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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — 18th-22nd Sundays in Ordinary Time, Year A

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Introduction for 18th to 22nd Sundays: We have finished reading Matthew’s Sermon on Parables and move now to a crucial narrative section dealing with the Church as First-fruits of God’s Kingdom/Reign. Repeatedly we will see how the crucial step to enter that Kingdom/Reign is a deep faith in Jesus, a faith that rejects all other […]

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — 18th-22nd Sundays in Ordinary Time, Year A

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Embracing “Pajama Catechesis” — Connecting with Seekers beyond COVID-19

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Let’s be honest—many of our parishes do a poor job of connecting with and communicating with their communities. Not just with regular their parishioners, but especially with those whom we want to attract and bring into our communities—our seekers, our catechumens, and our candidates. One of the inadvertent gifts of COVID-19 was bring this challenge

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Embracing “Pajama Catechesis” — Connecting with Seekers beyond COVID-19

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — 14th – 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time, Year A

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14th Sunday in ordinary time Background : This Sunday’s selection is the first from Matthew’s exploration of the meaning of the Kingdom/Reign of God. The evangelist often refers to the Kingdom/Reign of Heaven, but that is a pious Jewish euphemism. A Jewish perspective is also needed to appreciate the references to the “learned,” which refers

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — 14th – 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time, Year A

Q&A: Multiple seekers on the journey of faith—how to start a year-round RCIA

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Q: We have the people, support, space, everything needed to make a continuous initiation process happen. But exactly how do we proceed with the actual logistics of having people at different places, and how you speak to them individually but also as a group? How do you integrate new people without repeating yourself over and

Q&A: Multiple seekers on the journey of faith—how to start a year-round RCIA

Q&A: What is the right rite for baptized candidates in the RCIA?

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Q: How do we handle the reception of baptized candidates into full communion once the quarantine is lifted? A: Baptized candidates present us with a conundrum. In the United States, Canada, and most parts of Australia, the majority of those in our formation processes are baptized Christians. And the majority of the ritual text, the

Q&A: What is the right rite for baptized candidates in the RCIA?

What is the correct RCIA rite to use for baptizing the elect outside the Easter Vigil?

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Most parishes in the United States, Canada, and Australia will be celebrating the sacraments of initiation with the elect in the coming weeks or months. Since this celebration is happening outside of the Easter Vigil, there is some confusion as to what ritual to use for initiation. The normative rite to use would be the

What is the correct RCIA rite to use for baptizing the elect outside the Easter Vigil?

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Managing expectations in a changing world

Catechesis, Catechumens, Leadership, Year-Round /

Like all of you I’ve been hard at work at finding ways to keep our initiation processes going while our churches have been closed and social distancing has become the norm. But even as challenging as that can be, the greater challenge has been working with those elect and candidates who were expecting to be

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Managing expectations in a changing world

Preparing seekers during summer Ordinary Time, Cycle A – part one

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Trinity Sunday Background: Grace, love, fellowship—these words from the end of this Sunday’s selection from 2 Corinthians provide the common threads that runs throughout all the readings. Today’s focus is not on the inner relationships among the Persons of the Trinity but upon their relationships with us in both Old and New Testaments. As the

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Preparing seekers during summer Ordinary Time, Cycle A – part one

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