Abstract
The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults was improved by the Vatican
II Council to return to a method of initiation that mirrored the early
church’s way of bringing new members into the faith community. I
was a member of a small committee that studied the R.C.I A. in our
parish in 1995 and the committee was able to implement a process that
followed the new directives. We made the two-year process of
instruction and faith development flexible to each of the new candidate
or catechumen’s needs. What this project entails is a systematic
approach of spiritual reflection that is used to evaluate the effectiveness
of the process. Our main goal is to improve our outreach to the new
members in a way that may be more meaningful to them. These
concerns are of an ongoing nature and we are now taking steps to
maintain this through periodic reevaluation of the process.
