RCIA basics please!

[cheezey]

Could someone give me a basic rundown? How long it takes on average? Is Easter the only time for completion? Do they run certain times in a year? Is every diocese radically different?

Sorry to ask a a super basic, but these questions have been unanswered since late November/early December. Really would like to know…

thank you!
hopefully, this was the place to post, also.

(I ask while listening to Johnny Cash singing 'He Turned the Water into Wine")

 

[Denho]

Are you wanting to join an Eastern Catholic Church? We do not normatively use the “RCIA” program as such. If you are seeking to join the Latin Church the “Liturgy and Sacraments” Forum would be the better place to ask.

 

[cheezey]

Are you wanting to join an Eastern Catholic Church? We do not normatively use the “RCIA” program as such. If you are seeking to join the Latin Church the “Liturgy and Sacraments” Forum would be the better place to ask.

yeah, just noticed that…My oopsy. Sorry!!
and thanks…

 

[cheezey]

Are you wanting to join an Eastern Catholic Church? We do not normatively use the “RCIA” program as such. If you are seeking to join the Latin Church the “Liturgy and Sacraments” Forum would be the better place to ask.

well, while we are at it
how is it different for the Eastern Catholic Church?

 

[theistgal]

More likely you would meet one-on-one with the priest at the church you wanted to join.

 

[Aramis]

RCIA is typically a 6-9 month program ending at Easter Vigil, since that is the only time a Roman pastor may confirm (chrismate) without special one-time faculties.

Adult Eastern Christian formation in Byzantine parishes is usually taught by a combination of private meetings with the priest or deacon and continuing classes for the whole of the parish. It can be anywhere from 3 months to (in one case I’m aware of) over a dozen years. It is concluded when the pastor and the person to be received agree, and they are then baptized and chrismated.

Given that the parishes are smaller, and the number of people finding their way in is smaller per capita, the assembly line mode of classes isn’t needed for most of the Byzantines. Further, many of the new Byzantines are Orthodox or Latin anyway, and so simply have to profess the faith and accept the Papacy.