RCIA class

1. RITE OF
CHRISTIAN
INITIATION
FOR ADULTS
THE SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION

2. THE INITIAL PROCESS OF
BECOMING CATHOLIC
HOLY
BAPTISM CONFIRMATION
EUCHARIST

3. EVERY MAN IS BORN
• In order for man to be perfected three things
must occur:
1. Generation – or birth.
2. Growth
3. Nourishment – or food
• Collins, p. 120

4. In the spiritual realm man is perfected by …
1. His birth into the Catholic Faith by his baptism
2. His strengthening in his faith by his confirmation
3. His nourishing his faith by the Holy Eucharist

5. SACRAMENT OF
BAPTISM
The exterior washing
which takes place
when the water is
poured in Baptism
represents that interior
cleansing which takes
away sin by virtue of the
Sacrament of Baptism
(Collins, p. 124)

6. SACRAMENT OF
CONFIRMATION
• The effect of Confirmation is that the Holy Spirit is imparted to
give strength, just as He was given to the Apostles on the day of
Pentecost.
• The Christian must boldly confess the name of Christ.
• The one who is confirmed is anointed on the forehead wherein
is the seat of fear; so that he will not blush to confess either
the name of Christ or especially the cross of Christ, which to the
Jews was a scandal and to the pagans foolishness.
• For this reason he is signed with the sign of the cross.
• (Collins, p. 124)

7. SACRAMENT OF THE
HOLY EUCHARIST
First, in the very consecration of the The second effect is the union of man
Sacrament, since in virtue of the with Christ, as He himself says:
above words bread is changed into
the Body of Christ, and wine into "He that eateth My Flesh, and
His Blood; so that Christ is entirely drinketh My Blood, abideth in
contained under the appearances Me, and I in him."
of bread which remain without a And since man is incorporated with
subject; and Christ is entirely Christ and united to His members
contained under the appearances of through grace, it follows that through
wine. this Sacra- nt grace is increased in
those who receive it worthily
Under each part of the con-
secrated Host and of the
consecrated wine, Christ is totally
present even after the separation
is made (Collins, p. 125).

8. WORKS CITED
• Catholic Church. Catechism of the Catholic Church..
• 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice V aticana;
Washington, DC: United States Catholic
Conference, 1997
• Joseph B. Collins, Ph.D. S.S., D.D. “The Catechetical
• Instruction of St. Thomas Aquinas” NewYork
• N.Y. Joseph Wagner, Inc. 1939