RCIA Stuff

Curriculum

1. Get to know them (S1-12-13)
2. Salvation History and the Capacity for God (S2-12-13)
3. Sin and the need for a Savior
4. Revelation of the logos, and the Bible
5. The Creed - I believe in one God, the Father almighty
6. The Creed - and in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord. He was conceived...
7. The Creed - The Holy Spirit
8. Mary
9. Prayer
10. Death and the Last Things
11. Ecclesiology (Church as Sacrament and Communion: Saints, Hierarchy, Religious, People of God)
12. Eccles. (Church as Sanctifier: Sin, Pennance and Reparation)
13. Eccles. (Church as Prophet/Teacher: The Magisterium
14. Eccles. (The Church's regal office: Catholic Social Teaching)
15. Moral Theology (Virtue and the Pursuit of Happiness - Overview of Structure of the X Comm., Conscience)
16. Moral Theo. (The new Law of Grace: The Sermon on the Mount, Rom 12-15)
17. Moral Theo. (Sexual Ethics, Marriage and Family)
18. Mystagogia Sacraments - What is a sacrament? The Church as sacrament
19. " " - Baptism/Confirmation
20. " " - Eucharist
21. " " - Confession / Annointing
22. " " - Marriage / Holy Orders

Other Possible Field Trips/Special Meetings

• Nat. Shrine/Franciscan Monastery
• St. Matthew
• A Religious House
• Nat. Gallery (religious art)
• Extraordinary Form Mass
• Give them an examen in preparation for the Scrutinies (3rd 4th & 5th Sundays of Lent)
• An explanation of the liturgies of Holy Week

Scripture and Readings

• Dismissal Catechesis Epiphany year A

Resources

• The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Mass readings for the day
• Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revalation

• Busted Halo

References

• The Catholic Vision