adolescent Catechesis examples of strong, promising adolescent (PAC) invited me to prepare this presentation formation that builds upon components of for our symposium and gave me as a theme the comprehensive youth ministry. “vision of a well-formed adolescent,” I readily and A third reason occurred to me as I was thinking enthusiastically agreed, and for several reasons. about the teens I have known whom I would call First, I believe that the work that the National well-formed. At the risk of sounding self-satisfied Initiative on Adolescent Catechesis is engaging in or smug, looking back at my own experience is one of the most significant and potentially far as a teen, I will take the risk of saying that my reaching developments currently underway in the own formation in the faith was a good one. The field of catechetical ministry in the United States. important hermeneutical key that it was another It is a privilege to participate in it, and to be in era notwithstanding (I graduated from high school creative solidarity with all of you. in 1964), I am grateful for the ways God’s grace was at work through my family, my parish, my Second, like you, I have personally known so many friends, and my elementary and secondary school wonderful teens who have been, and are indeed experience. Thanks to the graced dynamics, the being, well formed. They love the Lord, are active sacred synergies that ran through those major in the life of their faith communities, and are formative relationships and environments, I think moving ahead on their journey of apprenticeship I was pretty well formed (if in no way perfectly!) as young Catholics. I think of a high school as a young disciple, within, of course, the context, sophomore at World Youth Day a few years ago in understandings, expectations, possibilities and Cologne, and remember how moved I was during limitations (e.g., there was not too much on a Mass with our pilgrims from Maine when this Scripture) of those days. My family was a little young woman prayed so sincerely during the domestic church, long before Vatican II introduced prayers of the faithful, “Change my heart, Lord. that ecclesiological nuance and Pope John Just change my heart.” She had heard the call to Paul II elevated it. I was marinated—not just conversion, she knew that grace came from Christ, instructed in a schooling sense (that, too)—but and she prayed to have it. marinated (translate “socialized”) in the basic I think of the teens from so many of our dioceses flavors of Catholic life from my earliest years, Source Book on Adolescent Catechesis: Volume II 55 formed gradually in the creed, code and cult, from the Christian Science Church on our street and the symbolic world of Catholic tradition. invited me in one day to see their sanctuary! Not Fr. Robert Barron, in his Beyond Beige Churches, all ingredients in the marinade were healthy ones. aptly describes this marinade in which many of us I learned that later. Formation is lifelong, thank were flavored and formed: God, and involves unlearning as well as learning. Now we call it critical reflection. Like baseball or being American, Christianity is a complex set of practices, beliefs, Domestic church, parish involvement, regular convictions and behaviors, learned through sacramental life, socialization and intentional an elaborate and lived process under the catechesis, adult models and mentors, schools tutelage of a series of masters. The way with a robust Catholic culture: All of these of Jesus is not something that comes welling elements were in place, and they had their effect. up spontaneously from the depths of one’s Most importantly, I know that God’s grace was consciousness or from one’s experiences. at work through it all. And it could work so well Rather it is placed in us through symbol, ritual, because of the rich and pervasive Catholic culture ethical behavior, saints, art, architecture, that permeated the entire experience at that time poetry, theology, etc.”2 in our history. Example: I remember when I was five or six A fourth reason, and certainly not the least, is years old the moment when my Aunt Gertrude that the church’s recent documents, Renewing the slid the corpus off of a fat crucifix in her home, Vision and the National Directory for Catechesis and showed me the tiny “sacristy” within: small (NDC) in particular, provide a compelling and candles, a bottle of holy water, little linens. So it comprehensive vision and sound principles for was that I came to know at that young age that adolescent faith formation my church has a ministry to sick and homebound set within the context of people. Later in school, a Sister of Notre Dame, lifelong catechesis and with her Baltimore Catechism in hand, would inspired by the baptismal introduce us to the sacrament that we now call catechumenate. Who could anointing of the sick: then, extreme unction (the argue, for example, with the latter term something the entire church had NDC’s insistence that a well to unlearn after Vatican II). Socialization and formed adolescent will have intentional catechesis were happening. And it a growing understanding worked. and appreciation of sacred Scripture, the church My family was deeply involved in the life of our and the sacraments, the parish. I cannot recall a single Sunday or holy day principles of Christian morality, and prayer. He when we did not go to Mass, unless someone or she will also be coming to realize and accept was down with the flu. Confession was a regular the baptismal commitment to mission, especially feature of the rhythm of family life, mom and dad evangelization; will be participating in the liturgy, leading the way by example. And I learned about developing ecumenical understanding, and generous, compassionate service to others as I learning about the important commitment to watched my parents sacrifice for me and my sister, discern Christ’s call to marriage, chaste single life, and inconvenience themselves to help others ordained ministry, consecrated life, or lay ecclesial out. I even had early ecumenical formation. My ministry. There are no surprises here. mom’s father, a lifelong Swedish Lutheran, back in the 1950s would invite the rather formal, even The leading indicator of effective formation of formidable Monsignor Degan, our pastor, to join an adolescent disciple, of course, is the quality him on the porch for conversation. Of course, that of a teen’s developing relationship with Christ bit of ecumenical witness did not stop me from and so with his church. “Catechesis aims to bring running home like a jackrabbit when a nice lady about in the believer an ever more mature faith in Jesus Christ, a deeper knowledge and love of 56 Source Book on Adolescent Catechesis: Volume II his person and message, and a firm commitment Privileged Encounters with Jesus Christ; and Life to follow him”.3 Because of this aim of catechesis, in Jesus Christ. The recommended electives also all of our efforts to form adolescents must have keep Christ as their organizational principle: Sacred an intentional evangelizing dynamic. It was Scripture; History of the Catholic Church; Living as with that objective in mind that the United a Disciple of Jesus Christ in Society; Responding States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) to the Call of Jesus Christ; and Ecumenical and Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis took Interreligious Issues. on the project of preparing our resource Doctrinal The framework is intended first to guide Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the catechetical publishers in the production of Development of Catechetical Materials for Young instructional materials for Catholic high schools, People of High School Age.” as well as for parish catechetical and youth While a curriculum framework may appear at ministry programs, and for home schooled teens. first glance to be exclusively about the content It is also intended to be a guide for diocesan of faith, the fides quae creditur, it is important catechetical leaders, teachers, and catechists who to note that the document’s introduction casts are responsible for adolescent faith formation its motivation and fundamental purpose in the in whatever setting it is offered.
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