This year, 54 students are going through the RCIA program, a preparation process that prepares them for receiving the sacraments of initiation into the Church—baptism, Holy Eucharist, and ...

I started the RCIA program in August 2006. It’s normally a one-year program. At Easter 2007, I hadn’t been in the program long enough to come into the Church.

Fung is one of 11 catechumens and candidates for the RCIA in the English-speaking section of that parish. Assunta Januarius, one of the facilitators at the RCIA program, said it was clear that Fung’s ...