These past few months I was blessed to help lead OCIA at St John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Bath. It was my first time volunteering in this capacity, and as a cradle Catholic I had never been through the OCIA process myself.
The whole experience was a wonderful learning curve, and seeing our 10 catechumens and an additional 10 candidates received into the Church at the Easter Vigil felt like a little slice of heaven. Here are five things I learnt along the way.
Lesson 1: RCIA is OCIA. After some initial research, our group made the decision to follow the US bishops in describing ourselves as an OCIA (Order of Christian Initiation of Adults) group. This is an attempt to more accurately reflect the Latin name that the Church gives to this time of formation: Ordo initiationis christianae adultorum.
