catechistic

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Lectors read from scripture, acolytes serve at Mass, and catechists teach the faith to children and adult converts.

From Reuters • Jan. 23, 2022

Now young people “are getting a better version of the faith from our catechists and the teachers,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2016

“If this lay leadership and these catechists are supposed to leave a mark on the circuses at large, God will provide.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2015

By the end of his tenure, there were more than 20,000 Indian catechists in Chiapas, said Pablo Romo, a former Dominican priest who worked with the bishop.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2011

Philip the deacon, Thomas Whipple, and Alexander Umbeclear, Indian catechists, and two Yankton head soldiers, who volunteered, are on their mission to the wild Sioux.

From Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 by Tuttle, Edmund B.