I really wasn't sure

that it could actually work, but I think it did:  catechizing at the International Center of the LCMS in a brief chapel service that lasts about 20 minutes with only about 10 minutes of that for the catechization.  We plunged into the Ten Commandments today and, God willing, I'll continue the catechization each Wednesday for the next six months, working our way as far as we can get through the Small Catechism.  We'll wrap up at the end of June.  Not much "back and forth" today, but I'm hopeful that as the folks get to know me and I know them, they'll be a bit more comfortable chiming in.  Memory work for this week:  First commandment and its explanation.  Remember:  He insists on being your God because only in Him are the gifts that He longs to give you:  forgiveness for all sin, life bigger than death, the grace of sonship and being an heir of the Kingdom.  No idol can deliver the goods by which alone you can live.  Communion with the Blessed Trinity is what you were made for!  Amen!!!