“Fruitful catechesis is basically a gift of the Holy Spirit’s activity calling us to ever deeper and more mature faith within the Christian community. But in God’s providential way, this gift is most commonly given through the Spirit-inspired faith, hope and love of catechists, who are responding to God’s grace in their daily lives and catechetical ministry.

Now this ministry has been described as an ordered, progressive education and formation in the faith, involving a wide variety of personnel and means, in many different situations and environments, and of differing ages and levels of human maturity. For this, the catechetical efforts must be organized, planned, supported and evaluated.

Catechesis carried out in a haphazard, uncoordinated fashion, or merely by improvisation, will never be adequate to the task. This is especially true for the Philippines today, with so many social, cultural and religious changes taking place, and the growing gap between catechetical resources and the needs of the Catholic community. (cf. Rev. NCDP 449)

A well-planned and organized ministry will then:

1. raise the quality of existing catechetical work, especially of the catechists-formation
   programs;
2. improve coordination of catechetical work with other pastoral ministries of parish and diocese;
3. establish better lines of communication and sharing of new materials, etc. within the catechetical ministry itself. (cf. Rev. NCDP 452)