1. How does this catechism seem to be different from other catechisms you've seen?  Does it seem to be radical? 
2. What does it mean to say that religious action precedes rather than follows reflection?  Can you think of other aspects of your life where the same thing is true? 
3. What does "mystery" mean in this book?  How does this  meaning differ from other meanings of mystery you have  heard? 
4. Why is it important that  religion be grounded in experience? 
5. What have your experiences been of "something else" going on in the universe?  When did they occur?  How did they affect you? 

1. What were some of the wonder experiences in your life?  When did they happen?  What impact did they have on you?  Why do you think you don't have more of them? 
2. What is your "daily" picture of God, your "working image" of him?  What kind of a world does a God like that reveal to you? 
3. Why are we afraid to admit that God might be passionately in love with us? 
4. Does the interpretation of the story of the "crazy farmer" shock you?  Do you think God could really be like the crazy farmer?  Or the permissive father who spoiled the prodigal son? 
5. Why do so many people seem to prefer a God of justice to a God of love? 

1. What were the times in life when you have experienced the strongest hope?  What was it like?  How did it start?  How do you feel now about such experiences? 
2. Why does our hopefulness diminish so quickly?  Why do so many people refuse to believe the "hint of an explanation" that hope gives them? 
3. What does it mean to live in the time between the "already" and the "not yet"? 
4. What does it mean to say: "If Jesus were certain, he would not be one of us."? 
5. What is the Jerusalem to which you must go up?  How will you go? 

1. What were your greatest moments of trust and openness?  When did they happen?  How did you react?  How long did they last?  What happened afterwards? 
2. Why do we so fearfully pull back from trust? 
3. Why is marriage the intimate relationship par excellence?  Why is there so much fear and distrust in marriage? 
4. Why is the Holy Spirit called a dancing God?  What is special in you that the Holy Spirit tries to call forth when he gives you the invitation to the dance? 
5. What are the risks in deceiving ourselves about the Holy Spirit?  How can we tell that we are not being deceived? 

1. What are the worst personal experiences of evil you have  ever had?  And the best experiences of good?  Which seem  to you now to have been stronger? 
2. How have you experienced death and resurrection? Deep  down inside, which seemed stronger? 
3. How does the "Christ event" illumine the mystery of good and evil for you? 
4. What does it mean to say that the resurrection is a sacrament?  Why is the ultimate question not whether Christ rose but whether we will all rise?. 
5. What are the consequences in your own life of the mystery of the resurrection?  How do you feel about these consequences? 

1. What are the worst things you do?  And the best?  Which is stronger in you–good or evil?  Are you more good than bad or more bad than good?  Under what circumstances does the evil in you seem strongest? 
2. What are the traps in which you feel caught?  What is the worst isolation you experience? 
3. Are liberation and reconciliation really possible in your life?  How can you escape the traps, break down the barriers? 
4. How does Jesus enable us to find freedom and community? 
5. What is the Catholic Christian view of the nature of human nature?  How does it differ from other views? 

1. What are your worst feelings of guilt?  Do you kid yourself about guilt, sliding over the real responsibilities and assuming phony responsibilities?, 
2. What are your feelings of forgiveness? 
3. How strong is your feeling of self-hatred and selfrejection?  Do you punish yourself even after others (God included) have forgiven you? 
4. What does it mean to say that God is gracious?  How have  you experienced this grace? 
5. What kind of graciousness must we show to others? What does it mean that loving forgiveness is contagious? 

1. What were your closest friendships?  What went wrong with these relationships?  What went right?  How did the friendships affect you?  How would you do it over? 
2. Why are our interludes of loving friendship usually so brief? 
3. Why is eating together a sign of friendship? 
4. When are our common meals the best?  Why do such meals sometimes go wrong?  How necessary is it to be considerate of others in order to make the common meals happy? 
5. What does the Eucharist tell us about the possibility of friendship?  Why is this meaning often not obvious in our Sunday worship? 

1. Why are we afraid of those who are different from us?  Why is there so much hatred for other groups? 
2. Have you had any experiences in which you have discovered that the "stranger" is in fact a "brother"? 
3. What was the program of  Jesus for uniting humanity? 
4. Why is there a Church at all?  Who is the Church?  Why  has the Church made so many mistakes? 
5. How does the Church point toward a vision of a reconstituted humanity?  What does it mean to say that the Church is made up of servants?  To what extent has the Church failed?  Why? 
6. Is there a Catholic answer to social problems? 

1. How does the use and abuse of the environment relate to baptism? 
2. Have you had any experiences of the power and the healing effects of water? 
3. How is baptism a reenactment of the Christ event? 
4. Why is the baptismal water blessed and the baptismal vows renewed on Easter? 
5. What does it mean to say that some signs are sacraments–precisely because all material elements are gracious? 

1. What experiences have you had of the fear of your sexuality?  In what experiences has it been a revelation of grace? 
2. Why did the Church go down the wrong track for so long on sex? 
3. How did devotion to Mary develop in the Church? 
4. What implications for human sexuality in the modern world does devotion to Mary really have? 
5. What does it mean to say that God is both our powerful fattier and our loving mother?  How is the sexual union a sacrament of the Christ event? 
6. What does Mary's role of reflecting the femininity of God tell us about the equality of men and women? 

1. Why is envy such a powerful human emotion?  Why do the evil prosper?  Why do you have to die?  What is the answer of God to Job? 
2. What experiences have you had of the hunger for fairness? 
3. How is Jesus a response to the search for fairness?  How does the Christ event reveal God's fairness? 
4. What do you think heaven will be like? 
5. What does it mean to say that Christians prepare for death by developing a capacity for surprise? 

1. What was your strongest experience of peace? 
2. Why is peace so hard to find? 
3. How do Christians respond to the problem of injustice and misery in the world?  What is the correct answer to the charge that Christian belief in the afterlife lowers concern about righting the wrongs in this life? 
4. What is God's game plan for the New Creation? 
5. What does a Christian's experience of the peace of Christ have to contribute to the struggle for justice and peace among humans?  What does it mean to say that Christianity does not mean doing special things but rather doing everything in a special way? 

1. How does religion stand between ethics and philosophy? 
2. Summarize the Christian answer to the twelve questions that are asked in this book. Is this answer encouraging? 
3. How do you achieve practical certainty about the Christian faith? 
4. How must you live if you believe the answer you have summarized in question 2? Is this life easy?  How perfect do you have to be at it? 
5. What does it mean to say that Christianity begins in wonder and ends with a capacity for surprise?

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