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- verb Present participle of
catechize .
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Examples
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It has been an amazing thing to me, occasionally to meet with men who blamed this "catechizing" for giving them a distaste to religion; every one in all our circle thinks and feels exactly the opposite.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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A few days after her arrival, a week or more, she underwent one evening a kind of catechizing from her aunt, as to her former manner of life; where she had been, and with whom, since her mother left her; what she had been doing; whether she had been to school, and how her time was spent at home,
The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852
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It is therefore the privileged place for catechizing the people of God.
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"It [the sacred liturgy] is therefore the privileged place for catechizing the people of God."
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The posters are a direct challenge to the Bishops and the laywomen who have for years rammed the Novus Ordo and its de-catechizing down the throats of humble, obedient Catholics.
You report: Promotional Posters for the Traditional Latin Mass 2009
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Is it the case that most permanent deacons only serve in that capacity on weekends, catechizing and serving at liturgy?
Archive 2008-02-17 papabear 2008
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Printers, paper-dealers, and designers were catechizing
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During this ride with the youth, whom he already regarded as his nephew, he found endless opportunities of catechizing him on all the trifles of which a perfect knowledge constituted, according to his private code, an accomplished gentleman.
The Ball at Sceaux 2007
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He was mortified, but pitched sleepless through his private catechizing, intimidated by the ancient mysteries, a thirteen-year-old would never say that, resolved to experience conversion like St. Augustine.
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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During this ride with the youth, whom he already regarded as his nephew, he found endless opportunities of catechizing him on all the trifles of which a perfect knowledge constituted, according to his private code, an accomplished gentleman.
The Ball at Sceaux 2007
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