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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?

How to start a year-round initiation process

Evangelization, RCIA, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

More of our parishes would implement an ongoing (year-round) catechumenate process if they could imagine how to do so without adding to the stress of the team and needing to recruit more team members. The good news is that your parish already has an ongoing process. And some of the burdens the catechumenate team has

How to start a year-round initiation process

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Eastertime — Year B

Dismissal / Michael Marchal

You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.Fifth Sunday of EasterBackground: For two Sundays the gospel selections are a continuous reading from John, 15, part of what is called the Last Supper Discourse. It would seem odd that in Easter Season we are reading from a discourse given on Holy Thursday

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Eastertime — Year B

What is ongoing (year-round) RCIA, really?

Catechesis, Evangelization, Liturgy / Nick Wagner

When parishes that use an academic, school calendar model for evangelizing and catechizing seekers, it can be difficult to imagine any other way of doing things. Some common objections for expanding to an ongoing process include: We have limited resources The rest of the world is organized around a school-year schedule It’s just easier The

What is ongoing (year-round) RCIA, really?

Why is an ongoing (year-round) catechumenate important?

Evangelization, RCIA, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

One thing we learned during the pandemic is that the movement of the Holy Spirit in people’s hearts cannot be limited to a predetermined calendar. We have always known this, of course. But the pandemic forced us to be more flexible in our formation processes and find new, more responsive ways to accompany seekers on

Why is an ongoing (year-round) catechumenate important?

Why your RCIA team needs a mystagogue

Evangelization, Mystagogy, Team / Nick Wagner

When parishes look for RCIA catechists, they tend to look for people who are good at giving presentations. While this tendency is understandable, it’s not exactly what the church expects of a catechist. The Directory for Catechesis describes the catechist as someone who has a vocation. The catechist is a Christian who receives a particular

Why your RCIA team needs a mystagogue

Blessed Easter!

Easter / Diana Macalintal

Blessed Easter!

Why the RCIA period of mystagogy is crucial for your neophytes

Mystagogy, Neophytes / Nick Wagner

We have said many times before that mystagogy takes place throughout the entire catechumenate. If that’s so, why is there a particular period of the catechumenate specifically named “mystagogy”? To understand that, we have to understand how liturgy relates to catechesis. The church teaches that the liturgy is “the privileged place for catechizing the People

Why the RCIA period of mystagogy is crucial for your neophytes

Illuminating Christ: How to be a mystagogue

Mystagogy, Year-Round / Diana Macalintal

I don’t know if it’s just from celebrating so many Catholic liturgies over my lifetime, but I can’t look at fire—or the light and shadow cast by the sun, or an eclipse, or the full moon, or the candle on my dinner table—without thinking of the fire we light at the Easter Vigil. On the

Illuminating Christ: How to be a mystagogue

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Easter through the Fourth Sunday of Easter

Dismissal / Michael Marchal

Introduction to EastertimeIn the post-Vatican II reform of the Roman liturgy, Easter became not a day but a season. The Sundays are not named as “after” Easter but rather “of” Easter. We must not subdivide this season into chunks but celebrate its overall flow.Because the different New Testament writers approached their proclamation of the Good

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Easter through the Fourth Sunday of Easter

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

How to start a year-round initiation process

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Eastertime — Year B

What is ongoing (year-round) RCIA, really?

Why is an ongoing (year-round) catechumenate important?

Why your RCIA team needs a mystagogue

Blessed Easter!

Why the RCIA period of mystagogy is crucial for your neophytes

Illuminating Christ: How to be a mystagogue

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Easter through the Fourth Sunday of Easter

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