{"id":28014,"date":"2012-11-27T20:34:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=28014"},"modified":"2012-11-29T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:53:41","slug":"first-time-teaching-at-rcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/first-time-teaching-at-rcia\/","title":{"rendered":"First Time Teaching at RCIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"drop\">Yesterday I taught my first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rite_of_Christian_Initiation_of_Adults\" target=\"_blank\">RCIA<\/a> class. We meet every Monday evening, and I&#8217;ve been part of the teaching team since September. It&#8217;s so very strange to be on the other side. I only went through RCIA myself in 2004 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">Y<\/span>esterday was my first solo teaching opportunity. My topic? The Liturgical Calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it went well. The rest of the team were fully engaged in the presentation, and the catechumens seemed interested.<\/p>\n<p>I did make one mistake, concerning the end-date of the Christmas season. I&#8217;ll fix that for next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Liturgical-Year-Presentation-handout.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Liturgical Year: Handout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I taught my first RCIA class. We meet every Monday evening, and I&#8217;ve been part of the teaching team since September. It&#8217;s so very strange to be on the other side. I only went through RCIA myself in 2004 and 2005. Yesterday was my first solo teaching opportunity. My topic? The Liturgical Calendar. Overall, it went well. The rest [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocia","category-sacred-liturgy","category-vocation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-7hQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83331,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/tales-of-a-catechist\/","url_meta":{"origin":28014,"position":0},"title":"Tales of a Catechist","author":"Thom","date":"15 October 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We Catholics have done a spectacularly poor job of teaching the faith over the last forty years. 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