Challenges in Sacramental Prep

Challenges in Sacramental Prep

The Ascension Team

How do you make sacramental prep effective both in preparing individuals for the sacraments and in forming them into disciples? Mike and Dave respond to a listener’s question regarding Baptism prep and discuss sacramental prep as a whole. They share common challenges and primary goals for sacramental prep.

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In order to make disciples, you must catechize and evangelize.

Listener Question

Good morning!

I seem to recall Michael mentioning some time back that he was revamping his parish's preparation for infant baptism. I am interested in doing the same, but I don't really have time to build something from scratch. While there are several programs out there with good information, everything seems to be video/information driven. I am curious what his revised process looks like.

Our parish recently began using Witness to Love for our marriage preparation. It is a virtue-based, catechumenal model for marriage prep, and has already borne great fruit for both the engaged/newlywed couples and the mentors who accompanied them throughout the process. I have been looking everywhere for something similar for baptism preparation, but haven't been able to find anything. I asked the people at Witness to Love if they have any plans to develop something similar for baptism prep, and they say "No."

I really don't think our current preparation - a 60-minute class about the baptism rite and the biblical basis for infant baptism - is really sufficient.

If you have any pointers on how to accompany parents in preparation for baptism and beyond, I would be very interested.

Thank you!

Blessings,

EKSB Listener

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