This volume is a handbook of all material necessary to run an adult instruction program in the parish. It is designed to involve the inquirer with the parish and the parish with the inquirer. Father Gallagher, director of the Paulist Institute for Religious Research, demonstrates the importance of initiating the catechumen into the Church at the parish level. In this way he is received not so much into a vague universal Church as into this parish community where he will live his Christian faith. And it this way, the catechumenate becomes a means of growth in holiness for the Church as well as the individual.