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A year-round, apprenticeship model for RCIA gives me confidence that we are forming disciples

Catechesis, Catechumens, RCIA, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Rosie Rundell has been a Pastoral Associate for Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Manhattan, Kansas, for 21 years. She has been involved with RCIA ministry for over 30 years in four different parishes. She received her undergraduate degree from Benedictine University, Atchison, Kansas; a Masters degree in Pastoral Ministry and a certificate in Spiritual Direction […]

A year-round, apprenticeship model for RCIA gives me confidence that we are forming disciples

Q&A: What if someone wants to join the RCIA in March?

Discernment, Q&A, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Q: Since the catechumens and candidates come into the church at the Easter Vigil, how do you handle someone who wants to join RCIA in, say, March, when the others in the RCIA process have been there for several months? A. This is an important question, and it gets to the heart of how parishes have

Q&A: What if someone wants to join the RCIA in March?

50 ideas for RCIA teams during the pandemic

Catechesis, Evangelization / Nick Wagner

Evangelization and outreach Host a weekly or monthly online chat on “What Catholics Think about _______.” Fill in the blank with common questions about Catholics or else whatever is in the news right now. For example: What Catholics Think about the Bible What Catholics Think about Saints What Catholics Think about Climate Change What Catholics

50 ideas for RCIA teams during the pandemic

Q&A: How do RCIA teams discern the readiness of children for becoming catechumens?

Catechumens, Children, Discernment, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Q: How do we “see” the signs of readiness with children and youth for celebrating the Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens? A. This is a great question. Thinking through the process of discernment for children and youth really challenges us to understand why discernment is important in the first place. In the

Q&A: How do RCIA teams discern the readiness of children for becoming catechumens?

We’re flexible: How our parish does year-round RCIA

Catechesis, Catechumens, RCIA, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Don Roberts has been the RCIA Team Leader for the Parish Community of St. Joseph in Belmont, NH, since 2012. In the 1980s, he and his late wife Pat introduced the process to their suburban Albany, NY, parish. After a 15-year stay in Virginia, they returned to RCIA in their retirement in New Hampshire. Don

We’re flexible: How our parish does year-round RCIA

The school model is a chokehold on the RCIA

Catechesis, Evangelization / Nick Wagner

Here at TeamRCIA, we spend a lot of time talking about the inadequacy adapting the catechumenate into a school model. Using a classroom paradigm is so common in parishes that many RCIA teams think it is the norm. However, if you read the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults carefully, you will find no reference

The school model is a chokehold on the RCIA

Jesus’s timing is perfect—one parish’s experience of year-round RCIA

Baptism, Catechesis, Catechumens, Elect, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Jess Panlener is on the Discipleship Team at St. Charles in Hartland, WI, outside of Milwaukee, where she is the RCIA (Becoming Fully Catholic) director, baptism coordinator, and adult and family minister. She holds a master’s degree in historical theology from Marquette University, but she is a Wisconsin Badger through and through. Jess and her

Jesus’s timing is perfect—one parish’s experience of year-round RCIA

Can RCIA seekers celebrate their sacraments outside of the Easter Vigil?

Baptism, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Q: Is there a possibility that a seeker would come to faith before the Easter Vigil… and how do you proceed with that scenario? A: This is a great question. The answer is a bit complicated, but if we dig a little deeper into the question, the answer becomes simpler. There is a caveat however.

Can RCIA seekers celebrate their sacraments outside of the Easter Vigil?

How the RCIA will renew our parishes after the pandemic

Catechumens, Evangelization / Nick Wagner

The renewal of the catechumenate is key to the renewal of our parishes. That was one of the points made in a recently released Vatican document, “The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community in the Service of the Evangelizing Mission of the Church” (Congregation for the Clergy, July 20, 2020). Given the time it takes

How the RCIA will renew our parishes after the pandemic

Why a year-round RCIA is important for baptized seekers

Candidates, RCIA, Year-Round / Nick Wagner

Inspired by an angel, Philip went out onto the road to preach. While on the road, he met a court official from Ethiopia. The Ethiopian was reading from the prophet Isaiah, but he didn’t understand what he was reading. Philip began to explain it to him and also to proclaim the good news about Jesus.

Why a year-round RCIA is important for baptized seekers

A year-round, apprenticeship model for RCIA gives me confidence that we are forming disciples

Q&A: What if someone wants to join the RCIA in March?

50 ideas for RCIA teams during the pandemic

Q&A: How do RCIA teams discern the readiness of children for becoming catechumens?

We’re flexible: How our parish does year-round RCIA

The school model is a chokehold on the RCIA

Jesus’s timing is perfect—one parish’s experience of year-round RCIA

Can RCIA seekers celebrate their sacraments outside of the Easter Vigil?

How the RCIA will renew our parishes after the pandemic

Why a year-round RCIA is important for baptized seekers

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