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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 27th to 31st Sundays in Ordinary Time

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27th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBackground: Although a less prominent theme than in Luke, Jesus’s final journey to Jerusalem serves in Mark as the framework for his final teachings about what life in the kingdom/reign of God is like. If we are to “follow” him on the way to cross and resurrection, what road must we […]

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 27th to 31st Sundays in Ordinary Time

Six ways to convince others that the dismissal of catechumens is a good idea

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Perhaps the most frequent question we get here at TeamRCIA is some version of: “How do I convince [INSERT NAME/TITLE] that they should do [INSERT ACTION]? For example: “How do I convince the pastor we should be dismissing the catechumens from Mass?” Other versions of the question involve trying to convince the deacon, the parishioners,

Six ways to convince others that the dismissal of catechumens is a good idea

Frequently asked questions about the RCIA dismissal of catechumens

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Isn’t it inhospitable to dismiss catechumens from Mass? Everyone is dismissed from Mass. When we are dismissed depends upon which order of the church we belong to.In the early church, there were several orders of participants in the liturgy who were dismissed, all at different times: catechumens, energoumens (those possessed by demons), penitents, and the

Frequently asked questions about the RCIA dismissal of catechumens

Why is the dismissal of the RCIA catechumens important?

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One of the most misunderstood elements of the catechumenate process is the ritual dismissal of the catechumens from the Mass after the homily. Many catechumenate team members resist dismissing the catechumens because, to the team, it seems inhospitable. In other parishes, there is a tendency to go overboard, dismissing everyone including baptized candidates and even

Why is the dismissal of the RCIA catechumens important?

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 22nd to 26th Sundays in Ordinary Time

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22nd Sunday in Ordinary TimeBackground: Back to Mark after several weeks of John’s “bread of life discourse,” which explored the relationship between Jesus and the individual believer. Up until this interruption we had been seeing Jesus and his disciples proclaiming in Galilee the arrival of God’s promised kingdom/reign. Galilee was predominantly Jewish but surrounded by

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 22nd to 26th Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for Seekers: Year B – The 18th to 21st Sundays in Ordinary Time

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18th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBackground: This Sunday’s selection does not follow directly upon last Sunday’s since the crossing of the lake by Jesus has been omitted; that is why the crowd has to get into boats to see if he is on the other side. He had had to escape from them because they wanted

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Reflection Questions for Seekers: Year B – The 18th to 21st Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 13th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

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13th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBackground: Once again words have power: over nature, as we saw last Sunday, and now over disease and death. But only if we have faith and trust in the power of God at work for us in Jesus. As the Book of Wisdom says, “death entered the world through sin,” and

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 13th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The Body and Blood of Christ to the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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The Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)Background: Out of the 26 particular churches that make up the Catholic Church (Maronites, Ruthenians, etc.), only the Roman Church abandoned in the course of the Middle Ages the sharing of the Blood of Christ by all believers during Communion. At about the same time the observance of

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The Body and Blood of Christ to the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Eastertime — Year B

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You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here.Fifth Sunday of EasterBackground: For two Sundays the gospel selections are a continuous reading from John, 15, part of what is called the Last Supper Discourse. It would seem odd that in Easter Season we are reading from a discourse given on Holy Thursday

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Eastertime — Year B

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Easter through the Fourth 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: Easter through the Fourth Sunday of Easter

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