To Become Catholic

We offer RCIA classes, which introduce non-Catholics Christians and non-Christians into the Catholic Church, this year beginning Tuesday Oct. 13, 2011, at 7pm and continuing for every other Tuesday through Easter of 2012. For more information, please call Barbara Courtois at (310) 289-5139.

RCIA  stands for Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. All sacraments are an encounter with Christ, who is himself the original sacrament. The sacraments of initiation — Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist — introduce the recipient into the Catholic faith and lay the foundation of every Christian life. The RCIA  program prepares adults to receive some or all of the sacraments, thereby entering into the Church, which is the Body of Christ.

The RCIA program at St. Victor is for those baptized into other Christian traditions who are considering joining the Catholic community, adults considering baptism or just Catholics who want to learn more about their faith. Call Parish office. (310) 652-6477 x5. If you have a friend who has expressed interest in Catholicism, invite him or her and by all means come along!

“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.”

– Paul VI, apostolic constitution, Divinae
consortium naturae: AAS 63 (1971) 657; cf. RCIA Introduction 1-2.

Catechism of the Catholic Church: RCIA