Comments on: 32 best RCIA practices for Easter Vigil

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:31:20 +0000

Hi Maureen. Try this:

PRESIDER:
Quienes son los candidatos para el sacramento de Bautismo?
Who are the candidates for Baptism?

Cantor: [cantor chants the names of candidates]

[The elect and their sponsors stand. After all the names are called, the cross bearer leads the candidates through the assembly. The Litany of Saints continues as they process.]

[Elect and their sponsors move to the the font.]

By: Maureen Sandoval

Maureen Sandoval — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:45:01 +0000

Can you give me an example of wording used to call the elect forward to be Baptized? We will call them forward with their godparents, then they will process back to the baptismal font.

By: Lawson

Lawson — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:05:55 +0000

Get big fluffy white robes for the newly baptized to wrap themselves in as they wait and watch others of their “class” get be baptized.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:05:53 +0000

Great idea Andrew!

By: Andrew Casad

Andrew Casad — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:56:24 +0000

We always have the elect wait to receive the Light of Christ until called for during the explanatory rites following their baptism. To make the symbolism all the more powerful, their initiation candles are small versions of our full Paschal candle with the same decorative banding. It then becomes a really powerful gesture when those baptized last year bring their initiation candle back to be relit from this year’s Paschal candle.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:04:12 +0000

Hi Cindy. That could probably go either way. The rite doesn’t say anything one way or the other. But I like the symbolism of the elect waiting until after their baptism to receive the light from the Christ candle.

Nick

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:07:25 +0000

Can you say more about why we should not give individual candles to the newly Baptized at the easter Vigil? thanks Cindy