Dismissal

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year C – The 2nd Sunday of Advent to the Feast of the Holy Family

You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here. 2nd Sunday in Advent Background: We are a work in progress. Even including our catechumens, God’s good work has already been begun in us and is moving on to completion. Yet once again we have to do our part; we must face […]

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year C – The 2nd Sunday of Advent to the Feast of the Holy Family

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time to Year C – The 1st Sunday of Advent

You can reflect questions for every Sunday of the year by clicking here. 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Background: Having arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus once again finds himself arguing with the scribes, the teachers, and interpreters of the Torah. Like all the other Hebrew prophets who have preceded him, he calls to account those whose actions

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time to Year C – The 1st Sunday of Advent

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 27th to 31st Sundays in Ordinary Time

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Background: Although a less prominent theme than in Luke, Jesus’s final journey to Jerusalem serves in Mark as the framework for his final teachings about what life in the kingdom/reign of God is like. If we are to “follow” him on the way to cross and resurrection, what road must

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 27th to 31st Sundays in Ordinary Time

Six ways to convince others that the dismissal of catechumens is a good idea

Perhaps the most frequent question we get here at TeamRCIA is some version of: “How do I convince [INSERT NAME/TITLE] that they should do [INSERT ACTION]? For example: “How do I convince the pastor we should be dismissing the catechumens from Mass?” Other versions of the question involve trying to convince the deacon, the parishioners,

Six ways to convince others that the dismissal of catechumens is a good idea

Frequently asked questions about the RCIA dismissal of catechumens

Isn’t it inhospitable to dismiss catechumens from Mass? Everyone is dismissed from Mass. When we are dismissed depends upon which order of the church we belong to.In the early church, there were several orders of participants in the liturgy who were dismissed, all at different times: catechumens, energoumens (those possessed by demons), penitents, and the

Frequently asked questions about the RCIA dismissal of catechumens

Why is the dismissal of the RCIA catechumens important?

One of the most misunderstood elements of the catechumenate process is the ritual dismissal of the catechumens from the Mass after the homily. Many catechumenate team members resist dismissing the catechumens because, to the team, it seems inhospitable. In other parishes, there is a tendency to go overboard, dismissing everyone including baptized candidates and even

Why is the dismissal of the RCIA catechumens important?

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 22nd to 26th Sundays in Ordinary Time

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Background: Back to Mark after several weeks of John’s “bread of life discourse,” which explored the relationship between Jesus and the individual believer. Up until this interruption we had been seeing Jesus and his disciples proclaiming in Galilee the arrival of God’s promised kingdom/reign. Galilee was predominantly Jewish but surrounded

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 22nd to 26th Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 18th to 21st Sundays in Ordinary Time

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Background: This Sunday’s selection does not follow directly upon last Sunday’s since the crossing of the lake by Jesus has been omitted; that is why the crowd has to get into boats to see if he is on the other side. He had had to escape from them because they

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 18th to 21st Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 13th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Background: Once again words have power: over nature, as we saw last Sunday, and now over disease and death. But only if we have faith and trust in the power of God at work for us in Jesus. As the Book of Wisdom says, “death entered the world through sin,”

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The 13th to 17th Sundays in Ordinary Time

Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The Body and Blood of Christ to the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

The Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Background: Out of the 26 particular churches that make up the Catholic Church (Maronites, Ruthenians, etc.), only the Roman Church abandoned in the course of the Middle Ages the sharing of the Blood of Christ by all believers during Communion. At about the same time the observance

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Reflection Questions for RCIA Seekers: Year B – The Body and Blood of Christ to the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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