Do you know anyone who would like to learn more about the Catholic Church?  Do you know anyone who has expressed an interest in joining the Catholic Faith?  If so, RCIA is the way to go.

RCIA stands for Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.  RCIA in for those unbaptized, those baptized in another Christian Faith, or for those baptized Catholic but have not received the Sacraments of Eucharist and Confirmation.

RCIA meets weekly, beginning in September.  Each session  focuses on an aspect of the Catholic Faith.  Our pastoral staff and a dedicated team of parishioners coordinate the process.  RCIA   concludes on Holy Saturday with baptism and admission to the faith. 

Please share this information about St Charles RCIA with those you think might be interested.  Those who join the RCIA process each year are drawn from non-Catholics who have been married to a Catholic spouse, those non-Catholics engaged to a Catholic, or family and friends of Catholics.

No long-term commitment is requested at this time -- just "come and see."               

If interested, or for more information, please contact Fr Kevin Fox at the Parish Office (440-884-3030).

RCIA is designed for adults who, after hearing the mystery of Christ proclaimed, consciously and freely seek the living God and enter the way of faith and conversion as the Holy Spirit opens their hearts.  The importance of  RCIA is not simply “joining the Catholic Church.”  By exploring the teachings of the Church, and  experiencing St. Charles faith community’s dedication to living and growing in Christ together, we pray that a person’s heart will be opened to, and remain rooted in, the loving grace of God.

2022




It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
Pope St. John Paul II


We have come to believe in God's love: in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being Christian is not the result of  an  ethical  choice  or  a  lofty  idea,  but  the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.
Pope Benedict XVI Deus Caritas Est

These  words  from  two  modern Supreme  Pontiffs  of  the  Catholic Church encompass the heart of the RCIA process. If you or someone you know  has  a  desire  to  look  more intently at the longings of the human heart and how we as Catholics see our faith in Jesus satisfying every aching longing written into the fiber of your being: please, please, reach out to me to inquire more about the RCIA process, to come and ask questions, to learn what it is to be a Catholic Christian.

Our gatherings will be resuming on Sunday, the 18th of September after the 10:00AM Mass in the *Parish Activity Center (located at the other end of the parking lot from the Church).

For those who are already a fully initiated Catholic and are wondering if you, too, can come and explore those longings of your heart...yes. I, and our entire team, would love for you to join our conversation. I will be publishing the prospective conversation topics the week beforehand so you can decide on a weekly basis if you are interested in joining.
 

Yours in Christ, Fr. Kevin J. Fox

440-884-3030

frkevin@stcharlesonline.org