Jesus Christ is the living and perfect relationship of God with man and of man with God. From him the pedagogy of the faith receives "a law which is fundamental for the whole of the Church's life", and therefore for catechesis: "the law of fidelity to God and of fidelity to man in a single, loving attitude". 504CT 55. Genuine catechesis therefore is that catechesis which helps to perceive the action of God throughout the formative journey. It encourages a climate of listening, of thanksgiving and of prayer. 505Cf. DCG (1971) 10 and 22. It looks to the free response of persons and it promotes active participation among those to be catechized. The "condescension" of God, 506DV 13; CCC 684. a school for the person
God, wishing to speak to men as friends, 507Cf. DV 2. manifests in a special way his pedagogy by adapting what he has to say by solicitous providence for our earthly condition. 508Cf. DV 13. This implies for catechesis the never-ending task of finding a language capable of communicating the word of God and the creed of the Church, which is its development, in the various circumstances of those who hear it. 509Cf. EN 63; CT 59. At the same time, it maintains the certainty that, by the grace of God, this can be done and that the Holy Spirit will give us the joy of doing it. Therefore pedagogical instructions adequate for catechesis are those which permit the communication of the whole word of God in the concrete existence of people. 510Cf. CT 31. Evangelize by educating and educate by evangelizing 511Cf. GE 1-4; CT 58.
Being inspired by the pedagogy of faith, catechesis presents its service as a designated educative journey in that, on the one hand it assists the person to open himself to the religious dimension of life, while on the other, it proposes the Gospel to him. It does so in such a manner as to penetrate and transform the processes of intelligence, conscience, liberty and action making of existence a gift after the example of Jesus Christ. Thus the catechist knows and avails of the contribution of the sciences of education, understood always in a Christian sense.