Are you considering becoming a Catholic?

The Catholic Church offers a beautiful, rich, and well-formed process for adults who wish to enter into full communion with the Church. This process is known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). RCIA is a liturgical journey designed for adults who are seeking, questioning, and exploring the Catholic way of life. It is a path of prayer, reflection, and learning about the Catholic faith.

The first step in joining an RCIA group—or in beginning individual instruction—is a simple one: a sense in your heart that God may be calling you to become Catholic.

In the sacraments of Christian initiation we are freed from the power of darkness and joined to Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. We receive the Spirit of filial adoption and are part of the entire people of God in the celebration of the memorial of the Lord's death and resurrection. 

Baptism incorporates us into Christ and forms us into God's people

By signing us with the gift of the Spirit, Confirmation makes us more completely the image of the Lord and fills us with the Holy Spirit, so that we may bear witness to him before all the world and work to bring the Body of Christ to its fulness as soon as possible.

Finally, coming to the table of the eucharist, we eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man so that we may have eternal life and show forth the unity of Gods People.

Thus the three sacraments of Christian initiation closely combine to bring us, the faithful of Christ, to his full stature and to enable us to carry out the mission of the entire people of God in the Church and in the world.