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Presentation
Building an RCIA Team slides (PDF)
Resources
- Faith, Life & Creed: A Complete Catechesis for Christian Life
- Dreams and Visions: Pastoral Planning for Lifelong Faith Formation
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
- Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer
Faith, Life, & Creed videos
For more information about Faith, Life, & Creed, click here.
In two 40-minute sessions, Mary Birmingham gives you and your team a thorough primer and refresher course on the principles of the RCIA, the power of the liturgical year and the liturgy of the word, and how to hand on a love for Christ and the treasury of our Catholic doctrine to your catechumens and candidates.
We hope you watch these videos with your RCIA team and discuss them in your team formation gatherings. And then take a look at Faith, Life & Creed, the most complete conversion-oriented, liturgically-based catechesis for Christian life, available to you as PDF downloads directly to your own computer.
(If you want to view the videos in full screen, place your pointer over the bottom right corner of the video and click on the four arrows to the left of “Vimeo.”)
Part 1: Overview of the Catechetical Process
In Part 1, Mary takes you on a whirlwind tour of the general principles of the RCIA and how solid catechesis can flow directly from the liturgy, meditation on Scripture, fellowship with the Christian community, and the proclamation of the Gospel through works of mercy and service.
Part 2: Catechesis Step by Step
In Part 2, Mary shows you step by step how her new resource, Faith, Life & Creed gives even new catechists and RCIA teams the tools and the confidence to prepare a complete and comprehensive catechesis that respects the needs of each catechumen and candidate, is rooted in the liturgical year, and provides many opportunities for deeper conversion to Christ.
For more information about Faith, Life, & Creed, click here.
NEW Live Training Workshop
Introducing Friends on the Way
Children’s Catechumenate Resource
Presenter: Janet Miller
Description:
Janet Miller, author and designer of Friends on the Way, will give us a complete walk-through of this simple, concrete, comprehensive catechesis for child catechumens.
November 11, 2010
2:00p to 3:00p
Eastern Standard Time (GMT – 4:00)
Price: FREE
Click here to register now for this Webinar.
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If you have been searching for a catechetical resource for child catechumens, look no further.
Friends on the Way is designed for your child catechumens. This isn’t an adaptation of something originally designed for adult RCIA or Catholic sacramental preparation. It has been written, from the ground up, for unbaptized catechumens.
Friends on the Way is comprehensive. The program includes a dismissal session and a catechetical session for every Sunday of the liturgical year. In the course of the year, children learn about the entire mystery of faith.
Friends on the Way is flexible. Each unit is designed so that you can proceed to the catechetical session immediately after the dismissal session on Sunday. Or you can facilitate the catechetical session sometime later in the week.
Friends on the Way is intergenerational. We all know that older, unbaptized children often have parents who might need a good deal of formation themselves. Every session of Friends on the Way includes an optional intergenerational activity to help the parents help their children grow in faith plus a take-home handout for families to use at home to help them pray, share faith, and live that faith in their household.
Friends on the Way is engaging. Author and designer Janet Miller has been teaching children for 45 years. She serves in the children’s initiation ministry in her parish. And she has 10 grandchildren! She knows how to keep a child’s interest.
Friends on the Way is easy to use. The sessions are clearly outlined and includes illustrations when necessary. You can put this in the hands of your children’s RCIA catechists and have confidence they will succeed.
Friends on the Way is scriptural and liturgical. Every dismissal and catechetical session flows from the Sunday readings of the liturgical year.
Friends on the Way is linked to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Every catechetical session includes a direct reference to the Catechism.
Friends on the Way is economical. Because it is sold as an e-resource, production costs are low. Sessions are sent to you as download links. You have them on your computer and may use them as needed year after year. You only pay for them once. And your purchase entitles you to make as many copies as you need for use within your own parish.
Thank you for creating this. Since the resource we had been using has been discontinued, we have been putting together sessions from multiple sources which is time-consuming and confusing. Thank you so much for putting it all together in one resource.
Charlene Dumitru
Director of Adult Faith Formation and RCIA
St. Norbert Church, Orange, CA.
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