And yet, we need to be reminded of what we have already learned much more often than we need to be taught something entirely new. As a result of the Fall, we are forgetful, fickle, and prone to wander. For this reason (and many others), the need for evangelization, and to return to the initial proclamation of the Gospel, never really goes away.

There is a great danger, in our time more than any other in history, of catechesis being reduced to the imparting of depersonalized information. In order to guard ourselves from this as best we can, we draw great inspiration from what St. Augustine calls the Catechetical Narratio - catechesis through storytelling. If an image is worth a thousand words, then a story is worth a thousand images. Furthermore, the human mind has an infinite capacity for memory, so long as we have some framework with which to organize and recall the information. Stories and songs provide just that. Perhaps this is why the greatest teachers of all time we master storytellers: because they simultaneously provide a way of memorizing a great deal of material, while also protecting them from being reduced to bullet-points of depersonalized information.

We have the privilege of telling the greatest story of all time over and over again: that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might have eternal life.