Premise
 

The great Australian Catechist-Theologian Frank Sheed once said:

To men with their awareness of the majesty of God, the truth that Christ was God had to be broken very gradually or it would have broken them. If we read the Gospels with that in mind, we can see how marvelously Our Lord brought the Apostles to realization. His method was not to tell them, but to bring them to a point where they would tell Him. (Theology and Sanity, pg. 80)

The backdrop of Sheed's quote serves as a central premise for Knowing is Doing in assisting anyone who faithfully desires to teach the Catholic faith. Understanding the need to transmit and articulate the Catholic faith in a clear and precise manner, Knowing is Doing provides the opportunity for anyone who has ever considered embracing the role of teacher, educator, pedagogue, and catechists to engage their gifts and talents in handing on the faith with fidelity and joy.

St. John Paul II intimately tells us that the aim of catechesis is to place the person into an intimate communion with Jesus Christ. (Catechesis In Our Time, 6) This means as teachers we must be interested in Christ in order to teach about Christ. In other words, our mission if we so desire to teach is to have an intimate communion with Christ. This relationship, in turn, would serve as a central starting in our educational journey to proclaim and teach Jesus Christ.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church intimately binds the entire premise and mission of Knowing Is Doing as follows:

What moves us to believe is not the fact that revealed truths appear as true and intelligible in the light of our natural reason: we believe "because the authority of God himself who reveals them, who can neither deceive nor be deceived. So that the submission of our faith might nevertheless be in accordance with reason, God willed that external proofs of his Revelation should be joined to the internal helps of the Holy Spirit. Thus the miracles of Christ and the Saints, prophecies, the Church's growth and holiness, and her fruitfulness and stability are the most certain signs of divine Revelation, adapted to the intelligence of all; they are motives of credibility which show the assent of faith is by no means a blind impulse of the mind. (CCC 156)