Abstract

The question of the language of catechesis is now deeply rooted in contemporary catechesis, finding its rightful place in it. Before the catechetical tradition included the language as a simple "tool" of communication of thought. The problem remained conceded on thought and its interpretative strength of reality. In recent and contemporary reflection is rethought again. Language is not a tool of thought in the sense that yes it reduces to being an obligatory way to manifest it; it is the horizon of thought and process
inerpretative of reality. Interpretation itself is elaborated in language and on its basis. Pereió language is man's horizon: in the interpretative sphere man is aware of himself and of the world in which he is immersed in that he has called any experience by name, he has it articulate it in language. The religious language, rich in symbols, parables, myths, etc. lia its fundamental function in revealing what we can call "sacrum", the true will of God..., but also to lead man to an existential encounter with God. „Only the language symbolic can break the obviousness of what is given and recorded, to connect form and idea, what is manifested and what is hidden, what appears on the surface and what is deep down, what is earthly and what is divine” (H. Halbfas)