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Posted on 03/12/2008 3:52:30 PM PDT by NYer
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Welcome!
So we should be ready to nail the door shut. (joke)
our parish has 50 in RCIA this year
our parish has 50 in RCIA this year
Number me as one who went the other direction. 40 years and absolutely no regrets.
Interesting. I am sure I saw that poll recently where the Catholic growth in the US is mainly through Catholics coming in from South and Central America, and amongst the native US parishioners there is nearly a static situation, with as many coming in as going out.
I know that the local CC has been flooded by Hispanics, (their parking lot is right next to my church) and the few whites are mostly older couples.
This Easter vigil will be my tenth year as a Catholic. Best decision I ever made (next to marrying my wife, of course).
I became a Catholic two years ago. There were over fifty adults plus a couple of teens in my class. No Hispanics.
My husband became a Catholic last Easter. Not quite as large a group as mine, about 40. Again, no Hispanics.
Th Church has been a comfort and a joy for me. My all who worship this Easter find the same joy, whatever their church may be.
No doubt you’ll be able to post a link to that poll so (1) the methodology can be checked and (2) we can find out if you’re being truthful.
**According to early figures from the 2007 Official Catholic Directory, last year almost 64,500 adults were baptized in the Catholic Church and nearly 93,000 came into full communion.**
Amazing numbers!
Many of these people who were baptized Catholic are recognizing that they STILL are Catholic.
We are welcoming them back with open arms.
And many of their family members are also being baptized now as adults. Also their children are being baptized. We have a whole family coming into the Catholic Church at our parish. Two years ago both the mother and father and two teenagers joined the Catholic Church!
How many families in your parish?
I have at least one gentleman coming into the RCC in my parish church community. Be it 1 or 50, it is truly a miracle.
Rather not a surge, but a flood of baby boomers who are Catholic as they see their parents pass on and have to deal with all the issues of aging.
But do not cancel out that thanks to the RCIA and the efforts of JPII and B16 to have also the “youth”, people between the ages of 16-40 step up to the plate as well as the Hispanics. This is the effects of the famous “JPII generation” for also seeing a resurge of the RCC in the USA.
Yet
I left and came back, If you seek truth, really seek the entire deposit of truth and faith, the only place you will find it is in the Catholic Church.
I will pray for you.
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