Focus On Faith

For a decade, Focus on Faith has been the un­­challenged resource for those on their journey to the Catholic Church. With this revised edition, its continuing use­fulness and popu­larity are ensured.

Focus on Faith is a systematic exp­lo­r­ation of the think­ing and practice of Catholicism, primarily inten­ded for use by those parishes in which people are em­barking on the cat­ech­u­­­­menate period of the RCIA.

The contents are divided into 20 'sessions', each of which has an intro­ductory text on a theme for home reading, followed by sug­gestions for group discus­sion and exploration, and concluding with a short period of prayer.

The sessions are:

• The story
• The journey
• Conversion
• Jesus the Christ
• Jesus and us
• Scripture: The Old Testament
• Scripture: The New Testament
• The Holy Spirit and the Church
• The Church's story
• Catholic specialities
• Prayer
• Sign and sacrament
• Baptism and confirmation
• Eucharist (Mass)
• Reconciliation, and anointing of the sick
• Orders (Priesthood) and marriage
• Love, sex and the Church
• Justice and peace
• Ecumenical and inter-faith movements
• The Christian response