New American Catholics describe their road to faith
Twenty-five children and adults prepared for full communion through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
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Everybody has a story. But not every group of people going through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) together has traveled such varied paths to the Catholic Church as those who prepared for the Easter Vigil this year at St. Mary and St. Michael parishes in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Twenty-five children and adults prepared for full communion with the church through those parishes' shared RCIA process.
That number -- a fivefold jump over last year -- included a 9-year-old boy whose family didn't practice any faith. Yet he said he has known "since before he was born" that he wanted to become Catholic. He even influenced his mother to join the church with him. "I'm his first convert," she said.