Lots of introductory stuff from Monday. Of course, any CMD project comes with a gold-mine of a binder.

… The GDC states that the aim of catechetical activity consists in precisely this: to encourage a living explicit, and fruitful confession of faith  (66) and that The definitive aim of catechesis is to put people not only in touch, but also communion and intimacy, with Jesus Christ (80).  I have often stated both these lines but not so much with the emphasis.  That’s about to change…   No matter how much we want to complain about fallen-away Catholic skewing the statistics of the NSYR, “they claim you, do you not claim them?”  … If Jesus had proclaimed the “whateverism” creed of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, he would have never been crucified …  The sacred duty and joy of each succeeding generation of Christian believers has been to hand on the deposit of faith that was first entrusted to the apostles by Christ himself.  We have received the gift, the deposit of faith – we have not conceived it. It is the heritage of the whole church.  It is our privilege and responsibility to preserve the memory of Christ’s words and the words themselves and to teach future generations of believers to carry out all that Christ commanded his apostles (NDC 26)

OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS
This piece is outside the conference center where we meet.  It is described as a modern day Madonna and Child.