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cassman
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What is the best one source for use in teaching a RCIA class?
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Mperea75
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The best source for RCIA teaching book that I have used are the beggining appologetics books from Catholic.com they are extremely helpful in answering those difficult questions in the RCIA Class. Also the Navarre bible commentaries are a very good source commentaries and of course the Catechism is a excellent choice.
The best source for RCIA teaching book that I have used are the beggining appologetics books from Catholic.com they are extremely helpful in answering those difficult questions in the RCIA Class. Also the Navarre bible commentaries are a very good source commentaries and of course the Catechism is a excellent choice.
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Joe_Kelley
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I insist that each participant have a Catechism and a Bible. I give reading assignments from each each week.
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Br.Rich_SFO
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Everything taught in RCIA must be rooted in the Catechsim. Next to the Catechism I like the “Handbook for Todays Catholic” by Liguori Press
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puzzleannie
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there are several other threads on this topic, try Sacraments and Liturgy. The catechism is the basic source, but good guides for using the catechism are published by Liguori, which has a wide range of RCIA materials, get their catalog, and Our Sunday Visitor.
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jaralenio
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I agree with Brother Rich, the catechism is to be used for teaching what the Church teaches along with an acceptable translation of the Holy Bible.
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Scott_Waddell
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This may sound strange, but let me recommend this high school textbook: Introduction to Catholicism
It’s firmly rooted with copious Catechism quotes, it was put together with the help of Scott Hahn, has great art, and covers just about everything for people being confirmed. I think it could easily be adapted for RCIA.
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It’s firmly rooted with copious Catechism quotes, it was put together with the help of Scott Hahn, has great art, and covers just about everything for people being confirmed. I think it could easily be adapted for RCIA.
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IPTgrad
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I suggest several things:
- Study the RCIA itself (there is a book that has all the rites plus additional info to help guide you.) Understand the stages & goals of each step on this journey. Pay close attention to RCIA #75 which will help you place the catechesis into a total plan.
- Visit this website: acmrcia.org/
- Use Scripture & the Catechism to base your lessons. We have set up modules throughout the year & coordinated them with the readings from the lectionary. Conversion of heart should always be central to the lessons, in addition to solid, honest catechesis.
- We also like using *The Teaching of Christ *by Bishop Wuerl & colleagues to base some lessons. It is very complete & very Christ-centered.
- If you just need to get started in a hurry, Ligouri Press has some leaflet-type materials that can be used (we use them during Lent.) They are, in my opinion, pretty good, although I think adapting the Catechism to your own needs is actually more complete & adaptive to your particular group & needs.
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jmm08
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I’m in RCIA this year.
When I took difficult math classes in Graduate School, I “cheated” as follows. I would try to find another textbook on the subject in addition to the textbook the math professor had chosen for the class. Often this would be a math textbook from “Schaum’s Outlines” book series. This way, if I couldn’t understand the professor’s chosen textbook, I could look up the same topic in the other textbook and usually understand it. And Schaum’s Outlines would also have example problems with example solutions. I kept my secret source of wisdom to myself, because so many classes were graded on a curve.
Yes, the Catechism of the Catholic Church is important. What it says about sacramentals is especially important to us in RCIA, because they draw us to Christ in the Eucharist. So please, if you have a Priest or Deacon teaching your RCIA class, have him give his blessing at the start of his talk. And again at the end of his talk. Blessings are so important to us in RCIA; blessings are the most powerful sacramental.
My inquiring phase began in earnest late in June this year when I started reading Fulton Sheen’s “Life is Worth Living”. I also read his autobiography “Treasure in Clay”.
I think the following “talks” were intended by Fulton Sheen to be much like an RCIA curriculum. However, those who are already Catholic are likely to benefit from them as well.
bishop-sheen.org/Talks.html
I am going to my parish RCIA classes and they are very good. But I am also going to “cheat”. I plan to listen to all of Fulton Sheen’s “talks” before very long. I am using Fulton Sheen’s talks as my own secret textbook, to help me to better understand the RCIA class. In RCIA class (unlike my graduate school math classes), it is to my advantage to give others any secret to getting better grades.
At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, October 2, 1979, Pope John-Paul II embraced Archbishop Sheen and said, “You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus. You are a loyal son of the Church.”
I suppose that Fulton Sheen is already a Saint and that he will be canonized someday. I would not be surprised if Fulton Sheen becomes a Doctor of the Church (but not an Agrege of the Church – a bit of an inside joke).
Fulton Sheen’s syllabus is as follows:
When I took difficult math classes in Graduate School, I “cheated” as follows. I would try to find another textbook on the subject in addition to the textbook the math professor had chosen for the class. Often this would be a math textbook from “Schaum’s Outlines” book series. This way, if I couldn’t understand the professor’s chosen textbook, I could look up the same topic in the other textbook and usually understand it. And Schaum’s Outlines would also have example problems with example solutions. I kept my secret source of wisdom to myself, because so many classes were graded on a curve.
Yes, the Catechism of the Catholic Church is important. What it says about sacramentals is especially important to us in RCIA, because they draw us to Christ in the Eucharist. So please, if you have a Priest or Deacon teaching your RCIA class, have him give his blessing at the start of his talk. And again at the end of his talk. Blessings are so important to us in RCIA; blessings are the most powerful sacramental.
My inquiring phase began in earnest late in June this year when I started reading Fulton Sheen’s “Life is Worth Living”. I also read his autobiography “Treasure in Clay”.
I think the following “talks” were intended by Fulton Sheen to be much like an RCIA curriculum. However, those who are already Catholic are likely to benefit from them as well.
bishop-sheen.org/Talks.html
I am going to my parish RCIA classes and they are very good. But I am also going to “cheat”. I plan to listen to all of Fulton Sheen’s “talks” before very long. I am using Fulton Sheen’s talks as my own secret textbook, to help me to better understand the RCIA class. In RCIA class (unlike my graduate school math classes), it is to my advantage to give others any secret to getting better grades.
At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, October 2, 1979, Pope John-Paul II embraced Archbishop Sheen and said, “You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus. You are a loyal son of the Church.”
I suppose that Fulton Sheen is already a Saint and that he will be canonized someday. I would not be surprised if Fulton Sheen becomes a Doctor of the Church (but not an Agrege of the Church – a bit of an inside joke).
Fulton Sheen’s syllabus is as follows:
*]The Philosophy of Life
*]Conscience
*]Good and Evil
*]The Divine Invasion
*]Line up the Claimants
*]Revealed Truth
*]Miracles
*]New Testament Revelation
*]Divinity of Christ
*]Humanity of Christ
*]The Blessed Trinity
*]The Mother of Jesus
*]Christ in the Creed-Birth
*]Sufferings Death and Resurrection
*]Ascension
*]Holy Spirit
*]Church-Body of Christ
*]Peter-Vicar of Christ
*]Authority and Infallibility
*]Communism and the Church
*]Original Sin and Angels
*]Original Sin and Mankind
*]Effects of Original Sin
*]Santifying Grace
*]Grace and the Sacraments
*]Baptism
*]Confirmation
*]Holy Eucharist
*]The Eucharistic Sacrifice
*]The Mass
*]Sin
*]Sin and Penance
*]Penance
*]Sacrament of the Sick
*]Holy Orders
*]The Sacrament of Marriage
*]Sex is a Mystery
*]Birth Prevention
*]The Four Tensions of Love
*]Marriage Problems
*]Commandments I-III
*]Commandments IV-X
*]The Law of Love
*]Death and Judgment
*]Purgatory
*]Heaven is Not so Far Away
*]The Hell There Is
*]Womanhood in Religion
*]Prayer is a Dialogue
*]World Soul and Things
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