Balance Your Approach

Posted on August 3rd, 2010

RCIA Is a Liturgical Process

The Christian initiation process is intended to be fundamentally liturgical. Participants need and have a right to the grace that flows from the font of the Church’s liturgy as it is made available to them as catechumens and candidates prior to full communion. This grace is an indispensable aid to conversion, and the means by which they enter into intimate union with Christ and his Church.

RCIA Is a Catechetical Process

Catechesis is the process of passing on divine revelation – the deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles and maintained by the Magisterium – to obtain the two-fold goal of understanding and change. [Click here to read the rest of this entry… » ]

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RCIA Overview Chart

Posted on September 5th, 2008

RCIA Overview Chart, 2nd Edition
Association for Catechumenal Ministry
ISBN: 978-1-933374-12-3
Distributed by Liturgy Training Publications
To Order by Phone: (800) 933-1800
Orders outside U.S. & Canada: (773) 486-5630
Price: $6 ea. – Purchase Online

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Available in both Spanish and English, this color-coded, foldout overview chart shows the entire catechumenal process at a glance.  It highlights the liturgical, catechetical, and pastoral aspects of each of the 4 Periods of the RCIA and shows the different paths of the unbaptized participants, baptized uncatechetized participants, and the baptized catechized participants within the process. [Click here to read the rest of this entry… » ]

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