A Study of the Parents’ Experience of the Sacramental Preparation Journey They Undertook with Their Child
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Abstract
In trying to understand the attrition of families from the parish community after children’s reception of the sacraments, this thesis asks whether the sacramental journey for children in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert is focused on preparing for the sacramental celebration and the path to discipleship or only the sacramental celebration. Two imperatives are the impetus for this study. First, the sacramental journey is to be more than the transmission of a content of knowledge directed solely towards the celebration of the sacrament; instead, it is both preparation for the sacramental celebration and entry into the fullness of the Christian life, the life of discipleship. Second, the inspiration for all catechesis is to be the catechumenal model. Sixteen parents from three parishes who undertook the sacramental journey with their children completed a questionnaire, of which seven agreed to be interviewed. Creswell’s phenomenological method was used for data analysis. Once the phenomenological piece was completed, the data was correlated with the objectives and dynamism of the catechumenal model to determine the extent to which these elements were present. The findings were shared with a focus group of the parents interviewed to validate the research results. The study discovered that the families involved in the sacramental journey incorporated the objectives and dynamism of the catechumenal model to varying degrees and prepared children for the reception of the sacraments. There was little evidence that the children had experiences of life as disciples of Jesus at the parish. Thus, better overall implementation of the catechumenal model, through a process of refounding the sacramental journey, would meet the objective of forming disciples, which would in turn draw children with their families to greater participation in the parish community.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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