Several of the TeamRCIA members will be at the North American Forum Convocation next month. I’ll be speaking on “How to Get the Whole Parish Community on Your Formation Team.” There is lots of scholarship money still available, so you could get much of the $298.00 registration fee waved. The beginning of the latest Forum […]
RCIA convocation offers more than four dozen practical workshops
The central liturgy for catechumens is the first half of the Sunday Eucharist called the Liturgy of the Word. When catechumens are dismissed, they reflect on what they experienced in the Liturgy of the Word and share how their experience connects to their daily life. One of the United States bishops’ documents on liturgical music
Evaluating your Liturgy of the Word
Part of being Word people is to reflect on our life and faith through the Word. These faith-sharing skills are essential for your team members who will lead dismissal sessions and other gatherings of catechumens because faith-sharing will help the catechumens connect Scripture to their daily lives. People learn best how to effectively lead faith-sharing
Faith-sharing skills for your team
The Year of Saint Paul Reading II 1 Thes 1:1-5b We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ…. The way of faith The Holy Spirit, whom Christ
Catechesis for 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Now is a good time to review paragraph 75 of the RCIA, which outlines the four practices of faith into which we are to apprentice the catechumens. The first section of paragraph 75 calls for a “suitable catechesis” that is “solidly supported by celebrations of the word.” In The Coming of God, Maria Boulding reminds
Form catechumens in God’s Word
The Year of Saint Paul Reading II Philippians 4:6-9 Brothers and sisters: Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God…. The way of faith “Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.”
Catechesis for 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
What are your thoughts on allowing a husbands or wives to serve as sponsors for their spouses? I’m uncomfortable with it, but it seems as though it happens in a lot of parishes. If you allow spouse-sponsors in your parish, what has been your experience? Do you make a distinction between sponsors and godparents? That
Spouses as sponsors in the RCIA process
The Year of Saint Paul Reading II Philippians 2:1-11 Brothers and sisters… Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves…. The way of faith “The universal Church is “Ëœa people brought into unity from the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.’”
Catechesis for 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The North American Forum on the Catechumenate is providing an excellent training opportunity for you and your RCIA team this fall. Their fifth international convocation, titled “Handing On What We Have Received from the Lord,” will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on November 6-8, 2008. The conference planners promise that participants will: rediscover the church’s
Recently, I was at a liturgy with what appeared to be some unsponsored catechumens. Perhaps they had sponsors, and the sponsors were just absent that day. Still, I wondered how that happened. In sponsor training sessions, it is important to emphasize the crucial role sponsors play on Sundays. Here are nine tasks for sponsors to
9 tasks for RCIA sponsors on Sunday
