"In the creative quest to make Jesus known, we should not be afraid because he precedes us in this task. He is already in the people of today, and there he is waiting for us," the pope said.
LIFETIME CATECHESIS isn't just in word, but in work of living and exemplifying the Gospel - not an elect position institutionally claimed and owned by a priestly class.
Historically, church catechists are too much cultured in disconnection from an authentic sense of earth-belonging, of a kind of spiritual arrogance that self-presumes an elitist chosenism.
Arrogant self-election contributes to a de-facto  global culture of internecine violence. Take the religious wars in the Middle East, for example, in the "Holy" Land. Truly, land is holy everywhere - and yet, perhaps nowhere more desecrated than in the Land of Christian origins.