The Compendium and the RCIA
The Compendium is Christ-centred and can be used in RCIA to draw people into communion with Christ and his Church.
This article explores the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church in relation to the Christian initiation of adults. Emphasis will be placed on the initial period of the RCIA and the on many useful ways in which the Compendium can be at the service of drawing persons to Christ and the Church.
RCIA: A New Faith to Live —Conversion in Mystagogy, the Neophyte Year, and Beyond
The previous article to this series (Conversion in Purification and Enlightenment: A New Cross Embraced, April-June 2007 issue), included the following comment: ‘The sacraments of initiation are the climax, but not the end, of the process of conversion….The grandeur and exhilaration of the Easter Vigil…should be the beginning of a Catholic life of growing intimacy with God and self-gift to others that becomes ever more complete — a life, in short, of greater and greater holiness.’ Mr. Keimig explains this in more depth here.
