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Preparing seekers during summer Ordinary Time, Cycle A – part one

Trinity Sunday Background: Grace, love, fellowship—these words from the end of this Sunday’s selection from 2 Corinthians provide the common threads that runs throughout all the readings. Today’s focus is not on the inner relationships among the Persons of the Trinity but upon their relationships with us in both Old and New Testaments. As the […]

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Preparing seekers during summer Ordinary Time, Cycle A – part one

Six myths about RCIA in the parish

Dismissal, Evangelization, Q&A, RCIA / Nick Wagner

Myth: A year-round catechumenate process is harder than a school-year program Every parish team I’ve talked with that has transitioned to an ongoing catechumenate process tells me that the amount of work involved is either the same or less than when they were running a school. See: Free download: The one, most important thing we

Six myths about RCIA in the parish

Five things to know about dismissals

Dismissal / Diana Macalintal

1: Catechumens have a job to do The reason catechumens are dismissed for the Mass after the homily is not because they cannot yet share in Communion. It is because they have a specific role in the worshipping assembly. As soon as a person enters the order of catechumens, they have two important liturgical responsibilities.

Five things to know about dismissals

The symbolic importance of the RCIA dismissal

Catechumens, Dismissal / Nick Wagner

There are two dismissals in the Sunday liturgy. The one Catholics are most familiar with is the second one, the dismissal of the faithful at the end of Mass. The other is becoming better known. That is the dismissal of the catechumens at the end of the Liturgy of the word. Both dismissals are sometimes

The symbolic importance of the RCIA dismissal

How neophytes learn to participate in the Mass

Dismissal, Liturgy, Neophytes / Diana Macalintal

Your catechumens had been participating in the Liturgy of the Word for months, maybe even for years, and they pretty much know the routine. But now that they’re neophytes and are no longer dismissed from the Mass after the homily, some of them might be feeling a little lost in their new experience of the

How neophytes learn to participate in the Mass

Looking again at why the dismissal is important

Catechumens, Dismissal / Diana Macalintal

One article that has received a lot of comments here on TeamRCIA is “Why dismiss the catechumens before Jesus becomes present?” (Scroll down to the end of the article at the link to see all the comments so far!) Dismissal is such an integral part of the formation of catechumens that the rite lists it as one of

Looking again at why the dismissal is important

Why dismiss the catechumens before Jesus becomes present?

Catechesis, Dismissal, Liturgy / Nick Wagner

At a recent TeamRCIA Institute, a participant was flummoxed about the dismissal of the catechumens after the homily. Why, he wanted to know, would we dismiss people who are learning about Jesus before Jesus is made present in the Mass (at the moment of consecration)? Free download: 8 ways to make mystagogy work in your

Why dismiss the catechumens before Jesus becomes present?

Four ways the RCIA dismissal teaches faith

Catechesis, Dismissal / Nick Wagner

Four ways the RCIA dismissal teaches faith

What happens during dismissal?

Catechumens, Dismissal / Nick Wagner

After you dismiss the catechumens from the liturgy, what happens? I’ve heard lots of folks refer to “dismissal catechesis.” Are you doing catechesis during the dismissal session? Are you doing breaking open of the word? Do you ever “break open” anything besides the word—the opening prayer or the opening song, for example? Click here for

What happens during dismissal?

A powerful conversion process for baptized candidates in the RCIA

Candidates, Dismissal / Nick Wagner

Here is a quote that might surprise you: If the eucharist is to be celebrated, the catechumens are normally dismissed at this point…. Why is that surprising, you might wonder. Isn’t it normal to dismiss catechumens before the Eucharist? It is surprising, for some of us, because the statement comes at the end of the

A powerful conversion process for baptized candidates in the RCIA

Preparing seekers during summer Ordinary Time, Cycle A – part one

Six myths about RCIA in the parish

Five things to know about dismissals

The symbolic importance of the RCIA dismissal

How neophytes learn to participate in the Mass

Looking again at why the dismissal is important

Why dismiss the catechumens before Jesus becomes present?

Four ways the RCIA dismissal teaches faith

What happens during dismissal?

A powerful conversion process for baptized candidates in the RCIA

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