RCIA for the First Sunday of Advent – Catholic Doctrine

So Jesus was born in a stable over 2000 years ago in Bethlehem to a poor carpenter and his wife. He entered the world very humbly. But Jesus will return in glory! This is what we celebrate in the readings this week at Mass. You will notice though that throughout every Mass we are looking [...]

RCIA for the First Sunday of Advent – the Readings

Today’s liturgy invites us to become a church of expectancy and hope. We are looking to the future; we are anticipating the coming of the Lord at the end of time.
The Catholic Church has a three year cycle that takes us through most of the Bible in the readings at Mass. Today we begin the [...]

The Catholic Catechism

The current Catechism of the Catholic Church was published in 1994 and revised in 2000. On the 20th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council in 1985, Pope John Paul II called together an extraordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops. It was at this assembly that the need for a new catechism was discussed, and the [...]

Shouldn’t there be more than this?

I was a catechist for today’s mass, this time for the children, but neither showed up today for various reasons. So I sat in the adult session. It went well, the other catechist handled the session well for both the readings and the Feast of All Saints.
Towards the end the RCIA director came in to [...]

Catechesis on the Priesthood – Part 2

Well, I have my second Breaking Open the Word session under my belt. I prepared three pages for discussion and it didn’t seem like enough at first, but in the end it turned out to be just right.
Like I said in my last post, a lot of the content came directly from the catechist guidelines, [...]

Catechesis on the Priesthood

This Sunday I will be leading the Breaking Open the Word again for our RCIA participants. The guideline that I have says to focus the discussion on the priesthood, both the ministerial priesthood and the common priesthood. This entails a lot of prep work, for me at least.
So I have read through the Letter to [...]

RCIA Catechist

I signed up to be an RCIA catechist last year at my parish, but we didn’t have any catechumens. And so the year passed. In the summer the director had a few of us attend some RCIA formation classes down at the seminary. They were very informative even though they were intended for experienced catechists.
This [...]

Robert Novak, R.I.P.

My friend and mentor, Robert Novak is gone at the age of 78 and I am deeply saddened. After a valiant struggle, Bob lost his battle with brain cancer earlier today.
Washington and all of America should be mourning– for Bob Novak was the last of a breed of journalists that we shall not see again. [...]

Review of Fr. Corapi’s Buffalo Conference – Part 2

The conference was 10 hours. It was a long day in the HSBC Arena, but it was a good day. The standard  agenda was an hour talk with a 45 minute break. Fr. Corapi was on fire with the Holy Spirit. An overview of his four sermons can be found in this post. While he [...]

Going to See Fr. Corapi :-D

Yes, I am!! I’ll give you all a full report when I get back. God Bless Fr. Corapi!!

Links for conference are here.