Celebrating Initiation: A Guide for Priests

by Paul Turner, Jerry Galipeau (Editor)

"Celebrating Initiation" helps seminarians and priests navigate their way through twenty-six rites of initiation, including all of the various rites of the RCIA. Included are adaptations for already baptized candidates, infant baptismal rites, confirmation of a person facing imminent death, and parish celebrations of First Communion. Father Paul Turner is pastor of St. Munchin parish in Cameron, Missouri and its mission, St. Aloysius in Maysville

172 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Paul Turner is pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Kansas City, Missouri. A priest of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, he holds a doctorate in sacred theology from the Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome. He is the author of Glory in the Cross: Holy Week in the Third Edition of The Roman Missal, When Other Christians Become Catholic, and many other titles. He is a former President of the North American Academy of Liturgy and a team member for the North American Forum on the Catechumenate. He is a member of Societas Liturgica and the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. He serves as a facilitator for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy.

Reviews

[Sean Whelan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an indispensable resource to have when preparing any of the rites of adult initiation.