The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Process
2009-2010
All activities are in the Lawler Center – Sacred Heart - 7:00pm to 8:30pm Unless otherwise stated
Date
Chapter Presenter
Chapter Presenter- August 31 Tour of the Church Fr. Bill
- Sept 7 No Session – Labor Day
- Sept 14 1 & 2 (God the Father) Paul MacDonald
- Sept 21 Eucharistic Devotions – Church – 7:00pm (20 & 22 also)
- Sept 28 3 & 4 (Jesus Christ) Paul MacDonald
- Oct 5 5 & 6 (Jesus Christ) Bernie Huff
- Oct 12 7 & 8 (Jesus Christ) Bernie Huff
- Oct 19 9 & 10 (Holy Spirit) Sister Thomas More
- Oct 26 13 (Eternal Life) Sister Karen
- Nov 2 Explanation of the RCIA Rites Fr. Bill
- Nov 8 Rite of Acceptance and Welcome – Church – 12:00pm
- Nov 9 14 (Introduction to the Sacraments) Fr. Bill
- Nov 16 18 & 19 (Penance & Anointing of the Sick) Fr. Bill
- Nov 23 17 (Eucharist) Fr. Bill
- Nov 30 15 & 16 (Baptism & Confirmation) Sister Karen
- Dec 7 Immaculate Conception Mass – Church – 7:00pm
- Dec 14 21 (Matrimony) Sister Thomas More
- Dec 21 20 (Holy Orders) Fr. Bill
- Dec 28 No Session – Christmas break
- Jan 4 23 (Life in Christ – part I) Sister Thomas More
- Jan 11 24 (Life in Christ – part II) Sister Karen
- Jan 18 Introduction to Morality Fr. Bill
- Jan 25 25 & 26 & 27 (Commandments 1, 2, 3) Paul MacDonald
- Feb 1 28 & 29 & 30 (Commandments 4, 5, 6) Bernie Huff
- Feb 8 31, 32, 33, 34 (Commandments 7, 8 9, 10) Bernie Huff
- Feb 15 35 & 36 (Prayer in General & the Lord’s Prayer) Paul MacDonald
- Feb 16 Parish Dinner – La Primavera Restaurant – 6:00pm
- Feb 17 Ash Wednesday – Church - 7:00pm
- Feb 20 Rite of Sending – Church - 5:00pm Liturgy
- Feb 21 Rite of Election / Continuing Conversion - Cathedral – time TB A
- Feb 22 Join the Parish in Adult Education - The Church (11) Fr. Bill
- March 1 Join the Parish in Adult Education - The Church (11) Fr. Bill
- March 8 Join the Parish in Adult Education - The Church (11) Fr. Bill
- March 15 Join the Parish in Adult Education - The Church (11) Fr. Bill
- March 22 No class because of Penance Service March 26
- Mar 26 Parish Penance Service – Church - 7:00pm
- March 29 Mass of the Blessing of the Oils – Cathedral – 5:30pm
- Mach 30 Practice for Easter Vigil - Church - 7:00pm
- April 1 Mass of the Lord’s Supper – Church - 7:00pm
- April 2 Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion - Church – 1:30pm
- April 3 Easter Vigil – Church - 8:00pm – (arrive at 7:15pm)
- April 5 No session – Easter break
- April 12 The Easter Vigil Experience Fr. Bill
- April 19 12 & 22 (Mary and Devotions) Bernie Huff
- April 26 Living the Catholic Faith Team
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Beginning November 8, 2008 all Catechumens and Candidates will participate in the
Breaking Open of the Word
during the 12:00 noon Liturgy.
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
R C I A
Mary Ann was a beautiful and enthusiastic young woman of twenty-four, who had just one year before she married George, a life-long Catholic. Never a member of any church, she had received no formal religious training. Yet her family had always prayed together, and she deeply believed in God. She yearned to share her faith with others, and especially with her husband George. Her longing led Mary Ann to the local Catholic parish where she asked to be baptized and confirmed, and to be welcomed to the Eucharistic table.
Rick had just graduated from a Midwestern college and moved to a new city in the East to begin his first job. As an infant, Rick was baptized in his father’s Catholic faith. Rick’s parents were divorced, when he was very young. He lived with his mother until he left for college. Because his mother was not active in any church, Rick was never catechized in the faith, and never received any of the other sacraments. As he began a new life in a new city, he was eager to find some guidance for his life and to enjoy the support of a community of Christians who shared his values.
Patricia, a twenty-nine year old single woman, grew up in a strongly Lutheran family. She was baptized as an infant, attended Sunday school, and received confirmation and communion in her parents’ Lutheran church. However, during her college years she began to drift away from God and from the Church. Although she had very little interest in religion as a college student, many of her friends were Catholics, and occasionally she attended Sunday Mass with them.
After eight years as a social worker, she began to feel the need to be part of a Church community where she could once again nurture, celebrate and share her faith in God.
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) provides a process for people like Mary Ann, Rick and Patricia, people who are searching, people who wish, consciously and freely, to seek the living God in the person and messages of Jesus as lived out in the Catholic Church.
The reasons why people are initially attracted to the Catholic Church are as varied as the inquirers themselves, and yet all those who enter the RCIA process share a desire to come to a living Faith in God as members of the Catholic Community.
The initiation of adults is a gradual process that takes place within the community of the faithful. In fact there are four periods in the initiation process, each of which corresponds to a person’s growth in the faith and entry into life of the Catholic Community.
The Journey.....
Evangelization and Precatechumenate:
The purpose of this period is to guide inquirers into an initial
conversion or deeper conversion to Christ, through information
sessions and fellowship.
Catechumenate: The purpose of this period is to deepen
conversion by embracing the community's way of life, by participation
in the Sunday Liturgy of the Word and by catechesis (teaching and
sharing the faith).
Purification and Enlightenment: This is immediate and
intensive preparation for the celebration of the sacraments of initiation
(Baptism and / or Confirmation and Eucharist). This period coincides
with the season of Lent, whereby the participants join the whole
community in focusing on the transformation of the whole person
to the way of Christ, a life based on the Gospel.
Mystagogy: After the celebration of the sacraments of initiation
at Easter the newly initiated savor the experience of these sacraments and reflect on their lives and enter into the works of the Gospel through the ministries of the parish community.
The Catholic Communities of Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint George Mission wish to offer you this special invitation to walk with us on a journey of inquiry and exploration of the Catholic Faith. If you would like someone from our RCIA team to contact you or would simply like additional information, please complete the short form below and click on submit. You may print the form and mail to the church or drop in a collection basket at any of the masses. Additionally, you are invited to e-mail Fr. Bill at wmr12846@msn.com
A journey with a friend is much better than one who walks alone.
RCIA SCHEDULE
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