The Good News of Christmas
Blessed Christmas to you from all of us here at TeamRCIA! May Jesus, the Word Become Flesh, dwell in you that all may know our good and gracious God.
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Q&A: Appropriate Attire for the Easter Vigil
Q: There is some discussion in our group around a new idea one of the team members has. Some are of the opinion that the candidates, those already baptized, should wear a white sort of cape which they would put on before the Vigil and wear throughout the whole of the Sacraments of Initiation, as …
Our Epiphany gifts to you for 2019!
Happy New Year and a blessed Epiphany to all of you! We hope you enjoy a couple of gifts from us here: A simple liturgy to bless your home and chalk your door on Epiphany and a fun video below on how to make Epiphany stars.
Six common RCIA questions about Easter Vigil
Should baptized candidates celebrate their sacraments at the Easter Vigil? Probably not, but there are exceptions. The National Statues for the Catechumenate tell us that baptized candidates should not celebrate their sacraments at the Easter Vigil so there won’t be any confusion between them and those who are being baptized (see no. 33). Within the …
Why is the norm of adult initiation so important?
For the first five centuries that the church existed, the norm for initiation was baptism of adults. Infants were probably also baptized, but the New Testament never explicitly mentions that they were. By the second century, there is more firm evidence of the baptism of infants and children, but it is not the norm. Some …
Merry Christmas from TeamRCIA!
Here’s a little gift for you from Nick and Diana (and Augustine, the Dog) If the video stops and starts: Click the white triangle at the bottom left of the video box, then pause the video by clicking the two white parallel bars that appear where the white triangle had been. The video …
Has Mystagogy Come into Its Own?
Once upon a time, if someone said the word “mystagogy,” people would be bewildered. Not anymore. For more and more Catholics, the term has come into its own. I have been teaching a course on the history of the sacraments for coordinators of religious education at the Archdiocese of New York. In our first class, …
TeamRCIA planning days
Diana Macalintal and I recently spent a couple days away to do extensive planning for TeamRCIA for the coming year. Before we left, we had a conference call with the other two team members that make up TeamRCIA—Rita Ferrone and Rita Burns Senseman. Regional RCIA training institutes On our call, we talked through some ideas …
TeamRCIA Meets with Diocesan Directors
TeamRCIA hosted a meeting online with diocesan directors yesterday to talk about the formation needs of those who minister in Christian Initiation. We discussed how best to meet those needs now that the North American Forum on the Catechumenate, the premier organization for RCIA institutes for more than 30 years, is closing its doors on …
Goodbye to good friends at the North American Forum on the Catechumenate
As most of you know by now, the North American Forum on the Catechumenate will be closing its doors on June 30, 2013. (If this is the first you are hearing about it, you can read more here.) The Forum has been a grassroots organization that was made up of everyone who was ever touched …
Goodbye to good friends at the North American Forum on the Catechumenate
