The Way of Faith: A Field Guide to the RCIA

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.

Nick Wagner is an active team member with the North American Forum on the Catechumenate

Introduction
Moving from a Good RCIA to an Excellent Initiation Process	p. 2
Guide to the Catechumenate	p. 5
The Stages of the Catechumenate
Changing the Light Bulbs: A Catholic's Guide to Conversion	p. 10
Stage One: Find a Light that Needs Changing	p. 12
Stage Two: Learning How to Change a Light Bulb	p. 21
Stage Three: Basking in the Light	p. 27
Stage Four: Mystagogy	p. 38
Lifelong Formation	p. 42
The Rites of the Catechumenate
First Class Passage on the Journey of Faith	p. 46
Rite of Acceptance	p. 47
Election or Enrollment of Names	p. 55
Scrutinies	p. 60
Minor Rites	p. 67
Initiation	p. 73
Nuts and Bolts
How to Build Your Team	p. 84
The Itinerary: A Step-by-Step Guide for Starting the RCIA in Your Parish	p. 97
Learning a Foreign Language: Catechesis	p. 106
Strange and Dangerous Rituals: What You Need to Know about Liturgy	p. 117
Keeping it All Straight
Who Will We Meet on the Way?	p. 128
You Have to Be "This High" to Ride: Children and the RCIA	p. 133
Welcoming the Baptized	p. 146
What about Catholics?	p. 155
The Catechumens at Home	p. 157
Prepare to Initiate	p. 161
Glossary	p. 163
Moving to a Year-Round Model	p. 165
Rehearsal Outlines	p. 167
Dismissal and Catechetical Session Outlines	p. 178
Sundays with Appropriate Readings for the Rite of Acceptance	p. 182
Adaptations	p. 187
Annulments	p. 191
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The Way of Faith: A Field Guide to the RCIA Process

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