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Is your parish ready for the new translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults?

When the current translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was promulgated in 1988, we might not have been as prepared as we need to be. Because we weren’t quite ready, many misinterpretations and misapplications of the rite began to flourish. The biggest difficulty is that the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults …

Is your parish ready for the new translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults?

Initiation team resources for Lent, Triduum and the Easter Season

Lent, Team / Clare Colella

In a recent Community Chat, TeamRCIA discussed the many ways the baptismal priesthood is the primary agent of formation for the inquirers, catechumens, elect, and baptized candidates. There were a lot of questions about where to find resources to help parishioners “do Lent” in such a way that they also accompany the seekers on their …

Initiation team resources for Lent, Triduum and the Easter Season

Do you have millennials on your catechumenate team?

Evangelization, Team / Nick Wagner

At our 2021 year-end review meeting for TeamRCIA, we discovered a surprising fact about millennials. When we started TeamRCIA in 2007, millennials were barely a thing. That year, the oldest of them was in their mid-20s. Today, the youngest of them is in their mid-20s and the elders are just reaching their 40s. What have …

Do you have millennials on your catechumenate team?

Be sure your RCIA sponsors have what it takes

Sponsors, Team / Nick Wagner

A couple of weeks ago, we hosted an online Community Chat on the topic of sponsors in the catechumenate process. We had a terrific conversation and covered a lot of ground. Several questions kept coming up that seemed to me to be the same question being asked in different ways. I want to write about …

Be sure your RCIA sponsors have what it takes

The journey toward becoming an RCIA catechist

Catechesis, RCIA, Team / Nick Wagner

For a few weeks now, we have been exploring the ministry of catechist and specifically what the Directory for Catechesis calls for in the formation of catechists. If you have read the entire series—and especially if you read the sections of the Directory upon which I based the articles in the series—you may wonder who …

The journey toward becoming an RCIA catechist

Five attitudes necessary for your RCIA team’s savoir-faire

Catechesis, Team / Nick Wagner

If you have been following along in this series on the ministry of catechist, you will know that we have most recently been looking at what the Directory for Catechesis identifies as the three dimensions of formation for catechists: We have arrived at the final dimension, savoir-faire. Savoir-faire is one of those terms that I …

Five attitudes necessary for your RCIA team’s savoir-faire

What RCIA teams need to know about how catechists are formed

Catechesis, Team / Nick Wagner

After Pope Francis instituted a new ministry of catechist, we began looking at what that might mean for RCIA teams. Earlier, we looked at why is the new ministry of catechist important and then at the identity of the catechist as witness, mystagogue, and accompanier. In this post, I want to discuss how we get …

What RCIA teams need to know about how catechists are formed

Why is the new ministry of catechist important for RCIA teams?

Catechesis, Team / Nick Wagner

On May 11, 2021, Pope Francis instituted a new ministry of catechist. You may be thinking, as I did when I heard the news, that we have had the ministry of catechist since the Second Vatican Council. In fact, we could say that the ministry of catechist or teacher was established in the New Testament …

Why is the new ministry of catechist important for RCIA teams?

Why your RCIA team needs a mystagogue

Mystagogy, Team / Nick Wagner

When parishes look for RCIA catechists, they tend to look for people who are good at giving presentations. While this tendency is understandable, it’s not exactly what the church expects of a catechist. The Directory for Catechesis describes the catechist as someone who has a vocation. The catechist is a Christian who receives a particular …

Why your RCIA team needs a mystagogue

Q&A: Eight ways to get RCIA buy-in from everyone in the parish—including the pastor

Leadership, Q&A, Team / Nick Wagner

Q. How do I get buy-in for my RCIA vision from the parish leadership and faith community? A. This question is at the heart of being human and being in relationship. Differences among us are baked into our DNA. The challenge is, in spite of all our differences, how do we join together to proclaim …

Q&A: Eight ways to get RCIA buy-in from everyone in the parish—including the pastor

Is your parish ready for the new translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults?

Initiation team resources for Lent, Triduum and the Easter Season

Do you have millennials on your catechumenate team?

Be sure your RCIA sponsors have what it takes

The journey toward becoming an RCIA catechist

Five attitudes necessary for your RCIA team’s savoir-faire

What RCIA teams need to know about how catechists are formed

Why is the new ministry of catechist important for RCIA teams?

Why your RCIA team needs a mystagogue

Q&A: Eight ways to get RCIA buy-in from everyone in the parish—including the pastor

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