Resources
Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment
Ed. by Joseph Healey and Jeanne Hinton (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Boks, 2005).
This is an inspirational collection of stories and case studies from across six continents that celebrates life, growth and development of Small Christian Communities world-wide today. The story of our own Project Link-up with its focus on SCC accompaniment of catechumens appears in the Asia/Oceania section.
Alternatively, an abbreviated online version (in PDT format) which includes brief description, table of contents and chapter preview is available at the Maryknoll Mall Website at
Copies may be purchased through the Australian distributor
Rainbow Books/Word of Life
303 Arthur Street
Fairfield Victoria 3078
Ph: (61-3) 9481 6611
Fax: (61-3) 9481 2371
Locating the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) into a Small Church Community Setting.
The pastoral experience of the Belgrave parish has been set down in a seventeen page booklet by Paul O'Bryan, original architect of Belgrave's SCCs, now working as director of Small Church Community development in the diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
A fee of AU$5.00 is requested to cover reproduction and postage of the booklet.
To order a copy of this resource booklet, please send a cheque or money order for AU$5.00 (made out to Annette Hanigan) with your return postal address to:
Annette Hanigan
47 Simson Street
Portarlington, Victoria
Australia 3223
Other suggested reading
Thomas Kleissler, Margo Le Bert and Mary McGuiness (1991). SCCs: A Vision of Hope. New York: Paulist Press, Mahwah. (See especially Chapter 15, "The RCIA and SCCs" pp191-204.)
Thomas P. Ivory STD (1988). Conversion and Community: A Catechumenal Model for Total Parish Formation. New York: Paulist Press, Mahwah.
James O'Halloran SDB (2002). Small Christian Communities: Vision and Practicalities. Dublin: The Columba Press.
Robert K. Moriarty (1994). The Catechumenate and Small Christian Communities: Building Church Together. A Report On The 1994 Conference of the North American Forum for Small Christian Communities. NAFSCC, Louisville, Kentucky.