“Who teaches us to love? Only the Holy Spirit”
Last week, I was slightly curious when the Holy Father lumped together “catechetical courses” with “courses in yoga, Zen and all these things” and said none of these would lead us to true freedom of...
View ArticleHow do you know that what you’re doing is working?
It was a moment of doubt. I was sitting in the pub, waiting for a couple of our RCIA candidates to turn up, flicking through posts in the Forming Intentional Disciples Forum on my phone....
View ArticleWhat God can do…
We’re approaching Easter and so often for the parish year, this means that programmes wind up and catechists take a well-deserved rest. Well, not so in Portsmouth… We have revamped the RCIA process...
View Article“Stand in awe and rejoice, we have become Christ!”: Baptism and Mystagogy
This is a wonderful line about Baptism from St Augustine (from his writings on the Gospel of St John). Today is the anniversary of my own Baptism, so I have been reflecting on it a little....
View ArticleHope in the RCIA
I haven’t written for a while about our RCIA in Portsmouth. You’ll probably remember we started a new process here nearly a year ago (you can read about how we started it here, there’s...
View Article7 Quick Takes on Dorothy Day, poverty, disciple-making, babies and Hillsong
– 1 – So far this summer, I’ve loved being immersed in the ultra-inspiring autobiography of Dorothy Day. It is entitled, somewhat harrowingly, The Long Loneliness. I must admit, I’d always had a notion...
View ArticleFamily: “The most beautiful thing God created”
I have loved watching and following the footage of Pope Francis in the US over the last week, and have been overjoyed to hear of conversions and graces coming from his visit. Such a...
View ArticleYou know you’re an RCIA catechist when…
A surprisingly large number of people in your phone contacts have the surname “RCIA” You wonder if Caffe Nero will start charging you rent for the number of one-to-one chats you have there The lead...
View ArticleRCIA: Don’t stop with just a programme
As you all know, I’ve written tons and tons and tons on RCIA. When you are doing a year-round process with enquiry and Catechumenate running simultaneously, I find that fully responding to the Holy...
View ArticleThe Paradigm Shift and RCIA
For those who have followed this blog for a while, you will know I have reflected endlessly and written a lot on RCIA (just seeing the RCIA tag here freaks me out a little!). When I worked in...
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