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Keeping the Easter Season: Help your catechumenate team “live into” the liturgical year

Easter, Mystagogy /

Catechists for initiation know well that they need to introduce newcomers to the fullness of the Christian calendar. Yet, depending on their own formation, they may not really “live into” the liturgical year very deeply themselves. If this is the case, the presentation of the liturgical year, despite good intentions, may be fairly weak. It’s […]

Keeping the Easter Season: Help your catechumenate team “live into” the liturgical year

Embrace your RCIA constraints

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After “our team is too small,” the next-biggest complaint I hear from RCIA teams is “we don’t have enough.” Enough budget, enough space, enough training, enough resources. I learned a lesson about this a long time ago. My first parish job involved helping with a long-term church renovation project. The renovation took several years because

Embrace your RCIA constraints

What a Catholic nun and a group of Evangelical teenagers taught me about the Bible

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I was standing in a bookstore with my mother; we were looking at Bibles. Who knew there were so many? I expected to find “The Bible.” The choices between “leather” and “leatherette” alone were enough to confuse me. We also had to consider paper and hardcover, red-letter and family, amplified and…I don’t know. Quiet? And

What a Catholic nun and a group of Evangelical teenagers taught me about the Bible

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