A certain author, in a catalogue of this class of literature, enumerates fifteen hundred and ninety catechetical sermons for the young that were directed solely against the Calvinists!
His labors proved a great success; and his reform in catechetical instruction, not only in Frankfort, but thence into many parts of Germany, eventuated in one of the chief triumphs of his life.
The Catechetical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem (348) are also of value in this connexion.
He preached every year a course ofcatechetical sermons for the instruction of the catechumens, to prepare them for baptism and the holy communion.
He preached every day this Lent; but only these twenty-one have reached us: and only two catechetical discourses, out of many others which he made about Easter that year to the catechumens.
With the rise of theological controversy and the growth of heresy catechetical instruction became of vital importance to the Church, and much greater importance was attached to it.
In the main they are expositions of the Creed, the Lord's Prayer and the Decalogue, and thus follow a tradition that has come down from the days when Cyril of Jerusalem delivered his catechetical Lectures.
We have no reason to suppose that the instruction given in the famous catechetical schools of Alexandria and Carthage was restricted to candidates for baptism.
The acquisition of this arcanum was regarded as the most essential element in the catechetical discipline, and marked off its possessors from the rest of the world.
Catechetical instruction was designed as a preliminary to baptism.
It may be noted that Sir Oliver Lodge has adopted the catechetical form in his book, The Substance of Faith Allied with Science (1907), which is described as "a catechism for parents and teachers.
We followed up through the lessons and influences of the Church's nursery, the Sunday-school, and from thence into the pastor's catechetical class.
If this good old-fashioned custom were kept up in all our households and schools, then would the pastor's catecheticalclass be more of a pleasure and a profit to himself and his catechumens.
This same sad mistake is also made by many pastors in the catechetical class.
And thus, home and school together, working in harmony for the same end, would prepare the children for the pastor's catechetical class.
Most parents indeed are glad to shirk this duty, and flatter themselves that if they send their children to catechetical class, when they grow old enough, they have performed their whole duty.
Yielding to this popular sentiment, many churches, that once adhered strictly and firmly to the catechetical method, having either dropped it entirely or are gradually giving it up.
He was the head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria in A.
At last, however, I was forced to bite or cut the coloquinta-apple, and give her the half of it; I mean the news of my rejected petition for the Catechetical Professorship.
Does not the patrimony of my good wife endow me better than ten Catechetical Professorships?
And yet, for this kind soul, looking into life with such love and hope, I must in a little while overcloud the merited Heaven of today, with tidings of my failure in the Catechetical Professorship!
He was now teacher of the catechetical school of Alexandria--an office in which he had succeeded Clement--and his ordination by the foreign pastors gave great offence to Demetrius, his own bishop.
His ordination was pronounced invalid; he was deprived of his appointment as president of thecatechetical school; and he was excommunicated as a heretic.
It was doubtless quite in place in the Catechetical School and among scholars in the great centers of ancient learning but outside those limits its influence--at least directly--must have been very small.
None of the many influential occupants of the see of Alexandria and of the many distinguished heads of the Catechetical School in that city seem to have been held in higher respect by the ancients than Dionysius.
Theophilus again, to whom the Acts were addressed by St. Luke, is reminded, in the preface of the Gospel, of the catechetical instruction in Christian truth which he had received.
St. Paul recognised the vast importance of such diligent pastoral work andcatechetical training after baptism when writing his pastoral Epistles, because bitter experience had taught him their value.
It was evidently, as known by them, a manual used in the catechetical instruction of the young.
And yet, for this kind soul, looking into life with such love and hope, I must in a little while overcloud the merited Heaven of to-day, with tidings of my failure in the Catechetical Professorship!
It would be very far from the truth, however, to suppose that the teachings of the Catechetical school had not been able to form martyrs.
In the same year, Pantaenus became the head of the catecheticalschool of the patriarchal Church of Alexandria.
The Christian catechetical school of Alexandria is said to have been founded by St. Mark himself.
From the heads of the Catecheticalschool down to the humblest little child that was marked out by baptism in the great city of sin, there was a great work going on.
The grounds of questions and the forms of thought have shifted since the days of the catechetical school.
The Catechetical school was closed; masters and scholars were scattered in flight or in concealment.
The catechetical school was, and appeared to them, as truly a philosophical lecture-room as the halls of the Museum.
But the catechetical school of Alexandria soon assumed an importance that no other school of those times ever attained.
Pantaenus in the catechetical school of that place.
Incidentally, too, its successive forms illustrate many matters of belief and usage among Syrian Christians generally in the 3rd and 4th centuries, notably their apologetic and catechetical needs and methods.
He founded institutions for rescuing fallen women, started orphanages and organized catechetical instructions.
By the phrase "in order" he may himself have intended chiefly to contrast the orderliness and consecutiveness of his account with the necessarily fragmentary character of the catechetical instruction which Theophilus had received.
But the Peripatetic philosophy was no longer attractive to the pagans, though after the fall of the catecheticalschool it had a strong following of Christian disciples.
In the catechetical school, Pierius, whom we have before spoken of as a man of learning, was succeeded by Theognostus and then by Serapion, whose name reminds us that the Egyptian party was gaining weight in the Alexandrian church.
Of course, at this time of trouble the catechetical school was broken up and scattered, so that there was no public teaching of Christianity in Alexandria.
Dionysius had succeeded Heraclas in the bishopric, having before succeeded him as head of the catechetical school.
It can hardly have been for his superior learning, it may have been because his opinions were becoming more popular than those of the Greeks, that a professor with an Egyptian name was placed at the head of the catechetical school.
Under Didymus, who was then the head of the catechetical school, Jerome pursued his studies, having the same religious opinions with the Egyptian, and the same dislike to Arianism.
In Jerusalem, Cyril the Bishop, teaches the people in his catechetical lectures this faith of the Church with a ring of gladness and triumph.
St. Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, in his Catechetical lectures, and St. Chrysostom in several of his homilies speak of the help we get through the prayers of departed holy men.
And with regard at least to all gentile converts this precise and definite catechetical instruction was reinforced by the new sense which at their conversion was impressed on them of the heathenism out of which they were then taken.
And Didymus, head of the Catechetical School at Alexandria, and instructor of Jerome and Rufinus, condemns the opposition which some offered to the Epistle on account of the statement respecting the body of Moses (ver.
Cyril of Jerusalem, in hisCatechetical Lectures, written before his episcopate, c.
Cyril of Jerusalem in his catechetical discourses addressed to the newly baptised inculcates in the strongest terms the doctrine of the real presence, but charges them most strictly not to communicate to the catechumens his instructions.
The first of the teachers of the catechetical school at Alexandria known by name was =Pantænus=, who had formerly been a Stoic philosopher.
Demetrius to be teacher of the catechetical school.
The nursery of this theological tendency was especially this Catechetical School of Alexandria which from an institution for the training of educated Catechumens had grown up into a theological seminary.
Titus Flavius Clemens [Clement]= was the pupil of Pantænus and his successor at the catechetical school in Alexandria.
We still have his 23 Catechetical Lectures delivered in A.
After this danger had been long overcome, the desire was expressed in the 9th century for a shorter creed that might serve as a baptismal formula and as the basis of catechetical teaching.
He was for fifty years Catechist in Alexandria, and as such the last brilliant star in the catechetical school.
This work discusses the most interesting questions connected with the Catechetical System--the Teacher’s Qualifications, Difficulties, and Encouragements.
Bishop-elect of Ogdensburg: "Your book will furnish solid material to priests who wish to preach at low Masses the catechetical instructions prescribed by the council of Baltimore.
Bishop of Cheyenne: "Your Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism is excellent, and it supplies a much needed means of useful and necessary catechetical instruction for our Sunday schools.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catechetical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
