At last! A hands-on, comprehensive, enjoyable, and affordable guide to everything you want or need to know about the catechumenate process. This is exactly what team-trainers have been looking for: a resource packed with advice, tips, techniques, and tools to help them start or sustain the catechumenate in their parishes. It includes advice for every aspect of the rite: starting a team running a catechetical session leading a dismissal session finding sponsors discerning if catechumens are ready making adaptations for your parish heading up the children s RCIA celebrating the rites With this field guide in their hands, parish leaders and teams will have the confidence they need to lead the RCIA, teach others how to help with the process, and transforms the hearts of everyone involved. This book offers all the help they need, including rehearsal outlines for the major celebrations, a list of appropriate Sundays for celebrating the Rite of Acceptance, and 100 ideas for involving your most important team member the parish community. This is THE perfect resource for everyone who is responsible for guiding catechumens and candidates on their conversion journey from the pastor to catechists to sponsors and godparents. It will completely transform the way initiation happens in a parish!
Fisher's own scholarship is a sterling example of the value of getting back to the sources. There is no question that liturgy has been vastly improved today because we have had better contact with its sources. We understand from them how and why people prayed at different times in history, which ceremonies carried over, which were abandoned, and perhaps which should have been abandoned but were not. The field of liturgical history has been extremely helpful in our recent revisions of the rites of Christian initiation. Gerard Austin, O'PRice School for Pastoral MinistryThis reissue of J.D.C. Fisher's classic work introduces the reader to primary sources that led the author to the theory of disintegration of the primitive rite of initiation. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.
Much is written about catechesis for Confirmation. For over fifteen years, parish ministers have used Confirmation: A Parish Celebration to guide them through the process of preparing a worthy liturgy to culminate that process. This revised edition contains the same thorough review of the Rite of Confirmation, the same sound liturgical principle and the same good pastoral sense. In addition, it includes insights and wisdom about Confirmation as a sacrament of initiation gained from the many changes our Church has gone through in implementing the catechumenate. Pastors, liturgy directors, directors of religious education, catechists who work with those preparing for Confirmation, and liturgical musicians will find this book invaluable in planning the infrequent but vitally important Confirmation liturgy. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.
This book challenges everyone who prepares the liturgy of infant Baptism to understand it is the action of the community that begets new believers. The author applies the standards of full, conscious, and active participation of the assembly; the word proclaimed and preached; the integration of music and ritual; and the abundant use of symbols, gestures, and movements to the Rite of Baptism of Children. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.
