Member Formation Training — Ongoing RCIA: Welcoming Seekers All Year Round
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Member Formation Training — Ongoing RCIA: Welcoming Seekers All Year Round
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Is your RCIA open all year-round? The words we use are important
“When do your classes start?” For our seekers, it sounds like a perfectly reasonable question. After all, this is our fault. We have taught them these words so this is how they see the initiation process — take some classes and splash, now you’re a Catholic. But to my ears this question is a reminder
Is your RCIA open all year-round? The words we use are important
Is your RCIA open all year-round? How do you greet seekers?
Lent is a time of anticipation for everyone involved in the initiation process. Our elect are on the final forty days of their journey toward baptism, and we’re all hard at work making sure all the rites and activities go as planned. It’s a time where those going through the process have a certain excitement
Is your RCIA open all year-round? How do you greet seekers?
Is your RCIA open all year-round? Making room for parish events
What is more important for your catechumens and candidates—attending a catechetical session or attending a parish event? And let me ask a follow-up question—at which occasion does catechesis happen? Let’s start with the second question because that answer is going to inform the answer to the first. Catechesis happens at both occasions. For far too
Is your RCIA open all year-round? Making room for parish events
Move to a Year-Round RCIA
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Move to a Year-Round RCIA
If you’ve wondered how to shift your community from a September to May program to one that is always ready to welcome seekers and form disciples any time of the year—without adding more sessions to your schedule!—then this Video Marathon will get you started. We’ll walk you step-by-step through the process.
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Move to a Year-Round RCIA: Video Marathon
- Video 1: Step 1: Identify the Urgent Need for Year-Round RCIA
- Video 2: Step 2: Create Your Dream Team to Implement Year-Round RCIA
- Video 3: Step 3: Develop a Strategy for Year-Round RCIA
- Video 4: Step 4: Communicate Your Vision for Year-Round RCIA
- Video 5: Step 5: Smash the Barriers to Your Year-Round RCIA
Move to a Year-Round RCIA: Video Marathon
Planning for Year-Round RCIA: Webinar recording
Skills you and your team will learn:
- Developing a clear vision
- Forming your team for an ongoing process
- Creating a realistic plan
- Getting the whole parish on board
- Skills for removing roadblocks
- Ideas for celebrating success
- A method for keeping your vision alive
- A way to make sure your plan outlasts you
Planning for Year-Round RCIA: Webinar recording
Year-Round Mystagogy: Webinar recording
In this video training workshop, you and your team will learn:
- Why mystagogy all year round is important
- What mystagogy is and isn’t
- A simple process for doing mystagogy all year round
- What would happen if we used mystagogy throughout the initiation process
Year-Round Mystagogy: Webinar recording
Develop a Year-Round RCIA process: Webinar recording
In this webinar, you and your team will learn:
- Why an ongoing, year-round catechumenate is important to your parish
- What we mean when we say “year-round”
- How to implement an ongoing, year-round process
- What the long-term implications are of moving to a year-round process
Develop a Year-Round RCIA process: Webinar recording
