Hello All!

Welcome to my blog.  Allow me to spend this time in introduce myself a little bit.  My name is Mike Szczesny.  I am Catholic. I have been a catechist since 1993.  I have a lay single vocation. So my single vocation is directly tied to my catechist vocation.  I want to talk about aspects of faith, doctrine, church history, scripture, exegesis, vocations, singleness issues and other topics. In other words, sharing my faith. I will spend a lot of time going over word origins/word trivia. I will try to make this fun and interesting. Hopefully, at some times, you may come away saying, “Umm, I didn’t know that?”  So, don’t worry. This is not going to be a in-depth theological institute!

As you read my blog, I hope that you will notice that I will be asking lot of questions about this and that. If you are catechist… you ask a lot of questions. It’s what you do. (Sorry about that, Geico!) 

I can imagine what you are thinking “Why is this blogging site called ‘Resounding the Faith'”? This word comes from the Greek Katecho, which means to instruct (teach by word of mouth). So catechesis is process of instruction by word of mouth.

What then is a catechist? This is someone who teaches by questions and answers (It actually says that in World Book Dictionary!) So this is how I share my faith by asking questions, sharing my faith and insights, and perhaps leaving some “bread crumbs”, or planting some seeds of faith. Catechesis is the process of oral instruction (word of mouth) and written instruction (posts).

So, let’s get back to why I named this blogging site “Resound The Faith”. The Greek verb katecheo is made up of two parts.  Kata- means “down” and ‘”thoroughly”.  The Greek verb ekhein- means to sound or resound.  The catechist’s role is “sound down” or re-sound the faith. Hence, this is the reason for the name of my blogging site.  So, this is how I share my faith.

So, in the months ahead, I will examine and unpack these Greek words, as they relate to scripture. I will try to be that fly on the wall as I go back in history. Knowing this helps to understand the intended meaning of scripture. This study is called exegesis.