The Catholic Church warmly welcomes new members and seeks to provide appropriate spiritual formation according to each person's age and needs. Most Catholics are baptized as infants. A child to be baptized who has reached the catechetical age (the age of reason, age 7), will receive preparation in a catechetical process called the Order of Christian Initiation Adapted for Children, which meets on Sundays, similar to the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA). Upon attaining sufficient understanding, the child will receive the full complement of the Sacraments of Initiation — Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist — at the Easter Vigil.

Those children already baptized in other Christian communities will enter into a catechetical process called Order of Christian Initiation Adapted for Children, which meets on Sundays to make a profession of faith and be received into the Catholic Church and will receive the Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist in the Rite of Reception into Full Communion with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil.

For more information, please see the link at right for Order of Christian Initiation for Adults (OCIA) or contact us at 972-661-9282 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..