Category: Initiation / RCIA
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Martin Luther on Baptism and Repentance
“Repentance, therefore, is nothing else than a return and approach to baptism.”
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Martin Luther on Immersion Baptism
We should therefore do justice to its significance and make baptism a true and complete sign…
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Baptism and (In)dignity
Baptism is terribly undignified. And that’s a good thing.
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Are you willing to help?
All in attendance have a stake in the past, present, and future of God’s history with those to whom the church directs its sacramental ministry.
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How many hands does it take…?
This year’s Easter Vigil was a real logistical ordeal for presiders.
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Slippery Hands
Why do we anoint the hands of catechumens?
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A
That fact that such a quick fix approach is rampant among preachers and bloggers. Is evident to me in the number of them who suggested preaching on the text “Amazing Grace” with its “once I was lost, but now I’m found, was blind but now I see.” Is it really that simple? And if not,…
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Non Solum: Clothing and the Catechumenate
In the RCIA, there is an optional clothing of the newly baptized at the Easter Vigil with a (most often) white robe to symbolize their new baptismal purity.
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LTP to sponsor conference on Christian Initiation
The 2017 theme for the National Gathering on Christian Initiation™ is Disciples Making Disciples.