How To Use catechumen In A Sentence
- Upon discovering that I was a catechumen, they asked me why I was converting, * so I began by saying, "A few years ago, I went looking for the Church. Archive 2008-04-01
- In some cases, the leaders themselves were catechumens, that is, people preparing for baptism.
- The person wanting to be baptised is called a catechumen and those seeking the other sacraments are called candidates for eucharist and confirmation.
- Not improbably St. Paul's injunction was so interpreted that any synaxis of the faithful where there was reading of the Scriptures terminated in a salute of this kind, and it is even possible that the appearance of the kiss in certain liturgies at the Mass of Catechumens is due to the same cause. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- And the Song of Songs puts me in mind of an embarrassing incident that occurred a few years back when I was still a catechumen. 2008 Lenten Read-a-Thon Day 16
- A catechumen of the Archdiocese of Hanoi, Bui Thanh Hieu, who writes under the pen name Nguoi Buon Gio, which means “Wind Trader” has been arrested and detained for criticising the Vietnamese government's distortion of the Pope's speech to the Vietnamese Bishops at their Ad Limina visit. Solidarity with Vietnamese blogger
- And the reality of original sin and the necessity of baptism is the very first fact catechumens need to encounter.
- In present-day usage the words chrismal and chrismatory are taken indiscriminately and almost universally to refer to the vessels that are employed to hold the oils that are solemnly consecrated by the bishop on Holy Thursday, viz., oil of catechumens, oil of the sick, and chrism. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- More than that of the unprepared participant, is not the longing of the catechumen, when baptized and fed, more fully satisfied and yet more prepared for the long journey of continuing desire that is the Christian life?
- The priest made the sign of the Cross on her forehead, saying: ‘You will now receive the sign of your new way of life as a catechumen.’