Diocesan RCIA Team
The Diocesan RCIA team is made up of volunteers from parishes around the Diocese. Our aim is to promote and support RCIA teams working in parishes and schools throughout Nottingham Diocese.
Our Mission Statement
To inspire ourselves and others to become adult Christians through:
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challenging our own RCIA practice
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challenging the Diocesan practice
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Growth and listening to new ideas
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seeking God's discernment
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post RCIA development
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working as catalysts in the Nottingham Diocese
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identifying and promoting good practice in RCIA
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discernment, listening and dialogue
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Getting Started
If you are new to RCIA and just getting started in your parish and are looking for help with resources, please contact us at The Diocesan Centre. Team members are available to support existing and new RCIA groups throughout the Diocese.
Team members
Diocesan Education Service Members
Paula Bailey The Diocesan Centre 01332 253832
Kenneth O’Riordan The Diocesan Centre 01332 253833
Janet Hornsby The Diocesan Centre 01332 292833 Extn 820
Diocesan RCIA Team:
Lesley Bayfield Derbyshire 01629 55273
Kathleen Elliott Derbyshire 01332 348921
Chris Jones Derbyshire 01332 672094
Sheila Popplewell Lincolnshire 01472 251107
Elaine Prior Nottinghamshire 01332 872195
Fr Christopher Thomas Nottingham 0115 9212964
Jackie Williams Leicester 0116 2100102
2008 Year A
“Give as a gift receive as a gift”
2007 Year C “Live Simply”
Based upon the CAFOD theme and logo
2006 Year B
Tree of Life – Rosy Towsend
Rite of Election 2009
Watch here for preparation materials for the Rite of Election
Rite of Election Notes
The Scrutinies
3rd Sunday of Lent - Woman at the Well Scrutinity
4th Sunday of Lent - Man Born Blind Scrutinity
5th Sunday of Lent - Lazurus Scrutinity
Archive for Year A - Lent 2008
Rite of Election Scripture - Year A
Archive for Year B - Lent 2006
Rite of Election Scripture - Year B
Archive for Year C - Lent 2007
Rite of Election Scripture - Year C
Rite of Election Scripture - Year A
First Reading Genesis 2:7-9.3:1-7
The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being.
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. The Lord God caused to spring up from the soil every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden.
The serpent was the most subtle of all the wild beasts that the Lord God had made. It asked the woman, “Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden.” God said, “You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death.” Then the serpent said to the woman, “No! You will not die! God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was desirable for the knowledge that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.
Second Reading A letter of St Paul to the Romans 5:12-19
Sin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned. Sin existed in the world long beforee the Law was given. there was no law and so no one could be accused of the sin of ‘law-breaking’, yet death reigned over all from Adam to Moses, even though their sin, unlike that of Adam, was not a matter of breaking a law.
Adam prefigured the One to come, but the gift itself considerably outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one man’s fall so many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming through the one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an abundant free gift. The results of the gift also outweigh the results of one man’s sin: for now after many falls comes grace with its verdict of acquittal. If it is certain that death reigned over everyone as the consequence of one man’s fall, it is even more certain that one man, Jesus Christ, will cause everyone to reign in life who recevies the free gift that he does not deserve, of being made righteous. Again, as one man’s fall brought condemnation on everyone, so the good act of one man brings everyone life and makes them justified. As by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
Gospel Matthew 4:1-11
Jesus was led by the Spirit out into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, after which he was very hungry, and the tempter came and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to turn into loaves.' But he replied, 'Scripture says:
Man does not live on bread alone
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'
The devil then took him to the holy city and made him stand on the parapet of the Temple. 'If you are the Son of God,' he said, 'throw yourself down; for scripture says:
He will put you in his angels' charge,
and they will support you on their hands
in case you hurt your foot against a stone.'
Jesus said to him, 'Scripture also says:
You must not put the Lord your God to the test.'
Next, taking him to a very high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. 'I will give you all these', he said, 'if you fall at my feet and worship me.' Then Jesus replied, 'Be off, Satan! For scripture says:
You must worship the Lord your God,
and serve him alone.'
Then the devil left him, and angels appeared and looked after him.
Rite of Election Scripture - Year B
First Reading Genesis 9:8-15
God spoke to Noah and his sons, See, I establish my Covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; also with every living creature to be found with you, birds, cattle and every wild beast with you: everything that came out of the ark, everything that lives on the earth. I establish my Covenant with you: no thing of flesh shall be swept away again by the waters of the flood. There shall be no flood to destroy the earth again.
God said, Here is the sign of the Covenant I make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all generations: I set my bow in the clouds and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I will recall the Covenant between myself and you and every living creature of every kind. And so the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all things of flesh.
Second Reading 1 Peter 3:18-22
“Christ himself, innocent though he was, died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life, and, in the spirit, he went to preach to the spirits in prison. Now it was long ago, when Noah was still building that ark which saved only a small group of eight people 'by water', and when God was still waiting patiently, that these spirits refused to believe. That water is a type of the baptism which saves you now, and which is not the washing off of physical dirt but a pledge made to God from a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has entered heaven and is at God's right hand, now that he has made the angels and Dominations and Powers his subjects.
Gospel Mark 1:12-15
The Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness and he remained there for forty days, and was tempted by Satan. He was with the wild beasts, and the angels looked after him.
After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. 'The time has come' he said 'and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.
Rite of Election Scripture - Year C
First Reading Deuteronomy 26:4-10 The creed of the Jewish People.
Moses said to the people: The priest shall take the pannier from your hand and lay it before the altar of the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of the Lord your God, you must make this pronouncement:
“My father was a wandering Aramaean. He went down into Egypt to find refuge there, few in numbers; but there he became a nation, great, mighty, and strong. The Egyptians ill-treated us, they gave us no peace and inflicted harsh slavery on us. But we called on the Lord, the God of our fathers. The Lord heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil and our oppression; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders. He brought us here and gave us this land, a land where milk and honey flow. Here then I bring the first-fruits of the produce of the soil that you, Lord, have given me.”
You must then lay them before the Lord your God, and bow down in the sight of the Lord your God.
Second Reading Romans 10:8-13
The Creed of the Christian
Scripture says: The word, that is the faith we proclaim, is very near to you, it is on your lips and in your heart. If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made righteous; by confessing with your lips you are saved. When scripture says: those who believe in him will have no cause for shame, it makes no distinction between Jew and Greek: all belong to the same Lord who is rich enough, however many ask for his help, for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Gospel Luke 4:1-13
Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit through the wilderness, being tempted there by the devil for forty days. During that time he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry. Then the devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to turn into a loaf.’ But Jesus replied, ‘Scripture says: Man does not live on bread alone.’
Then leading him to a height, the devil showed him in a moment of time all the kingdoms of the world and said to him, ‘I will give you all this power and the glory of these kingdoms, for it has been committed to me and I give it to anyone I choose. Worship me, then, and it shall all be yours.’ But Jesus answered him. ‘Scripture says:
You must worship the Lord your God,
And serve him alone.’
Then he led him to Jerusalem and made him stand on the parapet of the Temple. ‘If you are the Son of God’, he said to him ‘throw yourself down from here, for scripture says:
He will put his angels in charge of you
to guard you,
And again:
They will hold you up on their hands
In case you hurt your foot against a stone.’
But Jesus and answered him, ‘It has been said:
You must not put the Lord your God to the test.’
Having exhausted all these ways of tempting him, the devil left him, to return at the appointed time.
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