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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 13th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

13th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBackground: Once again words have power: over nature, as we saw last Sunday, and now over disease and death. But only if we have faith and trust in the power of God at work for us in Jesus. As the Book of Wisdom says, “death entered the world through sin,” and […]

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 13th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

The journey toward becoming an RCIA catechist

Catechesis, RCIA, Team / Nick Wagner

For a few weeks now, we have been exploring the ministry of catechist and specifically what the Directory for Catechesis calls for in the formation of catechists. If you have read the entire series—and especially if you read the sections of the Directory upon which I based the articles in the series—you may wonder who

The journey toward becoming an RCIA catechist

Five attitudes necessary for your RCIA team’s savoir-faire

Catechesis, Team / Nick Wagner

If you have been following along in this series on the ministry of catechist, you will know that we have most recently been looking at what the Directory for Catechesis identifies as the three dimensions of formation for catechists: We have arrived at the final dimension, savoir-faire. Savoir-faire is one of those terms that I

Five attitudes necessary for your RCIA team’s savoir-faire

RCIA catechists have to teach the faith…in context

Catechesis / Nick Wagner

In recent weeks, we have been exploring the ministry of catechist, especially now that Pope Francis has established this ministry as a permanent vocation. In the last post, we started looking at the three dimensions of formation for catechists: In this post, I want to spend some time on the second dimension of formation: knowledge. RCIA catechists

RCIA catechists have to teach the faith…in context

Does your RCIA team know how to “be with”?

Catechesis / Nick Wagner

In this series on the ministry of catechist, we have been exploring the implications of Pope Francis’s decision to establish this ministry as a permanent vocation. The Directory for Catechesis provides some excellent instruction on how parishes and dioceses are to form catechists for this ministry. Specifically, the Directory says there are three dimensions of

Does your RCIA team know how to “be with”?

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The Body and Blood of Christ to the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Dismissal / Michael Marchal

The Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)Background: Out of the 26 particular churches that make up the Catholic Church (Maronites, Ruthenians, etc.), only the Roman Church abandoned in the course of the Middle Ages the sharing of the Blood of Christ by all believers during Communion. At about the same time the observance of

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The Body and Blood of Christ to the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

What RCIA teams need to know about how catechists are formed

Catechesis, Team / Nick Wagner

After Pope Francis instituted a new ministry of catechist, we began looking at what that might mean for RCIA teams. Earlier, we looked at why is the new ministry of catechist important and then at the identity of the catechist as witness, mystagogue, and accompanier. In this post, I want to discuss how we get

What RCIA teams need to know about how catechists are formed

What is the ministry of the catechist?

Catechesis / Nick Wagner

In a previous post, we looked at the institution of the new ministry of catechist by Pope Francis and why that is important for RCIA teams. In the press conference announcing the new ministry, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization said, “It is obvious that not everyone who is

What is the ministry of the catechist?

Why is the new ministry of catechist important for RCIA teams?

Catechesis, Team / Nick Wagner

On May 11, 2021, Pope Francis instituted a new ministry of catechist. You may be thinking, as I did when I heard the news, that we have had the ministry of catechist since the Second Vatican Council. In fact, we could say that the ministry of catechist or teacher was established in the New Testament

Why is the new ministry of catechist important for RCIA teams?

What would happen if every parish had an ongoing (year-round) RCIA process?

Catechesis, Discernment, Evangelization, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

In a recent interview, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, said that Pope Francis has opened the church to a strong emphasis on four theological priorities: mission encounter the peripheries mercy Accomplishing a shift to these priorities, he said, “will require changes on how we do and are church.” Cardinal Tobin did not mention the

What would happen if every parish had an ongoing (year-round) RCIA process?

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 13th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

The journey toward becoming an RCIA catechist

Five attitudes necessary for your RCIA team’s savoir-faire

RCIA catechists have to teach the faith…in context

Does your RCIA team know how to “be with”?

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The Body and Blood of Christ to the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

What RCIA teams need to know about how catechists are formed

What is the ministry of the catechist?

Why is the new ministry of catechist important for RCIA teams?

What would happen if every parish had an ongoing (year-round) RCIA process?

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