RCIA - The Process

Just the other day, Angie was agitated after she put down the house phone. Before that I overheard her asking "where in the Bible say so?"

She was sort of half complaining out loud about the caller insisting that Mary has other child besides Jesus...

On probing I realised that the caller was her former school mate who is a Protestant. Angie was not prepared to take such utterance lying down and became quite hot under the collar. She related to me that her Protestant friend had isisted about Mary's other children but could not quote her source of this "information" other than "my pastor said so".

Initially I was a wee bit concern by Angie's strong reaction but on hindsight I should have been proud of her conviction to so strongly stated her stand on this matter.

I believe the RCIA journey have lay the foundation of our faith and through the process help strenghten it.

If our RCIA journey was a "six one-on-one sessions", devoid of OJT, sharing and the breaking of the word, I am afraid the end result would be similar to Angie's Protestant friend type of product i.e. misinformed and clueless.

I pray that God be with us through the journey and that we be further enlighten by His words.

God Bless.

Bert