RCIA Rite of Welcoming and Acceptance

On Sunday, November 20, at 9:00 a.m. Mass, Fr. Emanuel Torres-Fuentes and Deacon Dan Coughlin celebrated the RCIA Rite of Welcoming and Acceptance. The Rite welcomes the Candidates, those who have been baptized in another faith or baptized Catholic as a child but never catechized in the Catholic faith, into the process of full communion with the Church. The Rite of Acceptance recognizes the Catechumen's decision to begin the process of becoming a member of the Catholic Church through Baptism, First Communion, and Confirmation. The two Catechumens and five Candidates received the Cross and the Bible during the Rite.