Today I have the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Ruzicki, Training and Events Manager for Liturgy Training Publications. Michael has been a member of NPM for many years and this year we were honored to have him as one of our MEGA breakout presenters and one of our Plenum Address speakers.
If you are not an NPM member and don’t know what a MEGA breakout is, allow me to share. NPM conventions have breakout sessions in various durations, which we call different names dependent upon that duration. MEGA breakouts are longer and less are offered each day during the convention. This year we featured one MEGA breakout each day.
Michael’s MEGA breakout and Plenum addressed focused on the Sacrament of Baptism and our baptismal call. Even more so, his MEGA breakout presented participants with a practical tool they can use to assess their parish's infant baptisms, first communion Masses, and the celebration of Confirmation through the lens of full, active, and conscious participation.
Whether you attended NPM’s Virtual Convention this year or you didn’t, this is a great episode for you to listen to. Thanks so much to Michael for his time and insights, as always.
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Michael Ruzicki serves as the Training and Events Manager for Liturgy Training Publications and the Director of Music Ministry for St. John Berchmans Parish in Chicago. Before arriving at LTP, Michael served as a team member of the North American Forum on the Catechumenate and as a parish Pastoral Associate for Liturgy and at the Archdiocese of Baltimore as Coordinator of Adult and Sacramental Formation and the Director of the Archdiocesan Music Ministry. Michael is a graduate of The Catholic University of America (religion, art and theatre) and the Washington Theological Union (theological and pastoral studies) in Washington, DC and is the author of “Guide for Training Initiation Ministers: An Introduction to the RCIA” (LTP, 2018) and “A Light for My Path: Praying the Psalms on the Way of the Cross” (LTP, 2015).
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