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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year C – Easter Sunday through the Sixth Sunday of Easter

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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: Year C – Easter Sunday through the Sixth Sunday of Easter

Reflection Questions for Seekers: Year C – The First Sunday of Lent through Palm Sunday

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You can reflect on questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.First Sunday of LentBackground: To understand this Sunday’s gospel, we need to realize that we are jumping back over the unfolding of Jesus’s ministry in Galilee that we have been reading in the early Sundays of Ordinary Time and returning to his baptism

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Reflection Questions for Seekers: Year C – The First Sunday of Lent through Palm Sunday

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year C – Epiphany to the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.EpiphanyBackground: Matthew’s predominantly Jewish audience would have been a bit startled by the three Gentile “wise men” who come to adore the newborn King of the Jews. Yet Second Temple Judaism through the writings of the prophets had inherited a universalist component—as we see

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year C – Epiphany to the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for Seekers: Year C – The First Sunday of Advent to the Feast of the Holy Family

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You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.Discussion Questions – Cycle CIntroduction to Luke:Like Mark, Luke has arranged his gospel into four major sections: the Galilean ministry, the journey to Jerusalem, his ministry there, and the account of his death and resurrection. Yet Luke adds both an extended account of

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Reflection Questions for Seekers: Year C – The First Sunday of Advent to the Feast of the Holy Family

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 28th to 31st Sundays in Ordinary Time

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You can find reflection questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.28th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBackground:  You have to travel light if you want to journey with Jesus. Any teacher loves an eager student, and this young man who runs up and wants to do his best wins Jesus’s love. He seems wholehearted, but

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 28th to 31st Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 14th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

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You can get reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.14th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBackground:  Jesus is still in Galilee, now in his hometown, pursuing the ministry of teaching and healing. Both of these are prophetic activities, not because they predict the future (one meaning of “to prophesy”) but because they speak-forth (the

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 14th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: The Sixth Sunday of Easter through the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

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You can get reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.Sixth Sunday of EasterBackground: This Sunday’s gospel selection continues the emphasis upon how God in the risen Christ is always caring for us; the other readings remind us that God’s cares for people whom we think are supposed to be outside his love. Christ’s

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: The Sixth Sunday of Easter through the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: The Second through the Fifth Sundays of Easter

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You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.Second Sunday of EasterBackground: This was the day on which in ancient Rome the neophytes laid aside the white robes that they had been given during the rites of initiation at Easter Vigil and joined the body of the Faithful. And so, today’s readings

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: The Second through the Fifth Sundays of Easter

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — 3rd Sunday in Lent to Easter Sunday, Year B

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You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.Introduction to the Third to Fifth Sundays in Lent:The Johannine Gospels for the three middle Sundays in Lent for Year B pursue the same themes as those of Year A: how Jesus brings us in his person cleansing from sin, true light, and new

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — 3rd Sunday in Lent to Easter Sunday, Year B

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — All Saints Day to Christ the King Sunday, Year A

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You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.All Saints’ DayBackground: In a culture that is living more and more in a denial of death, this festival reminds us that we are “surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses” who “have run the race and kept the faith.” Yet when we

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers — All Saints Day to Christ the King Sunday, Year A

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