Becoming catholic?

Question

For the past month or so i have been attending catholic church with my fiance. I am just learning all things catholic form attending. I intend to start the inquiry process of the RCIA after lent. I was never baptized into a relegion, though i have gone to church off and on sence i was a child. Will the process of becoming catholic take longer than someone who has been baptized?

Answer 1

No.

The process will take about the same amount of time whether you are baptized or not.

Welcome to the family.

God bless.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Completing the RCIA classes to become Catholic usually extends from September through Easter of the following year.

Previously baptized Christians may sometimes be "fast-tracked" but it's not the norm.

Just figure about 6 months to get everything done, and you're all set.

In the mean time, send me your mailing address, and I'll send you a free copy of my Catholic Resource CD, so you can get a "head-start".

God bless you.

Answer 3

You will start with RCIA after Easter and you can be baptized during Easter in 2008. RCIA takes a year unless you have doubts and need more time to gets your questions answered. It's during Lent that baptisims aren't done out of the whole year. Good luck and God bless!

Answer 4

RCIA will take about 9 months whether you are Baptized or not. The only real difference is that you will be referred to as a Catechumen, while those Baptized will be referred to as Candidates.

Welcome Home to the Catholic Church

Answer 5

The Catholic Church requires of all adults, who seek admission into her fold, a supernatural sorrow for all past sins, and a

firm belief in all the teachings of Christ and His Apostles, as handed down from the beginning by the written and the unwritten tradition of Christ's one divine Church. Converts are required to study carefully under the guidance of some priest an approved catechism, i. e.} a brief summary of Catholic belief and practice.

A member of one of the other churches is always asked to take the following oath upon the Gospels, before he is baptized: "With a sincere heart, therefore, and with unfeigned faith, I detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect, opposed to the said Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church. So help me God, and these His holy Gospels which I touch with my hand."

If a convert is certain of the validity of his Baptism, he is bound only to confess the mortal sins he has committed after Baptism. If he is not certain of its validity, he is baptized conditionally with the words: "If thou art not baptized, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." He then receives the Sacrament of Penance conditionally, so that he is certainly forgiven by one Sacrament or the other.

As Baptism impresses a character, i. e., "a certain spiritual, indelible sign" (Council of Trent, Sess. vii., can. 9) upon the soul, it cannot be repeated.

Answer 6

Nope. You will go through the same classes, the difference will be at the Easter Vigil Mass, when you denter the Church.

Baptism is the first Sacrament, so you ( and anyone else who is unbaptixed) will be baptised first, then all Confirmed, then receive the Eucharist with everyone else.

Welcome Home!

Answer 7

No. The process is the same. For me it was about 6 months of classes - 6 of the best months of my life. It has taken a tremedous load off of my heart as well as given me the greatest joys having finally learned my faith.

God bless and welcome home.

Answer 8

No. RCIA is RCIA - and depending on the parish and the priest, it is pretty standard, both in terms of material and time.

Good luck and God bless you on your journey home.

(I am not Roman Catholic)

Answer 9

The catholic church is awesome i love my religeon XD

Answer 10

It takes the same length of time whether you're baptized or not.


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