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The beginning of faith
The eight introductory stages help learners encounter God, become familiar with the Bible, Jesus, the Church, prayer, and the sacraments.
Learning paths
Free online Catholic catechism and faith formation
Explore eight free Catholic learning paths for adults, with short lessons, quizzes, and trusted references on the Creed, sacraments, Christian life, and prayer.
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The Catechumenate and Neophyte Journey
Twenty-six stages of accompaniment, from free inquiry, the Gospel, and the foundations of faith to the Sacraments of Christian Initiation, mystagogy, and new life in the community.
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Catholic Marriage Preparation
Twenty-two stages closely following the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam's 2022 curriculum, enriched with relationship skills, safeguarding, the 2024 procedures, and a plan for accompaniment after the wedding.
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Profession of faith
The eleven stations of the Creed: Revelation, the Trinity, creation, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Church, and eternal life.
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Celebrating the Christian Mystery
Eleven liturgical stations, seven sacraments, five liturgical years, and the life of grace of the Church.
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Life in Christ
Thirteen stages of practicing liberty, virtue, the Ten Commandments, truth, justice, and solidarity in life today.
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Christian prayer
Eleven stages of learning to pray with the Bible and the Church, practicing three ways of praying, and delving into the Lord's Prayer.
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Stories of the saints
Five short, illustrated stories that introduce the saints through their choices, virtues, and one good action learners can take today.
8 lessons and assessments
The beginning of faith
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God is creator and loving.
Recognize that the world, life, and every human being are gifts given to be loved and cared for.
God speaks to humankind.
Become familiar with Revelation, Sacred Tradition, the Bible, and how to read God's Word in the Church.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Discover Jesus as the Son of God made man, our Savior and our companion.
The Holy Spirit and the Church
Understanding the Holy Spirit gives life and gathers the disciples into a community sent forth.
Learn to pray
Practice being present before God by listening, giving thanks, apologizing, praying, and entrusting yourself to Him.
Living the faith in community
Transform what you have learned into communion, service, and witness in your daily life.
The Seven Sacraments and New Life
Recognizing the sacraments as effective signs given by Christ to bestow grace and build up the Church.
Reviewing the beginnings of faith
Reinforce the key points about creation, the Word of God, Jesus, the Church, prayer, and the sacraments.
26 lessons and assessments
The Catechumenate and Neophyte Journey
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What Are You Seeking?
Begin the journey in freedom, name your honest questions, and distinguish seeking God from pressure to become Catholic.
The Heart of the Gospel: Loved and Saved
Encounter the central proclamation: God loves humanity, Christ died and rose again, and he now invites us into new life.
The Four Periods of Christian Initiation
Understand the catechumenal process, its rites of transition, and the distinction between an unbaptized catechumen and a validly baptized candidate.
God Reveals Himself and Speaks to Us
Become familiar with Revelation, Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, the Magisterium, and how to read God's Word within the faith of the Church.
One God in Three Persons
Profess the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as the one God in three distinct divine Persons.
Creation, Human Dignity, and the Wound of Sin
See the human person as the image of God, recognize the reality of sin, and receive the promise of salvation without falling into despair.
Jesus Christ: True God and True Man
Discover the identity, life, and mission of Jesus, the Word made flesh and the center of all catechesis.
The Cross, the Resurrection, and Salvation
Enter the Paschal Mystery: Christ gave himself for us, truly rose again, and opened for humanity the way to reconciliation with God.
The Holy Spirit Gathers the Church
Recognize the Holy Spirit as the giver of life and the Church as the People of God, the Body of Christ, and the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Assessment 1: The Gospel and Our Response
Check your ability to distinguish the first foundations before going more deeply into sacramental and moral life.
The Creed and the Hope of Eternal Life
Learn how the Creed summarizes salvation history, the place of Mary and the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection, and the life of the world to come.
The Liturgy and the Rhythm of the Church's Life
Understand the liturgy as the action of Christ and the Church, learn to participate on Sunday, and follow the seasons of the liturgical year.
The Three Sacraments of Christian Initiation
See the unity of Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist while distinguishing the sacramental journey of a catechumen from that of an already baptized candidate.
Baptism: Reborn in Christ
Understand the sign of water, the profession of faith, the effects of Baptism, and the responsibility to live as a member of the Church.
Confirmation: Sealed with the Holy Spirit
Recognize that Confirmation perfects baptismal grace and gives strength to remain united to Christ, bear witness, and serve.
The Eucharist and Sunday
Understand Christ's Real Presence, the Eucharistic sacrifice and banquet, and how to prepare to participate and receive Holy Communion worthily.
The Sacraments of Healing and at the Service of Communion
Become familiar with Reconciliation, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony within the whole sacramental life.
Grace, Conscience, and the Beatitudes
Discover moral life as a response to grace, learn to form your conscience, grow in virtue, and seek happiness according to the Gospel.
The Ten Commandments and the Commandment of Love
Read the Ten Commandments as a path of freedom that safeguards life, truth, justice, the body, the family, and our relationship with God.
Learning to Pray with Jesus
Build a life of prayer through the Word of God, the liturgy, silence, and the Lord's Prayer, while working through common difficulties.
Community, Mission, and the Veneration of Ancestors
Learn to live the Catholic faith within Vietnamese family and culture, distinguish worship from veneration, and take part in charity and mission.
Assessment 2: The Sacraments and the Life of Discipleship
Strengthen your ability to connect what the Church professes, celebrates, lives, and prays before the period of proximate preparation.
Purification and Enlightenment
Make proximate preparation through prayer, repentance, the Church's rites, and honest discernment instead of racing toward a deadline.
Celebrating the Sacraments of Christian Initiation
Prepare to participate in the rite with understanding, freedom, and peace by learning its principal signs and confirming practical details with the parish.
Mystagogy: Beginning a New Life
Move from what has been celebrated into a lasting life of the Eucharist, prayer, service, and learning during the first weeks and months.
Final Assessment: Ready to Continue the Journey
Assess your ability to integrate the faith and choose the next step in accompaniment; the result does not replace the parish's discernment.
22 lessons and assessments
Catholic Marriage Preparation
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Human Dignity and the Vocation to Love
Begin with the equal dignity of both persons, examine the reasons for marrying, and see marriage as a freely chosen vocation directed toward holiness.
The Value and Meaning of Love
Distinguish attraction, emotion, friendship, and self-giving love; learn how mature love is built through daily decisions and actions.
Sexuality, Chastity, and Respect
Receive sexuality as a gift concerning the whole person, and practice chastity, consent, and healthy boundaries both before and within marriage.
The Value and Meaning of Marriage
Understand marriage as the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, ordered to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of children.
Total Love and Honest Communication
Learn to give your whole self without becoming possessive, establish a rhythm of listening, express needs, and work through differences in truth.
Faithful and Exclusive Love
Discover the beauty of belonging to one another and establish boundaries that protect fidelity in daily life and digital spaces.
Free Love and Readiness for Marriage
Discern consent, the capacity to assume the obligations of marriage, and signs that call for pausing in order to prioritize truth and safety.
Love That Bears Fruit
Understand openness to life, responsible parenthood, natural family planning, infertility, and other ways in which family love can bear fruit.
Assessment 1: Freedom and Conjugal Love
Reinforce the foundations of dignity, consent, fidelity, sexuality, and openness to life before studying the sacrament and its procedures.
The Meaning of the Sacrament of Matrimony
Recognize sacramental marriage as a sign of Christ's love for the Church and a source of grace that helps the couple grow in their covenant.
How Does Canon Law Protect the Covenant?
Understand capacity, impediments, consent, and canonical form; distinguish a declaration of nullity from divorce, and avoid deciding a case for yourself.
Celebrating the Sacrament of Matrimony
Prepare the consent, Liturgy of the Word, exchange of rings, and whole celebration so that the wedding expresses faith rather than being only an event.
Marriage Procedures in Vietnam
Learn the nationwide 2024 baseline for catechesis, certificates, documents, investigation, and publication of banns, while confirming local requirements.
Conflict, Apology, and Repair
Practice stopping escalation, addressing an issue rather than attacking a person, apologizing responsibly, and seeking help when you are stuck.
Finances, Work, and Household Responsibilities
Bring money, debt, employment, migration, dependents, and care work into a shared plan that is fair and transparent.
The Family Is a School of Human Formation
Prepare to welcome and educate children through presence, good example, discipline that respects dignity, and cooperation between parents.
The Family Is a School of Faith
Build a domestic church through prayer, Sunday, the sacraments, the witness of parents, and conversations about faith suited to children.
Family, Society, and Both Extended Families
Establish filial boundaries with both sets of parents, live social responsibility, honor ancestors, and prepare for religious differences within the family.
Safety and Help in a Crisis
Recognize abuse, addiction, risk of self-harm, and situations in which safety, professional care, or separation must take priority over concealment.
The Family Lives and Proclaims the Gospel of Love
See the family as a subject of mission and prepare a rhythm of accompaniment for the early years instead of treating the wedding as the finish line.
Practice: A Shared-Life Covenant for the First Year
Bring what you have learned together into a reviewable plan for faith, communication, finances, intimacy, both families, children, and support.
Final Assessment: Entering the Covenant in Truth
Assess your ability to apply doctrine, canon law, procedures, and pastoral skills; the result is neither a certificate nor a judgment that you are ready to marry.
11 lessons and assessments
Profession of faith
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Humanity seeks, and God reveals.
Recognizing the longing for God in the human heart and His loving initiative in history.
Sacred Tradition, Scripture, and the Magisterium
Understanding how God's Word is transmitted, recorded, and interpreted within the church community.
Respond with faith and the Creed.
Discovering faith is both a personal commitment to God and a shared profession of faith for the Church.
One God in the Trinity
Learn the basic languages to profess that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are one God.
Creation, the Fall, and the Promise of Salvation
Understanding the goodness of creation, the reality of sin, and the hope that God will not abandon humanity.
The Incarnate Word and the Life of Jesus
Follow in the footsteps of Jesus from the Incarnation to his public ministry to recognize that the Kingdom of God is drawing near.
Review: From Revelation to Incarnation
Test your knowledge of Revelation, the Bible, faith, the Trinity, creation, and Jesus.
Suffering, resurrection, and ascension to heaven.
Entering into the Paschal mystery, the center of Christian faith and source of hope.
The Holy Spirit, the Church, and the Mission
Recognizing that the Holy Spirit builds up the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
Communion of Saints and Eternal Life
Complete the Creed with Mary, the grace of forgiveness, the bodily resurrection, and eternal hope.
Assessment: Profession of Faith
Summarizing the entire journey from the yearning for God to the hope of resurrection.
11 lessons and assessments
Celebrating the Christian Mystery
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Liturgy and the Paschal Mystery
Understanding the liturgy as the action of Christ and the Church, in which the work of salvation is celebrated today.
Signs, grace, and celebrations
Understanding how the sacraments use visible signs to impart grace and build up the life of the Church.
The Sacrament of Baptism
Discover the sacrament of rebirth by water and the Holy Spirit, the foundation of all Christian life.
Sacrament of Confirmation
Understanding the receiving of the seal of the Holy Spirit leads to a deeper union with Christ and a stronger witness.
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
Entering the source and summit of the Church's life: sacrifice, remembrance, presence, and the banquet of communion.
Review: The Sacraments of Initiation
Reinforcing the meaning of the liturgy, Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Learn the path of conversion, confession, penance, and receiving the healing mercy in your relationship.
Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick
Understand Christ's support for the seriously ill, the elderly, and the community that cares for them.
Holy Orders and Marriage
Let us explore the two sacraments that serve communion, each building up the People of God according to its own specific vocation.
The liturgical year, sacramentals, and burial.
Learn how time, blessings, and other celebrations help to orient our entire lives toward Christ.
Assessment: Celebrating the Christian Mystery
In summary, the seven sacraments, the liturgy, and how grace is received in life.
13 lessons and assessments
Life in Christ
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Dignity and the Beatitudes
Embracing the identity of a child of God and the path to happiness that Jesus opens up.
Freedom, responsibility, and conscience
Learn to discern your actions, train your conscience, and take responsibility for your choices.
Virtue, sin, and grace
Build good habits, recognize the destructive power of sin, and cooperate with healing grace.
First commandment: worship one God
Place God at the center through faith, hope, and love, and reject modern idols.
The name of the Lord and the day of the Lord
Honor the name of God, use responsible language, and live Sunday as a day of worship, rest, and communion.
Review: Freedom and Love for God
Strengthen the Beatitudes, conscience, virtue, grace, and the first three commandments.
Fourth Commandment: Family and Social Responsibility
Live with gratitude, respect, and responsibility within the family, while understanding the limits of all authority.
The fifth commandment: respect for life.
Protecting human dignity from the beginning to the end of nature, caring for health, and building peace.
The sixth and ninth commandments: pure love
Respect the body, emotions, and vocation to love through chastity, self-control, and safe boundaries.
The seventh and tenth commandments: justice and inner freedom.
Respect property, labor, and creative works, and learn to live generously instead of greedily.
The Eighth Commandment: Truth in Digital Life
Speak truthfully and with compassion, protect honor and privacy, and verify information before sharing it.
Common good, solidarity, and service to the poor.
Connecting personal lives with social justice, participation, and preferred choices for vulnerable people.
Review: Life in Christ
In summary, the dignity, freedom, virtue, the Ten Commandments, and the social responsibility of a disciple.
11 lessons and assessments
Christian prayer
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Prayer: Gift, Covenant, and Communion
Begin with God's initiative and learn to pray with all your heart.
Prayer in the Old Testament and Psalms
Learn from Abraham, Moses, David, the prophets, and the treasure trove of Psalms of God's people.
Jesus prayed and taught prayer.
Contemplate the prayer life of Jesus and learn attitudes of trust, perseverance, and forgiveness.
The Holy Spirit, the Church, and the Five Forms of Prayer
Let the Holy Spirit teach prayer in the Church through praise, petition, intercession, thanksgiving, and adoration.
Sources, paths, and guides for prayer.
Use the Bible, liturgy, faith, present life, and companionship to nurture your relationship with God.
Review: Learning to pray with the Church
Strengthening the foundation of the Bible, the example of Jesus, the role of the Holy Spirit, and forms of prayer.
Prayer, meditation, and contemplation.
Practice these three ways of expressing prayer, which complement each other in a unified life.
The battle of prayer and perseverance
Facing distractions, dryness, disappointment, and learning to continue praying with faith when there is no sense of support.
The Lord's Prayer: the prayer of a child
Understand why the Lord's Prayer is a summary of the Gospel and the meaning of the phrase "Our Father who art in heaven."
Seven petitions and daily prayer rhythms
Go through the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer and build a sustainable bridge of prayer.
Review: Christian Prayer
Summarizing the source, form, practice, and spirit of the life of prayer.
5 lessons and assessments
Stories of the saints
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Saint Joseph: Quiet courage
Learn from Saint Joseph how to listen to God, protect those we love, and do what is right even before we understand everything.
Saint Peter: Forgiven to lead
The story of an outspoken fisherman who failed, received forgiveness, and became a servant of the community.
Saint Paul: A life redirected
Discover how a man who once opposed Christians changed, learned again from the beginning, and dedicated his life to the Gospel.
Saint Mary Magdalene: Bearer of good news
Meet the disciple who remained faithfully near Jesus and carried the news of the Resurrection to the apostles.
Saint Andrew Dung-Lac: Courage to keep the faith
The story of a Vietnamese priest who lived simply, served his community, and remained steadfast during persecution.
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