Adult Education Classes Come to the Parish Hall on Sunday morning.
R.C.I.A.
"Once upon a time, in the not too distance past, adults who wanted to join the Catholic Church went through six weeks of 'convert instructions' and were baptized quietly on a Sunday afternoon in a dark church with a few relatives present, two of whom probably also served as godparents. A short time later, perhaps the following Sunday, the new converts received their First Communion, but probably with little attention to the fact that they were joining the community at the Table of the Lord. Confirmation was left until the next visit by the bishop."
The Rite of Christian
Initiation of Adults (often abbreviated RCIA) is the process through which
interested adults and older children are gradually introduced to the
Roman Catholic faith and way of life. Children who were not baptized as
infants are also initiated through an adapted process of this rite, sometimes
incorrectly referred to as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Children (RCIC).