Resources
Disclaimer: RCIA changes to OCIA in November 2024. While the cover of these resources may still say “RCIA,” the content within each one is still helpful and relevant for OCIA. We’ll be updating cover art in time and making minor edits to the content. Until then, explore our products and get helpful insights for your ministry.
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OCIA Leader’s Manual
This resource provides an unparalleled comprehensive aide for OCIA leaders. This book includes:
- how to facilitate an evangelizing and welcoming environment in the parish
- how to recruit and train OCIA teams and sponsors
- discerning the signs and stages of conversion
- handling annulments and issues of baptismal validity, etc.
You’ll also get practical appendices with a wide variety of useful forms, sample letters, and sample retreat formats, all copyable.
OCIA Catechist's Manual
A practical and structured guide for catechists, this beautiful spiral-bound book helps catechists prepare for each OCIA session in a flexible, highly customizable way. Together with the companion Participant’s Book, the OCIA Catechist’s Manual allows you to present the faith systematically and organically.
You’ll get 60 session plans with:
- Full Scripture and Catechism references
- Definitions of key terms participants need to know
- Suggestions for music and prayers
- Discussion questions to use at each session
- Helpful and practical appendices with much more information
OCIA Participant’s Book and USB Flash Drive
Make a one-time purchase today that gives you the ability to produce unlimited copies from one book and USB flash drive, giving you hundreds of dollars of savings in the long-run!
Get access to 380 handouts on topics such as:
- Doctrine
- Lives of the Saints
- The Liturgical year
- Prayers and psalms
Tailor your OCIA program to your parish and participants’ unique needs year after year, with flexibility and cost effectiveness!
OCIA Godparent & Sponsor Handbook
Guide your godparents and sponsors with this easy, effective manual. Give them the chance for an easy, at-home retreat based on encountering Scripture through a highly-accessible form of Lectio Divina. This new resource enables parish OCIA leaders to provide a high-quality means of effectively communicating the Church’s intentions for this crucial ministry of companionship and conversion in the catechumenate. You’ll get 60 session plans with:
- Full Scripture and Catechism references
- Definitions of key terms participants need to know
- Suggestions for music and prayers
- Discussion questions to use at each session
- Helpful and practical appendices with much more information
OCIA Overview Chart
Train your OCIA teams with ease! The OCIA Overview Chart presents the information in the guidelines of the OCIA ritual book in a full color fold-out chart, showing the entire catechumenal process at a glance. It’s an easy-to-use reference, and perfect for every level of catechumen and sponsor/godparent.
Book Tabs for the OCIA
Specifically designed for the U.S. edition of the Vatican document entitled Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, which contains the guidelines and ritual texts for the OCIA process, these color-coded tabs help users easily find their place within the document. Mark the major divisions and rites found in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults with these forty color-coded, self-adhesive tabs.
Spanish Resources
Over the last several years, ACM has been asked by many dioceses, parishes, and individuals to develop Spanish-language resources to complement our growing number of publications in the English language.
ACM is making these materials available only through our online store as files downloadable and then printable as PDFs.
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