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OCIA— Christian Initiation: A Liturgical, Catechetical, and Pastoral Process

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Dr. Bill Keimig is Deputy Director of the Catechetical Institute (CI) at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. For 15 years, he served as Director of Religious Education at St. Mary’s of Piscataway Catholic Church in Clinton, Maryland. Along with this work, Dr. Keimig served as a master catechist in the Hearts Aflame and Faith Foundations catechist formation programs for the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. Dr. Keimig has served as a speaker in many other settings, including at the annual St. John Bosco Conference in Steubenville for over two decades, and at major venues in over 85 dioceses. He served for nine years as Director of the Association for Catechumenal Ministry (ACM) for many years, which assists dioceses in training clergy and laity to do RCIA ministry, and was the managing editor of ACM’s series of RCIA texts currently used in thousands of U.S. parishes and in many other countries. He also served for nine years as a volunteer counselor for a local crisis pregnancy center. Dr. Keimig holds a Doctorate in Ministry from the Catholic University of America, and Master’s Degree in Theology and Christian Ministry with a Certification in Catechetics from Franciscan University. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Public Management from the University of Maryland in environmental policy. He and his wife, Heather, have six children running around: Rose, William, Julianna, Theodore, Elizabeth, and Gregory.

Notes

[1] Aidan Kavanagh, The Shape of Baptism: The Rite of Christian Initiation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1978), 128, see also 120–22.

[2] See The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (International Commission on English in the Liturgy, 2022), nos. 40, 75.1, 75.3, 79, 141, 147, 247. Hereafter cited as OCIA.

[3] See Congregation for the Clergy, General Directory for Catechesis (Washington, DC: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1998), no. 85. Hereafter cited as GDC.

[4] Kavanagh, Shape of Baptism, 118, 120–21 (italics original).

[5] Johannes Hofinger and Francis J. Buckley, The Good News and Its Proclamation (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968), 56 (italics original).

[6] See OCIA, nos. 38, 75.1, 78, 139, 245.

[7] Second Vatican Council, Christus Dominus, no. 14; Catechesi Tradendae, no. 19. See also Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, General Catechetical Directory (1971), no. 17.

[8] Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum, nos. 8, 10.

[9] See OCIA, nos. 42, 45, 75.2, 75.4, 120, 244, 246.

[10] Kavanagh, Shape of Baptism, 182.

[11] Second Vatican Council, Ad Gentes, no. 14.

[12] GDC, no. 68

[13] GDC, no. 67.

[14] See Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 89.

[15] See Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium, nos. 64–66.

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