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Bob Rice

Bob Rice is an Assistant Professor of Catechetics at Franciscan University, and he’s got a marvelous beard. Before working at Franciscan (pre-beard) he was a youth minister at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Latham, NY, where he also was an Area Coordinator for Life Teen.

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Inserting Teens Into the Mystery of the Gospels

In my last blog, I covered how the Church wants us to use the baptismal catechumenate as a model for all catechetical activity, and within the catechumenate is a period of formation called mystagogy. In mystagogy, we want to focus on three things: the Word of God, the sacraments, and community. Today I wanted to focus on the first goal of mystagogy, inserting teens into the mystery of God’s Word, especially as it is given to us in the Gospels.
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It’s a Mystery: Drawing Teens Into a Time of Mystagogy

Scripture, Sacraments, and the community. Where in our faith do those three things come together? The Mass. Simply put, the process of mystagogy is to make their lives a liturgy. The community comes together to hear the Word of God (with the Gospels as preeminent) and celebrates the Eucharist.
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