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SuscipeMeDomine - that is my understanding of the process as well.

I just sent off an email to the local parish, hopefully they can clarify for us. And I am exactly 1 month late for RCIA registration so I also asked what I should do now, like should I just continue to attend Mass and wait for next years program to start.

Thank you all for your knowledge!
 
a_soft_answer said:
SuscipeMeDomine - that is my understanding of the process as well.

I just sent off an email to the local parish, hopefully they can clarify for us. And I am exactly 1 month late for RCIA registration so I also asked what I should do now, like should I just continue to attend Mass and wait for next years program to start.

Thank you all for your knowledge!
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That’s not that horrible, at least you’ll have plenty of time to make sure you know everything about the Church that you really need to know. I studied the Church for almost 6 years before starting RCIA this year 🙂
 
I converted in 2005. I had already been baptized in a protestant church during my youth but there were some in the RCIA group that had not been. At the Easter Vigil mass those that needed to be baptized were and then all of us were confirmed together and received the Eucharist for the first time. There was no waiting period. God bless you on your road home to the Roman Catholic Church!
 
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That is the link my friend directed me to, that further confused me because it talks so much about conditions with irregular marriage.
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Yeah, I’ll be honest and say I read the whole thing and all it did was confuse me.
 
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That is the link my friend directed me to, that further confused me because it talks so much about conditions with irregular marriage.
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The link is to a page dealing with canon law issues and RCIA. The place where someone in RCIA will interact with canon law and the Tribunal is with the issue of marriage. So what they’re addressing is what do you do with a catechumen or candidate who is in an irregular marriage. And primarily what they are saying for those in irregular marriages is that the problem needs to be dealt with before someone can receive the sacraments of initiation.

If you’re in a valid marriage then this particular link is not relevant to you.
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
The link is to a page dealing with canon law issues and RCIA. The place where someone in RCIA will interact with canon law and the Tribunal is with the issue of marriage. So what they’re addressing is what do you do with a catechumen or candidate who is in an irregular marriage. And primarily what they are saying for those in irregular marriages is that the problem needs to be dealt with before someone can receive the sacraments of initiation.

If you’re in a valid marriage then this particular link is not relevant to you.
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And that was exactly my thought. Still waiting on a reply from the parish.
 
I just got a reply from the Father.
He said my friend is not correct, there is no waiting period and I would be baptized and confirmed at Easter Vigil Mass. I am too late now to be eligible for this coming Easter but am welcome to start attending RCIA if I wish and just continuing on next year in preparation.

Now can I ask that you all pray for me, and for my husband that he can be supportive and also be open to God’s will himself. Thank you!
 
I’ll add your family to my prayers.

I waited 5 years to come into the Church because I was waiting for my husband to come with me. And he did. I pray your does also.
 
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I am learning about the Catholic faith and just attended my first Mass last Sunday with plans of attending again. I’ve learned quite a bit from some online friends, from listening to Catholic Answers, reading online, and reading Catholicism for Dummies (which was recommended to me otherwise I never would have picked it up and it has been really helpful!).
I am a former Mormon, and I know that my LDS baptism is invalid so I am in need of all the sacraments. I live in Utah.

I was talking with an online friend yesterday, who is a convert from Lutheranism, and she said that her and her husband had to wait a year after coming into the church to be in full communion with it. So if I were baptized say at Easter Vigil 2012, then I would not be in full communion until Easter Vigil 2013. And that in the interum I’d be able to go to confession, but I would not be able to partake of the Eucharist.

I had never heard of a year probationary period before, besides in her situation but she says it is the Salt Lake Diocese rule, and she gave me a link to an article about it.** It is kind of long, so to summarize it talked a lot about how to handle somebody with an irregular marriage (either part of the couple had been married before their current marriage), but all I can make of it is that if I had an irregular marriage then I’d need to get that worked out before coming in to full communion. As far as I know my marriage is …erm…regular because it is a first and only marriage for either of us, it was just performed in an LDS temple, though it is of course a legal marriage.** Here is the link

Anyway, my point - does anybody know of a waiting period to come into full communion in the church like this?
I am excited at the prospects of coming into the church, and I know it is already going to take longer than I would wish because of the RCIA program, and taking things slowly for the sake of my husband who is still a believing Mormon though seems supportive of me and my interest in the Catholic Church. I am just trying to trust in God’s timing and follow His will. It is just heartbreaking to think of coming into the church and having to wait a full year to partake of the Eucharist.
Thanks!
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Emphasis mine. I think the irregularity of your friend’s marriage lengthened the waiting period. If there were no impediments in your marriage, i think your wait will be variably shorter.
 
Hi.

If your friend had an irregular marriage, then maybe that’s what’s causing the delay. She needs to settle that first for her to be received fully into the Church. If you don’t have any impediment to your marriage, then I don’t the wait will apply to you.

I will pray for your family too. Welcome home! 🙂
 
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I just got a reply from the Father.
He said my friend is not correct, there is no waiting period and I would be baptized and confirmed at Easter Vigil Mass. I am too late now to be eligible for this coming Easter but am welcome to start attending RCIA if I wish and just continuing on next year in preparation.

Now can I ask that you all pray for me, and for my husband that he can be supportive and also be open to God’s will himself. Thank you!
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That’s wonderful news! Please continue to ask questions. Prayers for you and your husband.
 
a_soft_answer said:
I just got a reply from the Father.
He said my friend is not correct, there is no waiting period and I would be baptized and confirmed at Easter Vigil Mass. I am too late now to be eligible for this coming Easter but am welcome to start attending RCIA if I wish and just continuing on next year in preparation.

Now can I ask that you all pray for me, and for my husband that he can be supportive and also be open to God’s will himself. Thank you!
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YEAH!!! You will be in my prayers.
 
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I wanted to clarify - and sorry I don’t have all the terminology down (I keep saying learning Catholicism also requires learning a new language).
My friend was saying that there was a year waiting period beyond baptism before she could partake of the Eucharist. I know that RCIA is varied, and personal journeys are different, but this waiting period was actually after officially becoming a member of the Church.

I will get in touch with my Parish and ask there, as that will be the best option for complete clarification. I am just confused because everything I have ever read about people coming into the church talks about their joy at receiving the Eucharist at that same time, and it is something I long for so much.

Would it be possible that a diocese would make it a rule for somebody to wait a year after being baptized to take communion?
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You do not need to learn a new language. It helps to learn some words in Latin. But this is not that very difficult.

I am a convert. It takes time to learn what the Church is about. It takes almost as long to unlearn all the things you have heard about the Church. Many Catholics (myself included) are not authorities and have many erroneous concepts.

I have been a Cathoic now for 18 years and each day I discover something new. To me the Church has been like a castle with many many rooms. I wander around in it and keep discovering beautiful and wonderful customs, ideas and traditions. Do not be in a rush. This can be a wonderful journey for you.
 
I didn’t literally mean learn a new language, there is just so much terminology that was never on my radar even in my previous religious experience and practice. It is just like learning medical terminology, you don’t really need to know until you start to use it.

My friends marriage wasn’t irregular, and I sent her to reply from the priest and she still thinks what happened with her conversion and the waiting period is right, and to not be surprised when I am baptized that I have to wait. Oh well. I’ll just trust in with the father said, and ask a lot of questions and stay on top of the schedule as things go. I don’t know how long things will take, because of my husband.
 
I see what you mean. Yes, it takes awhile to learn the “special language” of the Church. But that is still the beauty of it. No matter how much you learn there are depths of wisdom still waiting for you.
 
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