Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 79 No. 3, 2009.
Review article
The Initiation of Adults -A Model of Pastoral Care in the Parish Community
Alozije Čondić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
If Christian initiation is brought down to the issuance of the sacraments and limited only to teaching children and youth until they accept Confirmation, then pastoral work limits the fibre of the Church as well as depriving this initiation of any deeper effect in social-cultural circumstances. In this regard, the author refers to the adversity of the definition, notion and relations of Christian initiation and Catechumens in pastoral work. Through a theological-pastoral angle of judgement analyses this issue and points out some vital pastoral initiatives concerning the initiation of adults in the parish community, referring to the need for change in the current method of parish pastoral care. Seeing that any reference to the initiation of adults cannot bypass the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), the author refers to its position and significance in pastoral work. The author then refers to the relationship between initiation and new Evangelisation, stressing its vital need for our social-religious circumstances. In the last part of the article, the author discusses the role of the initiation of adults in renewing parish pastoral care.
Keywords
initiation of adults; Evangelisation; pastoral care; faith; parish community
Hrčak ID:
41026
URI
Publication date:
2.10.2009.
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