Thanks for the memories

The last issue of The Living Light arrived on my desk this week. The passing of “The Living Light” must be one of those mile markers in the growth of Catechesis. As Berard Marthaler said, the theme of this last issue “Memory, Memorization, and Remembrance” is appropriate. “A review of articles that span the past four decades—in the journal’s forty volumes, 160 issues—evoke memories of people . . .and places . . .that are inseparable from the history of catechesis and pastoral ministry in the United States in the post-Vatican II years.” We also owe a debt of gratitude to Berard Marthaler for his dedication to catechesis and pastoral ministry and his work with The Living Light. The Living Light will be missed. I wonder what the passing of The Living Light says about our profession/ministry?

Don Kurre