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[1] Aidan Kavanagh, The Shape of Baptism: The Rite of Christian Initiation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1978), 128, see also 120–22.
[2] See The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (International Commission on English in the Liturgy, 2022), nos. 40, 75.1, 75.3, 79, 141, 147, 247. Hereafter cited as OCIA.
[3] See Congregation for the Clergy, General Directory for Catechesis (Washington, DC: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1998), no. 85. Hereafter cited as GDC.
[4] Kavanagh, Shape of Baptism, 118, 120–21 (italics original).
[5] Johannes Hofinger and Francis J. Buckley, The Good News and Its Proclamation (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968), 56 (italics original).
[6] See OCIA, nos. 38, 75.1, 78, 139, 245.
[7] Second Vatican Council, Christus Dominus, no. 14; Catechesi Tradendae, no. 19. See also Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, General Catechetical Directory (1971), no. 17.
[8] Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum, nos. 8, 10.
[9] See OCIA, nos. 42, 45, 75.2, 75.4, 120, 244, 246.
[10] Kavanagh, Shape of Baptism, 182.
[11] Second Vatican Council, Ad Gentes, no. 14.
[12] GDC, no. 68
[13] GDC, no. 67.
[14] See Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 89.
[15] See Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium, nos. 64–66.
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