My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.  I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.  Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.  I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.  Never permit me to be separated from You.  Amen.

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Adult Initiation - OCIA
Baptism
First Holy Communion
Confirmation
Marriage
Reconciliation

The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults or OCIA is the way that the Catholic Church helps people prepare for life as an adult Catholic.

• Do you have questions about the Catholic Faith and are not Catholic?
• Are you a Christian who wants to learn more about Catholicism?
• Has God been calling you to consider Catholic Christian faith?
• Are you an adult Catholic who has never received First Holy Communion?

If you answer yes to any of these questions please join us. When you begin the process there is no obligation on your part. The first meetings are called inquiry and they are a chance for you to ask questions, receive the good news of Catholic Christian life and open the way for spiritual growth. Later on in the process you will be asked to participate in the Rite of Acceptance, for those who are ready may enter into a deeper relationship with the Church and begin their formal preparation for the Sacraments of Initiation within the Catechumenate. In the days leading up to the celebration of Easter the members of the Catechumenate enter into a period of intense preparation. Those who will be received into the Church are immersed in the Church’s prayers and love to prepare for fruitful reception of the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion).

Please Note: You do not have to decided to become Catholic to begin the first part of OCIA called Inquiry classes!

The OCIA is the process that prepares and initiates people into the Catholic Church through the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion. The OCIA is the modern form of the “catechumenate” of the early days of the Church. Becoming Christian in the first five centuries involved a sharp break with the surrounding Roman culture. New Catholic Christians entered into a way of living which demanded deep commitment and often risked their lives to become Christian. In the modern world, our faith also demands deep commitment — our beliefs and the beliefs of our society are often in tension.

For more information please contact Traci Jagger at 273-2336 ext. 3204 or [email protected] or click HERE to learn more.

“Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: ‘Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word’.” (CCC 1213)

We welcome infants and young children into our church through the celebration of this sacrament during weekend Masses. A baptism preparation process is required and these sessions are scheduled throughout the year. 

For baptisms please contact the parish office.

“At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet ‘in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.

“The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ
himself, our Pasch.

The Lord addresses an invitation to us, urging us to receive him in the sacrament of the Eucharist: ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you’.” (CCC 1323-24, 1384)

A two year, family-oriented process, generally beginning in the first grade which prepares children to receive Reconciliation and First Eucharist at the end of the second grade.  
Please contact contact Carol Keane Stein at [email protected] or 913-4940.

“Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the “sacraments of Christian initiation,” whose unity must be safeguarded. It must be explained to the faithful that the reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace. For ‘by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed’.” (CCC 1285)

Confirmation is a two year, family-oriented process, generally beginning in the sixth grade which prepares youth for the reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation at the end of eighth grade.

For more information please contact Deacon Rick Soria at 273-2336 Ext. 3201 or [email protected] 

“The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.” (CCC 1601)
For more information about marriage please visit the USCCB website www.ForYourMarriage.org, which offers a very rich resource for those preparing for the vocation to marriage.

For those who are preparing for marriage, please contact the parish at least 6 months before your anticipated wedding date. A marriage preparation program is required.  To schedule an appointment with the pastor, please call the parish office at 273-2347. 

We encourage the regular reception of this sacrament.  Private reconciliation is held in the church during the following times.:
Tuesday (M)      7:30 - 8:15 am
Friday (V)           5:00  pm to 6:00 pm
Saturday (S)      3:00 - 4:30  pm
We also have Communal reconciliation services which are held seasonally during Advent and Lent.  Private appointments for reconciliation are possible.  Please call the office at 273-2347.