Becoming an adult Catholic

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My husband finally agreed to attend Church with our lovely children and is, to his surprise, enjoying it.
We're interested in exploring how he might become more fully involved and I;ve been trying to work out the process for an adult to join the Church but am utterly perplexed and confused! He's Christian by upbringing but non-baptised (he's from an evangelical background)....
Can anyone help?

I'm not a Roman Catholic, but from seeing answers to other threads on this sort of topic, I think you should talk to your parish priest. There is a course (called, I think RCIA) that is specifically for adults who want to find out more about or join the RC church, your priest should know about this. And I'm sure he would want to welcome your husband and encourage him to attend and to explore the faith.

Hope that helps -- and good luck. It sounds like a wonderful thing.

At our church they have a Journey of Faith course for people who want to become catholic or who would like to explore their faith further. At the end if this they can be baptised if they choose.

Hey :) At my Church (Anglican, Church in Wales) the priest does offer classes to people who want to become baptised and then confirmed but prefers it if they just turn up to church as he then writes his sermons specifically in mind of the things that you would learn at the classes. I agree with a previous poster though, talk to your parish priest and hopefully he/she is as lovely and friendly as others that I have met. Good luck and hth.

The process, as niminypiminy said, is called RCIA. But small parishes might not do it as a course if they have few converts. That might be why you haven't seen it advertised.

Talk to the priest and the process will be one of:
a) a structured RCIA course in the parish, leading to baptism at Easter
b) a one-to-one series of meetings with the priest, if there aren't enough people to warrant a course
c) some parishes join together and run RCIA courses between two-four local parishes.

The actual organisation will all be explained by your priest, but the basic idea is that people are prepared in the parish, including the gathering of paperwork; presented to the diocese as candidates during Lent (usually in the Cathedral); and baptised at the Easter Vigil.

In my parish we currently have six adults preparing for reception into the church. They will complete their initiation at Easter with a big ceremony at midnight Mass. Talk to your priest about the route your DH could take.

Wow, This thread has opened my eyes! I didn't realise quite how different Anglican/Catholic traditions were but the latter sounds lovely! Good luck OP x

At one particular Sunday mass all year coming up to Easter the candidates are invited to the altar and the congregation joins the priest in blessing them and sending them forth after the gospel. They go to their class, led out by the parish adult initiation person carrying the gospel book, while the congregation sings a verse of encouragement. So everyone gets to recognise them and say a friendly word if you run into them. Not sure how it goes in other parishes.