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Is your parish ready for the new translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults?

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When the current translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was promulgated in 1988, we might not have been as prepared as we need to be. Because we weren’t quite ready, many misinterpretations and misapplications of the rite began to flourish. The biggest difficulty is that the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults […]

Is your parish ready for the new translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults?

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 Easter Background: 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

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Eastertime — Year B

What does baptism do? A mystagogy on the sacramental act of washing

Baptism, Easter, Mystagogy, RCIA /

Someone recently asked on Facebook, “What is the Easter Vigil for?” The person asking is from a Christian tradition that does not usually celebrate baptisms at the Vigil. If you’re old enough, you will remember when that was true for Roman Catholics. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was issued shortly after Vatican II,

What does baptism do? A mystagogy on the sacramental act of washing

Everybody into the pool — sorting the baptized candidates in the RCIA

Candidates, Discernment, Team /

When we have baptized candidates in the RCIA, we run into a lot of complications. Ironically, training unbaptized catechumens who have little or no Christian formation can seem simpler and easier. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are three things we can do to simplify the formation process for baptized candidates. The

Everybody into the pool — sorting the baptized candidates in the RCIA

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