Category: Initiation / RCIA
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Brief Book Review: Journal for the Elect & Neophytes
DANIELLA ZSUPAN-JEROME — This journal offers an opportunity for those newly experiencing this season through adult faith formation to approach the liturgies therein with great intention.
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
EDITOR — Rita Ferrone outlines the significance of the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (the RCIA), and how it has a ripple effect that goes beyond the catechumens in the parish.
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San Francisco Baptisms
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — Number 1239 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that “Baptism is performed in the most expressive way by triple immersion in the baptismal water.”
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Baptized in the Ecclesial Faith
A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?
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Brief Book Review: Rethinking Catholic Devotions
“The author offers the beginning reader a helpful vision for situating Catholic devotional practice in the Christian life, without falling into superstition and problematic practices that eclipse the redemptive power of the paschal mystery.”
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Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism
Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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Brief Book Review: Turn to the Lord
“DeLorenzo asks us to take sacramental preparation out of the classroom and into more intimate and personal faith formation groups.”
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Chrism Mass Conundrum, or, Order of Oils
Some oddities in the way things unfold in this rite….
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There Are Good Reasons to Support the RCIA – A response to an essay at NCR
The Church today asks us to conduct ourselves in a particular way in Christian initiation because the way we initiate is a fundamental expression of who we are.