Your Parish Is the Curriculum-RCIA in the Midst of the Community English complementary rites

complementary rites

We believe it offers a deep understanding of the rites for both those long familiar with this process and those fairly new to it

and directors of religious education as they prepare children and their families to undertake their journeys of faith

Thirty-four seasonal outlines and twenty-four monthly outlines with practical ways catechumens can serve their parish and local communities

For this reason

Your Parish Is the Curriculum-RCIA in the Midst of the Community English complementary ritesWe all agree that the community needs to be involved in the RCIA. So we make bulletin and Mass announcements explaining the rites and the RCIA 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