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Nick Wagner

Bishop prays over RCIA catechumen

Setting the Stage

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In Shakespeare’s famous balcony scene, Romeo says of Juliet, “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!” In the text, there is no stage direction to indicate that Juliet is to lean upon her hand. Yet, that is clearly what is intended. Shakespeare often used embedded stage directions. The actors were to intuit what Read More
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The Paradigm Shifts for Successful RCIA

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In the winter of 1990, I was sitting on a cold folding chair in the basement of a rural Minnesota church. There were a half-dozen other hearty souls gathered in a circle with me, most of us bent over Styrofoam cups of weak coffee trying to keep warm. I was the brand-new director of worship Read More