Rite of Acceptance

From seekers to disciples: Unpacking the conversion journey within the Rite of Acceptance

Embarking on a journey of faith and seeking a deeper relationship with Christ is a profound and life-changing experience. The Rite of Acceptance plays a vital role in this conversion process. When we celebrate this rite with inquirers, they are changed from outsiders to insiders as the community embraces them as their own. But this …

From seekers to disciples: Unpacking the conversion journey within the Rite of Acceptance

What you can and cannot adapt in the Rite of Acceptance

RCIA, Rite of Acceptance / Diana Macalintal

Today we’ll examine three places we can adapt from where the norm is given, three places where we can and should make adaptations, three places where you must adapt the text, and three places where you cannot adapt or divert from the norm provided. How does this sound like what happens in your parish? Share …

What you can and cannot adapt in the Rite of Acceptance

Music for the Rite of Acceptance

Rite of Acceptance / Diana Macalintal

Even if you’re not the music coordinator or liturgist for your community, you can still engage your parish community in this significant and important first ritual for your seekers on their journey of faith. The role of the assembly is what will bring this ritual alive! Free download: The parish is the RCIA catechetical plan

Rite of Acceptance: Get the assembly to go out

Rite of Acceptance / Diana Macalintal

The Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens instructs that a group of the faithful go outside to gather with those who will become catechumens. How do you convince your entire assembly to move and go out?

The Ins and Outs of the Rite of Acceptance

Liturgy, Rite of Acceptance / Diana Macalintal

Have you ever wondered about how to help your parishioners and new catechumens understand better the meaning of the Rite of Acceptance? Then just take a look at your church doors. In this short video, Diana walks you through three moments in the Rite of Acceptance where the church doors play a significant role …

The Ins and Outs of the Rite of Acceptance

Is the Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens mandatory?

Catechumens, Rite of Acceptance / Nick Wagner

The short answer is yes. Perhaps because we are just now emerging from our COVID stay-at-home isolation, parish teams seem to be asking about the rites of initiation and if all of them are mandatory. Some seekers may have a pressing need to forgo the normal sacramental process and be baptized without delay. This pastoral …

Is the Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens mandatory?

The Rite of Acceptance — the beginning of a paschal journey for the RCIA seekers

Rite of Acceptance / Nick Wagner

Earlier in this series on the rites of the catechumenate process, we discussed liminality. To live in a liminal state is the live betwixt and between, neither here nor there. The Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens is the first and clearest rite that puts seekers into a liminal life. There are two …

The Rite of Acceptance — the beginning of a paschal journey for the RCIA seekers

Should we provide ritual scripts for RCIA seekers?

RCIA, Rite of Acceptance / Nick Wagner

Some of the RCIA rituals can be complicated. The Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens, for example, takes place in several locations, requires at least one procession, includes multiple gestures, and has many different moments of ritual dialogue. Our first inclination might be to write out a script for the seekers so they …

Should we provide ritual scripts for RCIA seekers?

A memorable rite of welcome

Candidates, RCIA, Rite of Acceptance / Nick Wagner

Mollie Muntefering is the coordinator of liturgy and music at St. Mary Catholic Church in Waverly, Iowa. Does your parish have a year-round RCIA process? Do you have a story you’d like to share? If so, please send about 1,000 words to Nick Wagner, nick@teamrcia.com. On the first Sunday of Advent this year, St. Mary …

A memorable rite of welcome

Q&A: How do RCIA teams plan for the signing of the senses in the Rite of Acceptance during the pandemic?

Q&A, RCIA, Rite of Acceptance, Sponsors / Diana Macalintal

Q: During the pandemic, how should we handle the signing the senses in the Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens? Is it permissible to sign without touching the person? In other words, to make the sign of the cross in front of the eyes, the mouth, etc. rather than actually on them? A: …

Q&A: How do RCIA teams plan for the signing of the senses in the Rite of Acceptance during the pandemic?

From seekers to disciples: Unpacking the conversion journey within the Rite of Acceptance

What you can and cannot adapt in the Rite of Acceptance

Music for the Rite of Acceptance

Rite of Acceptance: Get the assembly to go out

The Ins and Outs of the Rite of Acceptance

Is the Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens mandatory?

The Rite of Acceptance — the beginning of a paschal journey for the RCIA seekers

Should we provide ritual scripts for RCIA seekers?

A memorable rite of welcome

Q&A: How do RCIA teams plan for the signing of the senses in the Rite of Acceptance during the pandemic?

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