{"id":646,"date":"2017-11-14T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church2\/?page_id=646"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:23:06","slug":"ocia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/our-faith\/ocia\/","title":{"rendered":"OCIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3>Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA)<\/h3>\n<p>Persons interested in learning more about the Catholic faith or becoming Catholic are invited to the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA). OCIA is a process that involves the entire parish in welcoming inquirers to the Catholic faith and initiating catechumens and candidates into the believing community. By participating in the process as inquirers, sponsors, prayers, catechists, or as a welcoming community, each of us is invited to conversion &#8211; to live out the Gospel of Jesus as He lived it.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings will be held weekly on <strong>Tuesdays from 6:00\u20137:20 PM at St. Paul Church<\/strong>, beginning September 8, 2026. For more information, email the church office at: <a href=\"mailto:churchoffice@stpaulmacomb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>churchoffice@stpaulmacomb.com<\/strong><\/a> or (309) 833-2496.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our OCIA participants took part in the Rite of Election the Second Lenten Week at the Cathedral. [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/?p=3207&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":625,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646\/revisions\/4138"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stpaulmacomb.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}