What we'll explore

The mysteries the Church has loved for centuries.

Themes Catholics ordinarily study in OCIA. Weekly class topics are set with the Religious Education office.

Who is God?
An introduction to the God who reveals Himself — not as an idea, but as a living mystery who seeks communion with us.
Who is Jesus Christ?
The Incarnation, the Cross, and the Resurrection: why the Church proclaims Jesus as Lord.
The Trinity
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — one God in three Persons, the central mystery of Christian faith.
The Holy Spirit
The Spirit who gives life, dwells in the Church, and leads each person into truth.

What is the Church?
More than a building or a gathering — the Church as mystery, communion, and sacrament of salvation.
The Apostolic Tradition
What has been handed down from the apostles, and why it still lives in the Church today.
The Magisterium
How the Church teaches with authority — and why that authority is meant to serve the truth.
The Sacraments
Visible signs of invisible grace: an overview of the sacramental economy.

Baptism
New birth in Christ, the doorway of the Christian life, and the forgiveness of sin.
Confirmation
Strengthened by the Holy Spirit for witness, mission, and a mature Christian life.
Eucharist
The Real Presence, the sacrifice of the Mass, and holy communion with Christ and His Church.
Reconciliation
Confession as healing, mercy, and the restoration of baptismal grace.
Anointing of the Sick
Christ's tenderness toward the suffering, and the sacrament of strength in illness.
Holy Orders
The priesthood, diaconate, and episcopacy as a gift for the Church's life.
Marriage
The covenant of man and woman as a living sign of Christ's love for the Church.

The Ten Commandments
Not a list of burdens, but a path of freedom and love of God and neighbor.
Virtue
The cardinal and theological virtues as habits that form a holy life.
Sin
What sin is, what it does, and why the Church speaks of it with both honesty and hope.
Grace
God's own life offered to us — unearned, transforming, and always first.
Christian discipleship
Following Christ in ordinary life: work, family, charity, and the call to holiness.

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