Your Parish Is the Curriculum-RCIA in the Midst of the Community English A Guide to the Period

A Guide to the Period of the Catechumenate breaks open each of those ways of catechizing by first exploring the approach of catechesis accommodated to the liturgical year

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complementary rites

how to use the four key areas of parish life and the liturgical year to introduce seekers to Christ and train them in the Christian way of life

Your Parish Is the Curriculum-RCIA in the Midst of the Community English A Guide to the PeriodWe all agree that the community needs to be involved in the RCIA. So we make bulletin and Mass announcements explaining the rites and the RCIA process, hoping the parishioners will "get" their responsibility to initiate these seekers. Then, although catechumens, candidates, sponsors, and team members form a tight knit community, parishioners still wonder who these people are with their rituals that make the Mass long, and most of the newly initiated