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March 25, 2025Want to journey alongside people who are becoming Catholic and learn how to share your faith with others? Join the OCIA team for an upcoming training series led by expert Mary Birmingham!
In five weeks, we will walk through each step of the initiation process and discuss how we can improve it at Holy Infant. This is an exciting opportunity for the current OCIA team and anyone who may be interested in serving as a Sponsor or Catechist in the future as our program continues to grow.
Curious but don't want to commit yet? Just join us for the first overview session on April 29th! We will meet at 7 pm in the Hospitality room of the DeSales Center.---Mary Birmingham, (MA Liturgy/Theology, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN) is the former director of music, liturgy and Christian Initiation at Ascension Catholic Church in Melbourne, FL and has been involved in OCIA ministry on a national level since 1992. Mary provides full day workshops in scriptural and doctrinal catechesis, liturgical and sacramental catechesis and OCIA and the year-round process. Mary is a former presenter for the North American Forum on the Catechumenate and travels extensively throughout the United States and Canada presenting workshops on the OCIA for dioceses as well as the Catechist School, a two day seminar that teaches skills for the implementation of the OCIA that she developed with her colleague Nick Wagner of TEAMRCIA.Mary is the author of numerous widely used resources for the OCIA: Child’s Journey of Faith, Formed in Faith, Confirming Adult Catholics for Confirmation, La Confirmation De Los Catalicos Adultos, Purified and Enlightened (GIA/World Library Publications- A resource for Lent), Year Round Catechumenate (Liturgical Training Publications), Word and Worship Workbooks for Year A, Year B, and Year C, Faith, Life and Creed (online resource: Breaking Open the Word for the Three Cycles of the Year and Forty One Doctrinal Issues) (TEAMRCIA.COM), Know And Live Your Catholic Faith (web resource published by GIA/World Library Pub.)Mary brings her passion for the liturgy and the Rite of Christian Initiation and its power to transform hearts to this work of evangelization hoping it will assist catechists in their remarkable conversion-centered ministries.