Nick Wagner is the cofounder and codirector of Team Initiation.
To order your copy of Year-Round Catechumenate, click here. Develop a Year-Round RCIA Process (webinar) Nick Wagner and Diana Macalintal Join us as we look at how moving to a year-round catechumenate process can begin to solve many common problems we encounter in the RCIA. Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 2:00p to 3:00p […]
Instant Review: Year-Round Catechumenate
TeamRCIA will host a webinar on moving to a year-round catechumenate on Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 11 a.m. Pacific time. Please take a moment to respond to these questions because your input will help shape the discussion during the webinar. Loading…
Survey: Does your RCIA go year-round?
Don Tapscott, in Growing Up Digital, lists eight shifts in learning styles for teenagers. The way I learned things as a teen was linearly. For lots of cultural reasons, teens no longer learn that way. This is important when we begin to think of evangelizing and catechizing teens in the catechumenate process. If we approach
Eight essential shifts in forming teenagers in the RCIA process
This may seem like an obvious question, but there is a not-so-obvious answer I’d like to explore. To get to that answer, let’s look at another vital activity in human life—marriage. If I asked why betrothing is important, I think our answers would be qualitatively different than when I ask why catechizing is important. The
Why are “catechesis” and “catechizing” important?
Here is a pop quiz. In the next month, if ten visitors come to your Sunday liturgy, how many would you guess will return for a second visit? According to Chris Walker, founder of EvangelismCoach.org, the answer is one or two. And can you guess the number-one reason the other eight to nine did not
The key to evangelization: start talking and start inviting
This single sentence may be one of the most powerful statements in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Find out why. Learn more from our series on paragraph 75 of the RCIA:
Liturgy is basic food and nourishment for the catechumens. Discover the critical importance of celebrating appropriate rituals with them. Learn more from our series on paragraph 75 of the RCIA:
Suitable liturgical rites: RCIA 75.3
Let’s try a thought exercise. Pretend for a moment that you are God on the day before Creation. What is going through your mind? Are you perhaps lonely and dreaming of what it would be like to have companions? If you had companions, what would they be like? What would they do? How would you
RCIA catechists: Are you good stewards of imagination?
A key way the catechumens learn the faith is through the good example of the community. Explore this important passage in the RCIA. Learn more from our series on paragraph 75 of the RCIA:
Every once in a while, I meet an inquirer who is a Type A, goal-driven personality. He or she wants to know how many meetings we will have, how long they will last, and what book he should read. More often, however, it is the RCIA team that is goal-driven. We meet to create a
