Archive for June, 2009

I just returned from an RCIA institute sponsored by the North American Forum on the Catechumenate. It was an engaging, intense, fulfilling couple of days. The participants were revved up from the beginning all the way through to the end. I love being with people who are so dedicated to catechumenate ministry. One question that [...]

The Concord Pastor wondered aloud the the other day about what requirements for membership we might list in our parish bulletins. He had run across a Unitarian Web site that got him wondering: I Googled the church and in perusing their website I came across the following with regards to membership in their parish: Becoming [...]

  To see how you might use one of these points in your catechesis, read “How to lead a 90-minute catechetical session.”       The Way of Faith Explain that poverty is a moral scandal that we cannot tolerate. In the news ROME ” The global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the [...]

How’s mystagogy going for you right now, in the middle of June? More importantly, how is it going for the neophytes? Some teams think the period of mystagogy ends with Pentecost, but that’s not what the U.S. bishops think. Flip your copy of the RCIA open to the very back and look for the the [...]

To see how you might use one of these points in your catechesis, read “How to lead a 90-minute catechetical session.” The Way of Faith Explain that God has made a covenant with the Jewish people and that the gifts of God are irrevocable. In the news White supremacist James von Brunn will be charged [...]

To see how you might use one of these points in your catechesis, read “How to lead a 90-minute catechetical session.” The Way of Faith Explain that “faith in God’s love encompasses the call and the obligation to respond with sincere love to divine charity” to all people (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2093). In [...]