Children and Youth in the Catechumenate

Anne Y. Koester, JD, MA, is Associate Director of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy in Washington, D.C. She has been published in a number of religious journals and is the editor of Liturgy and Justice: To Worship God in Spirit and Truth and co-editor of Vision: The Scholarly Contributions of Mark Searle to Liturgical Renewal and Called to Participate: Theological, Ritual, and Social Perspectives, published by Liturgical Press.

Contents
Acknowledgments vii

PART ONE
  Chapter 1
     Critical Questions 1
  Chapter 2
     Starting Points 7
  Chapter 3
     Roles and Responsibilities 15
  Chapter 4
     Faith and Conversion 32

PART TWO
  Chapter 5
     Period of Evangelization and Precatechumenate 41
  Chapter 6
     First Ritual Step: Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens 59

PART THREE
  Chapter 7
     Period of the Catechumenate 65
  Chapter 8
     Second Ritual Step: Election or Enrollment of Names 81

PART FOUR
  Chapter 9
     Period of Purification and Enlightenment 85
  Chapter 10
     Third Ritual Step: Celebration of the Sacraments of Initiation 92

PART FIVE
  Chapter 11
     Period of Postbaptismal Catechesis or Mystagogy 97