Those seeking renewal of faith

or know someone desiring to learn more about the Catholic faith,

please contact our parish office for information about the RCIA sessions. 

Becoming Catholic - The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)

The RCIA is a process universally restored in the Roman Catholic Church in the 1970s

to prepare unbaptised adults for membership in the Church.

Also called ‘the Catechumenate’,

this process of Christian initiation has several stages and ritual steps,

leading up to the reception of all three sacraments of Initiation:

Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist, ideally but not necessarily at the Easter Vigil.

People undertaking this journey of initiation,

unless they have been baptised into another Christian community, are called catechumens.

If they have been previously baptised, they are called candidates and,

while they normally undertake the same formation in the Catholic faith as catechumens,

they are initiated into the Church through Confirmation and Eucharist only.

Acknowledgement: Excerpt of original text by Shane Dwyer