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gelsbern
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It seems that there are soooo many threads trying to point out faults in so many things. I thought it might be a nice breath of fresh air to hear what’s going right out there?
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Figment713
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Well, I, for one, am LOVING my RCIA experience!
We’ve joined with a neighboring parish for the classes. This means there are four priests and a deacon available to share the instructional duties. (While there is present every evening a “team” comprised of members of each parish, they’ve never spoken…Mostly they sit at their own table and gossip with one another.)
It’s interesting to see the different instructional styles. (It’s even more interesting to me to see how I, and the others in the class for that matter, respond to the different instructional styles).
I will, of course, be very glad when Easter comes with all the attendant hoopla (for me: baptism, confirmation and Eucharist). In another way, however, I will desparately miss the classes. (I know. I know. It’s a lifetime of learning…simply something for which I must be responsible on my own. I’ll miss the class and all that I have learned there.)
We’ve joined with a neighboring parish for the classes. This means there are four priests and a deacon available to share the instructional duties. (While there is present every evening a “team” comprised of members of each parish, they’ve never spoken…Mostly they sit at their own table and gossip with one another.)
It’s interesting to see the different instructional styles. (It’s even more interesting to me to see how I, and the others in the class for that matter, respond to the different instructional styles).
I will, of course, be very glad when Easter comes with all the attendant hoopla (for me: baptism, confirmation and Eucharist). In another way, however, I will desparately miss the classes. (I know. I know. It’s a lifetime of learning…simply something for which I must be responsible on my own. I’ll miss the class and all that I have learned there.)
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puzzleannie
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after struggling for 4 years to find help with RCIA in this parish, and not even being able to recruit sponsors, a new parishioner with many years RCIA experience in his former diocese, in both English and Spanish, came up to me after Mass to volunteer, and has now taken over the adult classes, and I finally feel like we are “doing the rites right”. What a blessing, and one of those examples with the Holy Spirit answering my prayers in His usual dramatic fashion.
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Br.Rich_SFO
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Well then you need to start making plans that after the year of Mystogogy is over the group will continue meeting. Either at one of the churchs or in someones home for fellowship and continued learning at least once a month.
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JDHallKY
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I was just received into the Church and enjoyed the RCIA meetings very much. There were a couple of people on the team that were a little liberal for my taste, but other than a couple of occasions, nothing was said that contradicted Church teaching. And, on the couple of occasions when something was said, it was corrected.
The leader of the team is especially good at planning and leading the discussions, and is very faithful to Church teaching, especially when discussing the sacraments. She very eloquently explained to us how much of a benefit the Sacrament of Reconciliation can be to our spiritual growth, even if we aren’t conscious of mortal sin, and encouraged us to go to Confession at least once every 4-6 weeks.
The leader of the team is especially good at planning and leading the discussions, and is very faithful to Church teaching, especially when discussing the sacraments. She very eloquently explained to us how much of a benefit the Sacrament of Reconciliation can be to our spiritual growth, even if we aren’t conscious of mortal sin, and encouraged us to go to Confession at least once every 4-6 weeks.
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