Can I take RCIA distance learning classes

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I’m a long haul truck driver and I’m only home every few months. I know there are aspects that I’d have to be at my home church for, but is there a way to do most of it through home (on the road) study?
I go to church every where I go, do I have to do it all at one church? I really want to become Catholic, but don’t know how to go about it.
Thanks for your help.
Nicole
 
Nicole,
Hello and welcome.
You need to talk to the priest of the parish that you would call your home parish. Im guessing he would talk with his RCIA director and come up with a plan to help fit your unique situation.
You most certainly can do things in the course of your travels (ie read Bible, CCC, RCIA materials etc.

You situation would require more of private instruction than the normal RCIA process. Which is a valid option.
 
Hi Nicole,

My husband is not attending an RCIA class, because he is going to a Latin Mass parish for his instruction, and the parish is an hour away from our home (and two hours from his work). He meets regularly, one-on-one with a priest there, and the times are worked out around his work times. In hubby’s case, he goes once a fortnight and drives directly from work to the presbytery. He gets there between 7.30 and 8pm, then he gets home around 10.30.

For us this works, and I would hope that there would be provision in all other parishes for cases where a person can’t make it to a regular RCIA course. Contact your priest for info - I’m sure they will be keen to make arrangements for you.
 
An important goal of the RCIA program is to integrate the person into a Catholic community. However, there are often exceptional cases where this is not possible. One then has to create a program which will meet the goals as possible.

I had an eighty year old lady who was confined to bed in a nursing home. We got someone knowledgeable to be her sponsor. The sponsor attended the classes each week and then repeated them for her face to face. She was not able to come to the Easter Vigil; so one of the priests baptized and confirmed her when he went to the home for the monthly mass.
 
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An important goal of the RCIA program is to integrate the person into a Catholic community. However, there are often exceptional cases where this is not possible. One then has to create a program which will meet the goals as possible.

I had an eighty year old lady who was confined to bed in a nursing home. We got someone knowledgeable to be her sponsor. The sponsor attended the classes each week and then repeated them for her face to face. She was not able to come to the Easter Vigil; so one of the priests baptized and confirmed her when he went to the home for the monthly mass.
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How beautiful.
 
Nicole_Hilfman said:
I’m a long haul truck driver and I’m only home every few months. I know there are aspects that I’d have to be at my home church for, but is there a way to do most of it through home (on the road) study?
I go to church every where I go, do I have to do it all at one church? I really want to become Catholic, but don’t know how to go about it.
Thanks for your help.
Nicole
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you can in our parish, oil rig workers also welcome.
call the Catholic parish where you are most often when you are home and simply ask, not the secretary, but the pastor, for an appointment to discuss your personal situation.

you can do the study portion on-line or on the road, but not, obviously, the part about becoming part of a community, because you have to spend at least some time within that community. Talk to the pastor. We have one trucker who has regular stops on his “route” and participates at Mass and RCIA whereever he is on a given Sunday. He will eventually be received into the Church here, where his family is, but of course it is going to take a lot longer. The selection of sponsor is also critical here so there is ongoing support.
 
=Nicole Hilfman;8507774]I’m a long haul truck driver and I’m only home every few months. I know there are aspects that I’d have to be at my home church for, but is there a way to do most of it through home (on the road) study?
I go to church every where I go, do I have to do it all at one church? I really want to become Catholic, but don’t know how to go about it.
Thanks for your help.
Nicole
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Not in the manner your asking BUT:)

Hi Nicole,

I’m a trained, tested, certified [annually] Teacher of our Catholic Faith that is now retired after TEACHING FOR MANY YEARS.

I am a member of the MARIAN CATECHIST LAY APOSTOLATE approved by Rome and our charism is teaching and sharing our faith.

I taught RCIA for 3 years and have since retiring taken more than a dozen people through a supplemential RCIA program that is in far greater depth and maybe even broader than most RCIA programs. ALL I DO IS FREE.

I can teach you all that we believe and WHY we can and do believe it is greater depth and personally answer all of your questions along the way.

If you were to keep these lessons and put them on a disk and give it to Father to review; then I MAY BE POSSIBLE that he’d permit you to by pass RCIA? It would be his decsion.

Taking my program would be the only option I am aware of. And we can do it at a frequency rate that suits you as everything I do is cuntom taylored to the needs of those I’m teaching.

When your done you WILL know a greaqt deal more than those attending RCIA. And we are totally loyal to our Piope and the Magisterium:thumbsup:

Let me know if I can be of assistance?

God Bless you,
Pat

PJM on the FORUM

patrickmiron66@yahoo.com
 
Wow! Thanks! That helps a lot. I’d better get on this, looks like it may take some time.
Take care and God bless!
 
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