Feeling alone in your catechumenal ministry? Journey to Baptismal Living provides you with resources and personal connection. Below is the latest in a series of monthly blog posts, written by practitioners, addressing the challenges of this ministry in many different contexts. After each month’s post, if you would like to pursue any portion further, just email a request to [email protected], … Read More
FREE Community Chat: Post-Easter Living Into Baptism – Mystagogy and Vocation
The next JBL Community Chat: Easter: Living Into Our Baptism Monday, April 17th at 7pm CT So Easter has come, and the baptismal candidates have been baptized, and the re-affirmers have renewed their baptismal covenant. What do we do now? How do we accompany them as they begin to live out that covenant? How do we help them discern … Read More
Free Community Chat: Lenten Rites – Spiritual Transformation in Johannine Conversion Stories
Monday, February 6, 2023 7:00pm CT Join us to explore a promising avenue of prayer to help catechumens deepen their relationship with Jesus this Lent. You are invited to experience the transformational power of John’s conversion stories through a form of lectio divina that is augmented by the imaginative prayer of the Jesuits. Effectively engage catechumens in these narratives, … Read More
ADAPTATION OF THE CATECHUMENAL PROCESS: O Canada, Eh? An Honest Recounting of Strengths and Areas of Need
In an affluent Anglican Church in Ottawa. Avg Sunday attendance 150. Background What four characteristics best describe your church community, especially what makes you unique? Community has a long choral tradition, boys’ choir, adult choir in a wealthy area of Ottawa. A strong bureaucratic, educated, sophisticated community What is the biggest challenge facing your community? Very few children, little … Read More
ADAPTATION OF THE CATECHUMENAL PROCESS: Meeting People Where They Are in THE JOURNEY of a Midwestern Presbyterian Congregation
JBL CASE STUDY FOR ADAPTATION OF THE CATECHUMENAL PROCESS IN (Presbyterian, suburban St. Louis, 245.) But wait…before you dive in, remember, if you have any questions or would like to pursue anything you read here in more depth, please email us at [email protected] Background What four characteristics best describe your church community, especially what makes you unique? Primarily a white … Read More
ADAPTATION OF THE CATECHUMENAL PROCESS: Learning from a Congregation with a Process in Place
Feeling alone in your catechumenal ministry? Journey to Baptismal Living is working to help you feel connected. We are starting a series of monthly blog posts, written by practitioners, which address the challenges of this ministry in many different contexts. After each month’s post, if you would like to pursue any portion further, just email a request to [email protected], and … Read More
Community Chat: AN ON-LINE CATECHUMENATE–HOW?
ZOOM CHAT: JULY 7; 7:00 CT Even before the coronavirus pandemic, some congregations were envisioning alternative ways of implementing the Catechumenate into their context, especially where weekly in-person gatherings would not be feasible. The pandemic made this transition even more pertinent, and the changes that have resulted provide a new model for catechumenal ministry today. Some congregations have returned … Read More
Free Community Chat: THE AFFIRMATION OF VOCATION
The next JBL Community Chat: The Affirmation of Vocation Thursday, May 19 at 7pm CT “You have no idea what will happen when you say ‘Yes!’” Bishop Megan Traquier declared during her Easter Vigil sermon. The Fifty Days of Easter are a time to begin exploring the possibilities of that “Yes!” The rite of Affirmation of Vocation celebrates the … Read More
LIVING INTO YOUR BAPTISM –WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE VIGIL?
Being baptized into Christ is not like graduation. It is not the end of a process. In many ways it is more like marriage, since it is the beginning of a lifelong process that only gradually unfolds. Exploring the existential meaning of the professed baptismal covenant may be seen as like those moments in a marriage when you both want … Read More
FREE COMMUNITY CHAT–Mystagogy
The next JBL Community Chat: “Easter: Living Into Our Baptism” Tuesday, March 15th at 7pm CT. So Easter has come, and the baptismal candidates have been baptized, and the reaffirmers have renewed their baptismal covenant. What do we do now? How do we accompany them as they begin to live out that covenant? How do we help them discern what … Read More
