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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year A – The 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time through the 1st Sunday of Lent

The 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time Background: The Sermon on the Mount continues; we are once again being taught the basics of life in God’s kingdom/reign. And they are not about kosher ordinances or other do’s and don’t’s but about love in action—which is why this selection from Isaiah was chosen to parallel this Gospel. […]

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year A – The 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time through the 1st Sunday of Lent

What makes a catechumenate team leader?

Team / Nick Wagner

There is a famous Van Gogh painting titled Irises. The frame is dominated by dozens of beautiful blue irises. And off to the left, almost as if it is being pushed out of the picture, is a single white iris. Some might say the white iris doesn’t fit, yet somehow it does. If you are

What makes a catechumenate team leader?

What you can and cannot adapt in the Rite of Acceptance

Liturgy, RCIA, Rite of Acceptance / Diana Macalintal

Today we’ll examine three places we can adapt from where the norm is given, three places where we can and should make adaptations, three places where you must adapt the text, and three places where you cannot adapt or divert from the norm provided. How does this sound like what happens in your parish? Share

What you can and cannot adapt in the Rite of Acceptance

What to do if you are a catechumenate “team of one”

Team, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed by all there is to do in initiation ministry. At times, I’ve been the only person on the catechumenate “team.” Even parishes blessed with larger teams can feel like there is always more to do than people to help. How in the world are we going to manage it all?

What to do if you are a catechumenate “team of one”

Three principles for adapting the rites of the catechumenate

Liturgy / Nick Wagner

We’ve all seen images of sailboats racing through the water, tipped way over to one side, looking like they are about to capsize. I don’t know how the sailors keep their boats afloat like that. To me, it looks like magic. But I do know how to tip liturgies into the wind. Just as a

Three principles for adapting the rites of the catechumenate

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year A – The 2nd through 4th Sundays of Ordinary Time

Dismissal / Michael Marchal

The 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Background: Ordinary Time gets its name because each year one of the three synoptic gospels is read “in order” starting with the Baptism of the Lord which marks the end of the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany season and going on through 34 Sundays to Christ the King. Only Lent-Easter-Pentecost interrupt the steady […]

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year A – The 2nd through 4th Sundays of Ordinary Time

Catechumenate team goals for the New Year

Team, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle may be the father of the New Year’s resolution. Legend has it that he made a resolution to become more virtuous and then kept a daily journal to track his progress. The legend doesn’t say if he reached his goal, but we do know that it is difficult for most

Catechumenate team goals for the New Year

What does the Rite (Order) of Christian Initiation of Adults say about adaptation?

Evangelization, Liturgy, RCIA / Nick Wagner

Adaptation is an important concept in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Paulist priest and liturgist, Ricky Manalo, says liturgical adaptation is like Thanksgiving dinner. Preparations usually do not begin with decisions about appetizers or salads, but with the main course, turkey. The next decisions probably concern stuffing, mashed potatoes, and gravy, then vegetables

What does the Rite (Order) of Christian Initiation of Adults say about adaptation?

Why is the adaptation of the rites so important?

Liturgy, RCIA / Nick Wagner

The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which was the first teaching issued by the Second Vatican Council in 1963, established the goal of adaptation in the very first paragraph: The sacred Council has set out to impart an ever-increasing vigor to the Christian life of the faithful; to adapt more closely to the needs of

Why is the adaptation of the rites so important?

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Christmas Season

Dismissal / Michael Marchal

Christmas Mass During the Day Background: This is the last and oldest set of readings for Christmas in the Roman Rite. It can startle us because there are none of the details about the baby and the manger that we are so used to from the Lucan infancy narrative. Yet a saying from St. Athanasius, […]

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Christmas Season

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year A – The 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time through the 1st Sunday of Lent

What makes a catechumenate team leader?

What you can and cannot adapt in the Rite of Acceptance

What to do if you are a catechumenate “team of one”

Three principles for adapting the rites of the catechumenate

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year A – The 2nd through 4th Sundays of Ordinary Time

Catechumenate team goals for the New Year

What does the Rite (Order) of Christian Initiation of Adults say about adaptation?

Why is the adaptation of the rites so important?

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Christmas Season

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