names

[badsede]

Tomorrow night I teach my first session of RCIA at this parish, so I am preparing my outline for the night.

One of the items in the outline:

- get people’s names, promptly forget

I like to set realistic, achievable goals. ;)

Comments

[prester_scott]

Ha! My BCP class would have gone the same way except that I sent around a sign-up sheet. :)

[badsede]

I'm thinking of making them wear nametags. ;)

Every time they have those "Hello, my name is..." name tags, I have to seriously resist writing in "Luka" .. I don't always succeed.

[prester_scott]

Now you are tempting me to waste my precious time writing a filk about the "upper room" and Acts chapter 2.

[chippa]

What does RCIA stand for?

[badsede]

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults.

It's a modern conception of the process of initiation in the early Church. It's a program of catechesis and rituals of preparation before being welcomed into the Church, usually at Easter. Non-Christians are called catechumens and receive all three sacraments of initation: Baptism, Communion and Confirmation (Chrismation). Christians entering the Catholic Church are called Candidates and recieve Communion and Confirmation .. typically.

[chippa]

Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation.