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particular, offer rich opportunities for all the baptized to remember our own initiation into the Church. On an ongoing basis, the weekly celebration of the Eucharist throughout the liturgical year inspires and equips us to live the Resurrection and commit ourselves anew to our baptismal call to holiness.


Te journey continues—for the newly baptized, and for the entire Christian community. A vibrant parish embraces the challenges and joys of this journey through participation in all aspects of parish life, from study and prayer to social justice issues and service to others.


Te aim of this model is the incorporation of the newly baptized into an energized parish community that reflects the light of Christ to the world. For the entire baptized Body of Christ, this ongoing practice of mystagogy—of learning to savor ever more deeply the Mystery of Christ—should last a lifetime.


1 Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Study Edition (Liturgy


Training Publications: Chicago, IL, 1988), no. 244. 2


Patrick Cronin, Encountering the Mystery of God: A


Framework for Mystagogy from Easter to Pentecost (Morning Star Publishing: Alma, MI, 2016), 171. 3


RCIA, no. 244.


4 Ibid., Appendix III, no. 24. 5 Cronin, 89. 6 Ibid., 91.


7 Gilbert Ostdiek, Mystagogy of the Eucharist: A Resource for Faith Formation (Liturgical Press: Collegeville, MN, 2015).


8 RCIA, no. 75. 9


David Regan, “A Lost Opportunity: Mystagogy in the


RCIA,” in Traditions of Spiritual Guidance, ed. Lavinia Byrne (Liturgical Press: Collegeville, MN, 1991), 237.


10 Ibid. 11 Cronin, 162.


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