RCIA SPIRITUALITY Formation for the Catechumenate Team Barbara Hixon with reflection questions by Gael Gensler Paper, $23.95 192 pages, 5½" × 8½" ISBN 0-89390-399-X View Table of Contents Quantity:

The catechumenal process is not something you do to someone else <197> it is something that happens to you, the team member, as much as to the catechumen. Hixon takes you deep into the spirituality of the Christian initiation process and shows you how each step from pre-catechumenate to mystagogia will change your life. Gail Gensler's questions make this book a useful group formation tool for the catechumenate team.

“Like the RCIA itself, this book is dangerous, scary, risky, an invitation to mayhem and mystery. Don’t read it if you want to keep adult initiation and conversion something you do to others and not what God does to you.”
— The Rev. James B. Dunning, former president, North American Forum on the Catechumenate

“The book displays both a robust theology and a delicate wisdom. ... The examples are genuine. It is a marvelous work, and I wholeheartedly endorse it.”
— Fr. James Lopresti, executive director, North American Forum on the Catechumenate

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: The Precatechumenal Mentality

Focal Issues: Inquiry and evangelism

What Is the Precatechumenal Mentality?

The Jesus Approach

The Rite Application

The Rite Mentality

Part Two: The Catechumenal Mentality

Focal Issues: Journey and conversion

What Is the Catechumenal Mentality?

The Jesus Approach

The Rite Application

The Rite Mentality

Part Three: Purification and Enlightenment

Focal Issues: Sin and salvation

What Are Purification and Enlightenment?

The Jesus Approach

The Rite Application

The Rite Mentality

Part Four: Sacraments of Initiation — The Baptismal Mentality

Focal Issues: Death and resurrection

What Is the Baptismal Mentality?

Part Five: The Mystagogical Mentality

Focal Issues: Sacrament and mission

What Is the Mystagogical Mentality?

The Jesus Approach

The Rite Application

The Rite Mentality

Works Cited