Your experiences in facilitating RCIA

[anon53744415]

.My circumstance is that I have been through RCIA and was baptized confirmed and received Holy Communion Easter 2014. In my experience subjectively rather than objectively, RCIA was most valuable to me, and well worth the time and I am eternally thankful to those RCIA leaders and sponsors who assisted my development.

On the other hand during that same period my wife converted her friend to evangelical protestant, she went to church one week, put up her hand to the sinners prayer, took the bread and grape juice, and never returned.

It is like marriage. You don’t just see someone say let’s get married and go back to living your own life. Tick done that in life. It takes time to love. The Catholic Church I now love, the evangelical church I attended for 18 years I was just a member of a club.

Sorry hope that makes sense.

It makes all sort of sense. I was in the UMC until I left it last year (or maybe, to use an old saying, they left me). I’m still in RCIA (a very good, orthodox program that I like and find invaluable). I’ve been in both and my experience was Protestantism was “easy,” Catholicism is “hard.” I think that being easy to get into and easy to be in is a big part of the appeal to Protestantism. With sola scriptura and sola fide in place that leaves a lot of time to build mega-church entertainment complexes and put on those big musical numbers every week. Catholicism for me is more challenging. It’s harder to get into, more demanding to be in. But it’s also much deeper and fuller, with a history that goes back to Jesus and the Apostles themselves (which is part of the reason for RCIA in the first place; you need something like that to even begin to understand the Catholic faith). If attending a Protestant church works for someone that’s great, but I wanted something more than what I was getting and I’ve found it in the CC.

 

[Darryl_B]

It makes all sort of sense. I was in the UMC until I left it last year (or maybe, to use an old saying, they left me). I’m still in RCIA (a very good, orthodox program that I like and find invaluable). I’ve been in both and my experience was Protestantism was “easy,” Catholicism is “hard.” I think that being easy to get into and easy to be in is a big part of the appeal to Protestantism. With sola scriptura and sola fide in place that leaves a lot of time to build mega-church entertainment complexes and put on those big musical numbers every week. Catholicism for me is more challenging. It’s harder to get into, more demanding to be in. But it’s also much deeper and fuller, with a history that goes back to Jesus and the Apostles themselves (which is part of the reason for RCIA in the first place; you need something like that to even begin to understand the Catholic faith). If attending a Protestant church works for someone that’s great, but I wanted something more than what I was getting and I’ve found it in the CC.

Amen, my friend, amen.