COME TO THE WEDDING FEAST A Guide for DREs and Catechists Dominic Ashkar Paper, $29.95 96 pages, 8½” x 11” ISBN 0-89390-400-7 View Table of Contents Quantity:

This eight-session program helps lead your catechists into becoming more spiritually effective. Using the text of the wedding at Cana story as a base, this guidebook serves as an invitation to a journey that connects your catechists with Jesus and the disciples. This program uses various people and elements from the Cana event — Mary, the servants, ceremonial jars, water, and wine — as points of reflection for the catechists on their journey. Each of the eight sections of the program is a reflection on one aspect of the story of the wedding at Cana story that can help religious educators view their task from different vantage points. Each session also includes handouts with permission to photocopy.

Review

“I am most grateful for the opportunity to have been exposed to Dominic Ashkar’s theological richness. I felt many resonances in content and process. I have been greatly enriched by Come to the Wedding Feast.”
— Fr. Louis A. Bonacci, SJ, coordinator of pastoral ministry, Xavier University, Cincinnati

About the Author

Chor Bishop Dominic F. Ashkar, Ph.D., a member of the Maronite Catholic Church, is the pastor of Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Washington, D.C. With advanced degrees in pastoral and religious studies, he is director of religious education in his diocese.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: How to Use This Guidebook

Session 1: The Catechist and Jesus
Session 2: The Catechist and Mary
Session 3: The Catechist and Miracles
Session 4: The Catechist and the Call to Faith
Session 5: The Catechist and the Ceremonial Jars
Session 6: The Catechist and the New Wine
Session 7: The Catechist and the Wedding Feast
Session 8: The Catechist and Prayer

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