RCIA (RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS)

If you are an Adult who is not a Catholic, who is seeking entry into the Catholic Church, or you are a baptised Catholic but have not received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion, or have been away from the Church for a long period of time and wish to return, please speak to our Parish Priest. You will normally undertake a course of Catechesis to help prepare you, at the end of which there will be a special celebration called the Rite of Reception, during which you will be received into full communion with the Catholic Church. This often, but not always, happens at the Easter Vigil Mass.

“The sacraments of Christian initiation – Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist – lay the foundations of every Christian life. ‘The sharing in the divine nature given to men through the grace of Christ bears a certain likeness to the origin, development, and nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born anew by Baptism, strengthened by the sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the food of eternal life. By means of these sacraments of Christian initiation, they thus receive in increasing measure the treasures of the divine life and advance toward the perfection of charity’.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church #1212