The National Catechetical

Directory of the Philippines and

the Apostolic Letter Antiquum
Ministerium in relation to
Governannce on Catechetical
ministry
 National Catechetical Directory of the
Philippines
• 1984 Maturing in the Christian Faith : The
National Catechetical Directory of the
Philippines
• 2007 Revised, The New National Catechetical
Directory of the Philippines
 The National Catechetical
• Issued by the CBCP
• Approved by the congregation of the clergy on
October 1984
• Official guidelines for the and directives for the
proper exercise, coordination and organization of
the catechetical ministry in the Philippines
• Through the joint efforts of specialist under
Episcopal Commission for Education and religious
Instruction (ECERI)(ECCE)
 3 Sections
First Section

• Chapter 1 – Describes the social, economic,

political, cultural and religious context of the
Filipino Catholics
• Chapter 2 – Analyzes the nature, goals,
sources and forms of catechesis
• Chapter 3 – Foundation of Catechesis:
Revelation and Faith
 3 Sections
Second Section
• Chapter 4 – Catholic Doctrine - Creed
• Chapter 5 – Catholic Morality, General Moral
Catechesis and Special Moral Catechesis
• Chapter 6 – Cult – Catholic Prayer and Worship
 3 Sections
3RD Section Channels and Means of the Church’s Catechesis

• Chapter 7 – Methodology in catechesis:

Pedagogy of faith for the Filipino Today
• Chapter 8 – Organizations, Personnel and
Resources of Catechesis
 Analytical Index
• Index of Biblical Quotations
• Index of Biblical References
• Comparative Table of Paragraph Numbering
 New National Catholic Directory of the
Philippines
1. PCP II January 20, 1991 – February 17, 1991
affirmed that "the most basic area of renewal
and the one that must receive first priority is
catechesis." (PCP II, 183)
2. Catechism of the Catholic Church 1993
3. Catechism For Filipino Catholics 1997
4. Message of the National Pastoral Consultation
on Church Renewal, Jan. 22-27, 2001 - CFC
 Antiquum Ministerium
1. Apostolic Letter “motu proprio,” Pope Francis
establishes the lay ministry of catechist,
intended to respond to an urgent need for the
evangelisation of the modern world May
10,2021
2. A new ministry with ancient origins
3. Transforming society through Christian values
4. Avoiding clericalization
5. Will be determined by Episcopal Conferences
 Highlights
1. Read the Signs of the Times
2. Revelation and faith
3. Updating
4. NNCDP 219-228 Norms for Presenting the
Gospel Message
Norms for Presenting the Gospel Message

• NNCDP 219. CHRISTOCENTRIC

• NNCDP 220. TRINITARIAN CHRISTO-CENTRICITY
• NNCDP 221. A MESSAGE PROCLAIMING SALVATION
• NNCDP 222. A MESSAGE OF LIBERATION
• NNCDP 223. ECCLESIAL NATURE OF THE GOSPEL
MESSAGE
• NNCDP 224. THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER OF THE
MYSTERY OF SALVATION
• NNCDP 225. INCULTURATION OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE.
Norms for Presenting the Gospel Message

• NNCDP 226. A MESSAGE MEANINGFUL FOR

THE HUMAN PERSON
• NNCDP 227. THE INTEGRITY OF THE GOSPEL
MESSAGE.
• NNCDP 228. A COMPREHENSIVE AND
HIERARCHICAL MESSAGE.
 NNCDP 219. CHRISTOCENTRIC
• 1) the task of all catechesis is to promote a personal
relationship to "the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the only Son of
the Father" who is "the heart" of the Christian faith. (CT 5)
• 2) Christ is the center of salvation history and ultimate meaning
of all human history. (Cf. GS 10)
• 3) the Gospel Message is living Word of God, not merely a
human message, and must be handed on as such in catechesis,
• 4) central to catechesis are the four Gospels, which have a
"catechetical structure of their own since they arose from the
oral tradition which passed on Christ's life, teaching and saving
actions to the first Christian communities. (CT 11)
 NNCDP 220. TRINITARIAN CHRISTO-
CENTRICITY
• 1) the internal structure of catechetical presentation must always
be through Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit. (CT 11)
• 2) catechesis instructs in the intimate life of God by following Jesus'
own pedagogy in revealing the Father as acting as Son, and the
Spirit by His salvific works. "But if I am doing it (Father's work), then
even if you refuse to believe in me, at least believe in the work I do;
then you will know for sure that the Father is in me and I am in the
Father. (Jn 10:38) This revelation of God's inner being as a
"communion of persons" indicates that we, created in God's image
and likeness, are called to "image" this communion, both in the
Church, "a people made one with the unity of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit," (LG 4) as well as civil society. (Cf. GDC 99-100)
 NNCDP 221. A MESSAGE PROCLAIMING
SALVATION
• 1) God is revealed not as a remote power without a name (Cf. EN 26)
but as a Father who is present among his creatures and whose power
is his love;
• 2) with the coming of his Kingdom, God offers the gift of integral
salvation - freedom from sin, communion with the Father, conquering
death with promise of eternal life. This salvation is eschatological -
already present in grace but fulfilled only in eternity. (Cf. EN 27)
• 3) proclaiming the justice of God, involving the call to conversion and
formation of authentic Christian conscience;
• 4) the Kingdom is inaugurated in the person of Jesus himself, with its
seed and beginning in the community of his disciples, the Church (Cf.
LG 5) in pilgrimage towards the Father's house. (Cf. GDC 102)
NNCDP 222. A MESSAGE OF LIBERATION
• 1) the specifically religious dimension of this
liberation, not reducing this liberation simply to
the temporal, material dimensions of human
well-being, while ignoring spiritual and religious
values; rather it must aim at integral human
development (Cf. EN 32; GS 37; PCP II, 241-45).
• 2) the importance of Christian social morality in
moral education, with its "preferential option for
the poor" (Cf. SRS 42; PCP II, 312; GDC 103-4).
 NNCDP 223. ECCLESIAL NATURE OF THE
GOSPEL MESSAGE
• Catechesis, originating in the Church's ministry of
the Word, "is nothing other than the process of
transmitting the Gospel, as the Christian
community has
• received it,
• understands it,
• celebrates it,
• lives it, and
• communicates it in many ways"(GDC 105).
NNCDP 224. THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER OF
THE MYSTERY OF SALVATION
• Proclaiming the faith has always an historical character for it is always within the
context of the history of salvation, and is based on the Biblical narrative of the
wonderful deeds of God (magnalia Dei). Catechesis brings out this historical
character by:
• - presenting "the deeds and words" of God throughout the great stages of
salvation history;
• - explaining the Creed and Catholic morality by the Gospel message's power to
illuminate the human life in our age, interpreting "the signs of the times" today;
• - situating the sacraments within the history of salvation by showing how the
sacraments bring the great events of salvation into the 'today' of the liturgy; and
• - uncovering the mystery of God's presence in His "deeds and words" in
Scripture, in signs of the times, and in the knowledge through signs which is
typical of faith.
NNCDP 225. INCULTURATION OF THE GOSPEL
MESSAGE.
• Christ's incarnation is the original "inculturation" and the model
of all the Church's catechesis which "is called to bring the power
of the Gospel into the very heart of culture and cultures" (CT 53;
EN 20; GDC 109-10) Inculturation of the faith cannot be reduced
to simply an external adaptation, rather signifies how the Gospel
penetrates into the depths of persons and whole peoples,
touching them deeply and "going to the very roots" of their
cultures (Cf. EN 20; RM 62; PCP II, 2, 160-162, 202-11). The work
of inculturation demands discernment concerning which cultural
riches to take up and which must be purified and transformed.
Two principles govern this discernment: compatibility with the
Gospel and communion with the universal Church (Cf. RM 54a).
 NNCDP 226. A MESSAGE MEANINGFUL FOR
THE HUMAN PERSON
• Not only is the Incarnate Word, like us in all things except sin (Cf. Heb. 4:15), but
also "He worked with human hands, He thought with a human mind, acted by
human choice, and loved with a human heart" (GS 22b). But more, it is only Christ,
the new Adam, who in revealing the mystery of the Father and of his love, fully
reveals to us who we really are and brings to light our supreme calling (Cf. GS 22;
GDC 116-17). Catechesis, then, working from this identity of human experience
between Jesus and his disciples, aims at leading Christians "to follow Christ, learn
more and more within the Church to think like him, to judge like him, to act in
conformity with his commandments, and to hope as he invites us to" (CT 20). This
means that catechesis must constantly show how:
• - doctrinal themes illumine the basic experiences and values of all human persons;
• - moral catechesis presents the authentic "good life" in promoting the Beatitudes
as permeating the Commandments,
• - liturgical catechesis refers the signs and symbols of the liturgy to the great human
experiences of birth, love, vocation, sacrifice, death.
 NNCDP 227. THE INTEGRITY OF THE GOSPEL
MESSAGE.
• A fundamental principle of catechesis is to present the Gospel message,
whole and entire, in all its rigor and vigor (cf. CT 30), avoiding any partial
or biased presentation. Integral content is achieved only through integral
presentation characterized by an organic hierarchically ordered
presentation, yet adapted to the capacity of those being catechized, in
language suitable to them, etc. (cf. CT 31). The integral presentation of
the authentic Gospel message in all its purity creates a certain tension
with the principle of inculturation which is concerned with making the
essentials of the Gospel intelligible in a definite culture. The ultimate
norm can only be the Gospel's message of integral salvation of the whole
world, uniting the acceptance of all truly human and religious values
with the missionary task of proclaiming the whole Gospel truth (cf. GDC
111-12)
 NNCDP 228. A COMPREHENSIVE AND
HIERARCHICAL MESSAGE.
• The Gospel message has a comprehensive hierarchical character. The whole
message is organized around the mystery of the Holy Trinity from a
Christocentric perspective, to which all other truths are connected in varying
degrees of closeness of closeness. But "this hierarchy does not mean that some
truths pertain to Faith itself less than others, but rather that some truths are
based on others as of a higher priority and illumined by them (GCD 43; GDC 114-
15). The hierarchical system is found in all aspects and dimensions of the
Christian message. Jesus Christ is the center of the deeds and words of God in
salvation history. The Creed synthesizes the Christian mystery in a hierarchically
ordering of Church doctrine. The Commandments to love God and neighbor (cf.
Mt. 22:40), a summary of the Ten Commandments and lived in the spirit of the
Beatitudes, provide the basis and center for the hierarchy of moral and religious
values proclaimed in the Sermon on the Mount, the Magna Carta of Christian
life. The Sacraments, springing from the Paschal Mystery, form an organic whole
with the Eucharist as their center to which each is ordered in its unique way.
•Pinagpala kayo
ng Diyos!!!