The Catholic People rejoice every time someone decides to join us, or even just look and maybe consider joining us. We welcome you and we are here to help answer all those questions that might result from the call that God is inviting you to follow.
Becoming a Catholic is one of life’s deepest and most joyful experiences. Some, thanks to the faith of our parents, have received baptism as children and along the way we discover the God of our parents. Or maybe not. Lots of things happen along the way.
An adult who is not baptized enters the Catholic community through an initiation process which inclues liturgy (going to Mass), learning ("catechism"), and personal prayer and discernment.
There are people who have been validly baptized in different Christian denominations but who now wish to become part of the Catholic Church.
There are people who were baptizeed Catholics as children but who, somewhere along the way, no longer considered themselves active members for a longer or shorter time.
There are people who have been Catholic all their lives, but who never really learned much about their faith and never received a lot of the sacraments, like, for instance, confirmation.
We invite all these people to follow their call and to be received as full members of the Catholic Church through the holy sacraments of baptism, confirmation, Eucharist and reconciliation. The exact path is different for each person, but we still help each other along the way as a group.
The Catholic parishes of Terre Haute (there are six of them) work together on a preparation program called the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. There are three parts: