When You Are an RCIA Sponsor: Handing on the Faith

by Rita Senseman

Overview

"In When You Are an RCIA Sponsor Rita Burns Senseman reflects on the responsibility and significance of being chosen to share your faith and personal experience with someone less familiar with the path than you. She explains clearly and briefly the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Her explanation includes a description of the rituals involved in the initiation process as well as a description of the theology of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. She offers suggestions for being a companion and witness on the RCIA journey, for introducing and welcoming the new Catholic into the parish faith community, and for praying and worshiping together. Each chapter provides questions for reflection or discussion, and passages from the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church for prayerful meditation. The author also includes guidance for sponsoring families. "

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780867164497
Publisher:	Liguori Publications
Publication date:	07/01/2001
Series:	Handing on the Faith Series
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	0.70(w) x 0.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Rita Burns Senseman is a catechist who specializes in the Christian initiation of young people. She is a freelance writer who has written numerous articles and books on various aspects of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. She is a team member for the North American Forum on the Catechumenate and former associate director of the Office of Catechetics/Religious Education in the Archdiocese of Detroit. She has also held various parish religious education positions. She holds a master of arts degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame and is a wife and mother of three adolescent daughters.

Editorial Reviews

RITA BURNS SENSEMAN has been involved in initiation ministry for many years. She is a team member for the North American Forum on the
Catechumenate and author of A Child's Journey: The Christian Initiation of Children and When Your Child Becomes Catholic: What Parents and Sponsors Need to Know (St. Anthony Messenger Press).

In When You Are an RCIA Sponsor Rita Burns Senseman reflects on the responsibility and significance of being chosen to share your faith and personal experience with someone less familiar with the path than you. She explains clearly and briefly the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Her explanation includes a description of the rituals involved in the initiation process as well as a description of the theology of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist.

She offers suggestions for being a companion and witness on the RCIA journey, for introducing and welcoming the new Catholic into the parish faith community, and for praying and worshiping together. Each chapter provides questions for reflection or discussion, and passages from the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church for prayerful meditation. The author also includes guidance for sponsoring families.

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