Comments on: The team you need for a year-round RCIA http://teamrcia.com/2008/05/25/the-team-you-need-for-a-year-round-rcia/ PREPARE TO INITIATE: Start and sustain the catechumenate in your community Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:41:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Nick http://teamrcia.com/2008/05/25/the-team-you-need-for-a-year-round-rcia/#comment-870 Nick Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:57:53 +0000 http://teamrcia.com/?p=180#comment-870 Great insight Doug. I think your last sentence says it all. We just need to gather up our courage and take a leap of faith. Thanks for the comment. Great insight Doug. I think your last sentence says it all. We just need to gather up our courage and take a leap of faith. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Doug Reatini http://teamrcia.com/2008/05/25/the-team-you-need-for-a-year-round-rcia/#comment-868 Doug Reatini Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:37:23 +0000 http://teamrcia.com/?p=180#comment-868 Nick, I would agree that it isn't more work, just different. It took me one 9-month academic year to decide to go year round. All I needed was that one person who came in January asking about becoming Catholic. I had to tell them that they needed to wait until August when I would be starting the 'program' again. I never heard from that person again and decided that was the last time I would get in the way of the Holy Spirit. It was a hybrid for a year, but by my 3rd year in the parish we did have a year round RCIA with people to take care of precatechumenate, with people recruiting and training sponsors, and with a core of 4-5 catechists for the catechumenate. Was it perfect? No. But each year we evaluated the process and worked on ways to improve it. People just need to have the courage to jump in! Nick, I would agree that it isn’t more work, just different. It took me one 9-month academic year to decide to go year round. All I needed was that one person who came in January asking about becoming Catholic. I had to tell them that they needed to wait until August when I would be starting the ‘program’ again. I never heard from that person again and decided that was the last time I would get in the way of the Holy Spirit.

It was a hybrid for a year, but by my 3rd year in the parish we did have a year round RCIA with people to take care of precatechumenate, with people recruiting and training sponsors, and with a core of 4-5 catechists for the catechumenate.

Was it perfect? No. But each year we evaluated the process and worked on ways to improve it. People just need to have the courage to jump in!

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