Catechesis

Is your RCIA open all year-round? First contact: Catechizing your parish on talking with seekers

Catechesis, Discernment, Year-Round /

For those of you who are Star Trek fans, the term “first contact” has a special meaning—it’s that moment when the Federation (typically humans) encounter an alien race for the first time. In the Star Trek universe, how well that “first contact” goes can have repercussions for generations, be it the positive relationship that developed […]

Is your RCIA open all year-round? First contact: Catechizing your parish on talking with seekers

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

Catechesis, Catechumens, RCIA, Year-Round /

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

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Having all your seekers around the same table

Catechesis, Discernment, Year-Round /

Perhaps one of the most common questions I hear when moving to a year-round process is, do we need to break everyone up into separate groups to facilitate the preparation process? In other words, keeping together certain cohorts who may be on a similar path? Or keeping cohorts who “started” together in a separate group?

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Having all your seekers around the same table

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

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

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

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Embracing “Pajama Catechesis” — Connecting with Seekers beyond COVID-19

Catechesis, Inquiry, RCIA, Year-Round /

Let’s be honest—many of our parishes do a poor job of connecting with and communicating with their communities. Not just with regular their parishioners, but especially with those whom we want to attract and bring into our communities—our seekers, our catechumens, and our candidates. One of the inadvertent gifts of COVID-19 was bring this challenge

Is your RCIA open all year-round? Embracing “Pajama Catechesis” — Connecting with Seekers beyond COVID-19

Q&A: Multiple seekers on the journey of faith—how to start a year-round RCIA

Catechesis, Inquiry, Year-Round /

Q: We have the people, support, space, everything needed to make a continuous initiation process happen. But exactly how do we proceed with the actual logistics of having people at different places, and how you speak to them individually but also as a group? How do you integrate new people without repeating yourself over and

Q&A: Multiple seekers on the journey of faith—how to start a year-round RCIA

Q&A: What is the right rite for baptized candidates in the RCIA?

Candidates, Catechesis, Catechumens, Q&A /

Q: How do we handle the reception of baptized candidates into full communion once the quarantine is lifted? A: Baptized candidates present us with a conundrum. In the United States, Canada, and most parts of Australia, the majority of those in our formation processes are baptized Christians. And the majority of the ritual text, the

Q&A: What is the right rite for baptized candidates in the RCIA?

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