Your Parish Is the Curriculum: Rcia in the Midst of Community
We all agree that the community needs to be involved in the OCIA. So we make bulletin and Mass announcements explaining the rites and the OCIA process, hoping the parishioners will “get” their responsibility to initiate these seekers. Then, although catechumens, candidates, sponsors, and team members form a tight-knit community, parishioners still wonder who these people are with their rituals that make the Mass long and most of the newly initiated still disappear from the parish after Easter.

Taking to heart what the United States bishops said in their document on adult faith formation—“While the parish may have an adult faith formation program, it is no less true that the parish is an adult faith formation program”—Diana Macalintal argues that we have to stop trying to get the parish involved in the OCIA and start getting the catechumens and candidates involved in the parish.

In this book, readers will discover:1. why doing the OCIA in the midst of the community not only forms seekers into disciples but renews the conversion of the entire parish; 2. what parishioners can do to take responsibility for the initiation of adults, without adding another meeting to their lives; 3. how to use the four key areas of parish life and the liturgical year to introduce seekers to Christ and train them in the Christian way of life; 4. the three levels of catechesis and how to use mystagogical reflection on parish life to provide a systematic and complete catechesis appropriate for each level.

When you make your parish the OCIA curriculum, you will be shaping not just a group of people but an entire community into lifelong disciples.

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Your Parish Is the Curriculum: Rcia in the Midst of Community
We all agree that the community needs to be involved in the OCIA. So we make bulletin and Mass announcements explaining the rites and the OCIA process, hoping the parishioners will “get” their responsibility to initiate these seekers. Then, although catechumens, candidates, sponsors, and team members form a tight-knit community, parishioners still wonder who these people are with their rituals that make the Mass long and most of the newly initiated still disappear from the parish after Easter.

Taking to heart what the United States bishops said in their document on adult faith formation—“While the parish may have an adult faith formation program, it is no less true that the parish is an adult faith formation program”—Diana Macalintal argues that we have to stop trying to get the parish involved in the OCIA and start getting the catechumens and candidates involved in the parish.

In this book, readers will discover:1. why doing the OCIA in the midst of the community not only forms seekers into disciples but renews the conversion of the entire parish; 2. what parishioners can do to take responsibility for the initiation of adults, without adding another meeting to their lives; 3. how to use the four key areas of parish life and the liturgical year to introduce seekers to Christ and train them in the Christian way of life; 4. the three levels of catechesis and how to use mystagogical reflection on parish life to provide a systematic and complete catechesis appropriate for each level.

When you make your parish the OCIA curriculum, you will be shaping not just a group of people but an entire community into lifelong disciples.

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Your Parish Is the Curriculum: Rcia in the Midst of Community

Your Parish Is the Curriculum: Rcia in the Midst of Community

by Diana Macalintal
Your Parish Is the Curriculum: Rcia in the Midst of Community
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Your Parish Is the Curriculum: Rcia in the Midst of Community

Your Parish Is the Curriculum: Rcia in the Midst of Community

by Diana Macalintal

Overview

We all agree that the community needs to be involved in the OCIA. So we make bulletin and Mass announcements explaining the rites and the OCIA process, hoping the parishioners will “get” their responsibility to initiate these seekers. Then, although catechumens, candidates, sponsors, and team members form a tight-knit community, parishioners still wonder who these people are with their rituals that make the Mass long and most of the newly initiated still disappear from the parish after Easter.

Taking to heart what the United States bishops said in their document on adult faith formation—“While the parish may have an adult faith formation program, it is no less true that the parish is an adult faith formation program”—Diana Macalintal argues that we have to stop trying to get the parish involved in the OCIA and start getting the catechumens and candidates involved in the parish.

In this book, readers will discover:1. why doing the OCIA in the midst of the community not only forms seekers into disciples but renews the conversion of the entire parish; 2. what parishioners can do to take responsibility for the initiation of adults, without adding another meeting to their lives; 3. how to use the four key areas of parish life and the liturgical year to introduce seekers to Christ and train them in the Christian way of life; 4. the three levels of catechesis and how to use mystagogical reflection on parish life to provide a systematic and complete catechesis appropriate for each level.

When you make your parish the OCIA curriculum, you will be shaping not just a group of people but an entire community into lifelong disciples.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814644652
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 03/05/2018
Series: Teamrcia
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Diana Macalintal has served as a liturgist, musician, author, speaker, and composer for the last twenty-five years, and her work can be found in Give Us This Day and many other publications. She is the author of The Work of Your Hands: Prayers for Ordinary and Extraordinary Moments of Grace, Joined by the Church, Sealed by a Blessing: Couples and Communities Called to Conversion Together, and Your Parish Is the Curriculum: RCIA in the Midst of the Community (Liturgical Press). Macalintal is a cofounder of Team Initiation with her husband, Nick Wagner.

Table of Contents

Contents
 Introduction   1
   Chapter 1
RCIA Isn’t Just for Catechumens   15
   Chapter 2
Your Team Is Bigger Than You Think   28
   Chapter 3
Five Things Parishioners Do in the RCIA   49
   Chapter 4
The Curriculum for Making Disciples   69
   Chapter 5
Your Parish Life Is the Syllabus   83
   Chapter 6
When Do We Get to the Real Teaching?   96
   Chapter 7
Customized Catechesis   108
Conclusion: What If?   128
Bibliography   132
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