Your Roadmap To A Conversion Centered Catechumenate

Author : John McGlynn
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814667415

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Your Roadmap to a Conversion-Centered Catechumenate by John McGlynn Pdf

Change can be hard. As human beings we are, by nature, resistant to change, especially when we think what we have right now is just fine as it is. But God is not static. Our relationship with God is dynamic, living, breathing, and constantly evolving. How do you bring that dynamism to your initiation process? How do you transform your current catechumenate from a one-size-fits-all program to an apprenticeship process customized for each seeker? John McGlynn is here to tell you that it’s not as hard as you might think. In this “report from the trenches” the author shows how his parish team was able to transform their process from a traditional academic model to true training in Christian life, focused on the goals of the individual seeker. Through the author’s real-world experience readers will discover how to develop their own roadmap to transform and renew their parish initiation processes.

Author : John McGlynn
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814667422

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Your Roadmap to a Conversion-Centered Catechumenate by John McGlynn Pdf

2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Ministry – Catechetical Change can be hard. As human beings we are, by nature, resistant to change, especially when we think what we have right now is just fine as it is. But God is not static. Our relationship with God is dynamic, living, breathing, and constantly evolving. How do you bring that dynamism to your initiation process? How do you transform your current catechumenate from a one-size-fits-all program to an apprenticeship process customized for each seeker? John McGlynn is here to tell you that it’s not as hard as you might think. In this “report from the trenches” the author shows how his parish team was able to transform their process from a traditional academic model to true training in Christian life, focused on the goals of the individual seeker. Through the author’s real-world experience readers will discover how to develop their own roadmap to transform and renew their parish initiation processes.

Author : Bishop Robert Barron
Publisher : Word on Fire Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1943243565

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Centered by Bishop Robert Barron Pdf

" ... a foundational tool for both the Word on Fire Institute and the broader Word on Fire movement. Its purpose is to help evangelists better understand the spiritual and theological ethos of Word on Fire. The contents of this book are aligned with the Eight Principles of Word on Fire." --

Author : Allen Vigneron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692941282

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Unleash the Gospel by Allen Vigneron Pdf

Author : Nick Wagner
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814644898

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Field Hospital Catechesis by Nick Wagner Pdf

If, as Pope Francis says, the church is a field hospital, then what does it mean to care for the wounded and heal the wounds? What would we do first? Indeed, God sends all of us—especially catechists and teachers—to heal the world. And the first thing we have to do is this: proclaim that Jesus Christ saves us. This first proclamation heals the wounds of unbelievers, seekers, and believers alike. Field Hospital Catechesis: The Core Content for RCIA Formation explores the nine core teachings of the church that make up this first proclamation. Readers will become catechists and evangelists equipped to bring healing to those around them by learning: how to shift from making name-only-Catholics to making Catholic-disciples; the first thing we have to say to seekers; a thoroughly Catholic understanding of evangelization; how what we teach and the way we teach heals the suffering of the world and the wounds of the seekers; Pope Francis’s solution to what he sees as an urgent crisis in the world; the true vocation of a catechist and how to live it out; why only nine core teachings of the church should be the consistent focus of our catechesis; how the nine core teachings of the church tell the great story of our salvation. This book will radically change the way you think about RCIA formation and the task of evangelization.

Author : Benjamin Storey,Jenna Silber Storey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691211121

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Why We Are Restless by Benjamin Storey,Jenna Silber Storey Pdf

"No one seems to be happy with the present. That loathing of the present is understandable. The present moment, in modern life, is hard to love, or even to grasp. For the modern present is a state of constant motion. Perpetual moral, social, and psychic revolution is the price we pay for our unprecedented liberty, equality, and prosperity. Though we rightly prize those great political goods, having our world turned upside down every morning makes us all of us uneasy and some of us miserable. We exacerbate our unease by our failure to recognize it. With our ritual insistence that we are perfectly content to "go with the flow," we deny even the existence of our disquiet. We refuse to see what time it is, and we refuse to see ourselves"--

Author : Andrew Stephen Damick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 1944967176

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Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Andrew Stephen Damick Pdf

This new edition of the bestselling Orthodoxy & Heterodoxy is fully revised and significantly expanded. Major new features include a full chapter on Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movements, an expanded epilogue, and a new appendix ("How and Why I Became an Orthodox Christian"). More detail and more religions and movements have been included, and the book is now addressed broadly to both Orthodox and non-Orthodox, making it even more sharable than before.

Author : Mark Vessey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118255438

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A Companion to Augustine by Mark Vessey Pdf

A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right. Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field

Author : Nick Wagner
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814645406

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Seek the Living God by Nick Wagner Pdf

We all know that a one-size-fits-all approach to RCIA catechumenate formation doesn’t work. But until now, many of us were stumped trying to find a viable alternative. Seek the Living God: Five RCIA Inquiry Questions for Making Disciples is the answer to your prayers. After just a few meetings with your seekers, you will be able to easily create a customized faith formation plan that is tailored to the unique needs of each person. The best part is that the seekers do most of the work in developing their own plan. Your role shifts from being the Catholic “expert” to being a mentor and coach. Once you understand how the five-question process works, you can easily train others to use it. New team members don’t have to worry about “knowing enough” to be on the team. Start using these questions with your very next RCIA seeker. You will be amazed at the powerful conversion that will happen with your inquirers—and with you.

Author : Lawrence S. Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139478230

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An Introduction to Catholicism by Lawrence S. Cunningham Pdf

The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe, and how do they put their beliefs into practice in worship, the family, and society? This down-to-earth account goes back to the early Christian creeds to uncover the roots of modern Catholic thinking. It avoids getting bogged down in theological technicalities, and throws light on aspects of the Church's institutional structure and liturgical practice that even Catholics can find baffling: why go to confession? How are people made saints? What is 'infallible' about the Pope? Topics addressed include: • scripture and tradition • sacraments and prayer • popular piety • personal and social morality • reform, mission, and interreligious dialogue Lawrence Cunningham, a theologian, prize-winning writer and university teacher, provides an overview of Catholicism today which will be indispensable for undergraduates and lay study groups.

Author : Mariette Martineau,Joan Weber,Leif Kehrwald
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585956538

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Intergenerational Faith Formation by Mariette Martineau,Joan Weber,Leif Kehrwald Pdf

Here the authors convincingly show that intergenerational faith formation, when done well, can be powerful, dramatic, even magical. Not only is there a place for intergenerational learning in parish faith formation, the authors believe there is a necessity for it. They show that intergenerational faith formation can help children, adolescents, and adults effectively identify with and integrate into the faith community because their learning and formation takes place in the context of communityall ages learning together. People will be looking for this one.

Author : Caroline Farey,Waltraud Linnig,M. Johanna Paruch
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Catechetics
ISBN : 1931018723

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The Pedagogy of God by Caroline Farey,Waltraud Linnig,M. Johanna Paruch Pdf

The "pedagogy of God" lies at the heart of the restoration currently advancing in the area of religious education and catechesis. According to the General Directory for Catechesis, the primary difficulty facing catechesis today is that catechists do not yet have a full understanding of "the conception of catechesis as a school of faith, an initiation and apprenticeship in the entire Christian life."

Author : Timothy P. O'Malley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814663615

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Divine Blessing by Timothy P. O'Malley Pdf

RCIA teams often struggle with getting catechumens and candidates to participate regularly in the church's liturgy. Those who do often feel bored or confused, or they see it as a nice tradition or an inconvenient obligation rather than the heart of our Catholic faith. So we fill the gap with more catechesis that explains the liturgy to seekers, and we pray they will have a better personal experience on Sunday. Yet neither causes them to love the liturgy as we do. In Divine Blessing: Liturgical Formation in the RCIA, Timothy P. O'Malley shows us how we can break out of a classroom model about liturgy and instead invite seekers to be formed by the Risen Christ through the liturgy. This book will give you a process for preparing your catechumens and candidates to learn the liturgy's symbolic language of self-giving love that will sustain them with divine blessing and train them to be Christ's disciples in the world.

Author : Lisa Cressman
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814645383

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Backstory Preaching by Lisa Cressman Pdf

Instead of being a dour task on the checklist, what if the process of homily prep renewed you? Instead of feeling insecure about your message, what if your skills made you confident to preach a consistently clear message of Good News, authentic to you, relevant to your listeners, holding their attention and inviting transformation? Backstory Preaching: Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft shows you how. By integrating your life and spirituality with the practical skills necessary for effective preaching, you can move beyond the boredom, stress, or insecurity of preaching so it is no longer you who preach but Christ who preaches in you. By connecting with God in the midst of your sermon prep, the Gospel will be spread deeper and further. God’s joy—and yours—will be made complete.

Author : Leisa Anslinger
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814644409

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A Vision for Conversion by Leisa Anslinger Pdf

You said yes to coordinating the RCIA in your parish. You knew it was going to be a big commitment and require a lot of your time. But it turned out to be much bigger and more complex than you ever imagined. The more you learned about those asking to become Catholic, the more you realized that “the way we’ve always done it” just isn’t going to work anymore if you want to form lifelong disciples. Something has to change. Leisa Anslinger, a veteran of RCIA leadership and parish planning, knows how to help communities develop a vision, navigate change, and bring out the best in their leaders and parishioners. In A Vision for Conversion: Eight Steps to Radically Change Your RCIA Process, Leisa walks you through the eight most effective ways to move your parish RCIA process from maintenance-mode into a true conversion journey that inspires seekers to lifelong discipleship. Whether you’re an RCIA veteran or just getting started, this book will be your companion and guide as you plan for the change your parish needs to initiate seekers into Christ.