March 2024 RCIA Newsletter

RCIA Newsletter

March 2024

Dear Parish Coordinator of the Catechumenate,

As we continue to journey through the holy season of Lent and prepare to celebrate the Holy Triduum, let us reflect on these words from scripture:

Brothers and sisters:

Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus

were baptized into his death?

We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death,

so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead

by the glory of the Father,

we too might live in newness of life.

For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his,

we shall also be united with him in the resurrection.

Romans 6: 3-4

And so let us continue to pray for our Elect and Candidates as they approach their celebration of the sacraments of Christian initiation:

Lord God, source of unfailing light,

by the death and resurrection of Christ

you have cast out the darkness of hatred and lies

and poured forth the light of truth and love

upon the human family.

Hear our prayers for our elect (and candidates),

whom you have called to by your adopted children.

Enable them to pass from darkness to light

and, delivered from the prince of darkness,

to live always as children of the light.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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May our catechumens always remember the day of their election and be grateful for the blessings they have received from heaven.

May our candidates continue to grow in their baptismal vocation.

May their teachers, sponsors and godparents be living examples of the Gospel.

…and may all their fellow parishioners, families and friends continue to help them follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Archdiocesan Rite of Election

First Sunday of Lent - February 18, 2024

We congratulate the over 300 new members of the elect from the parishes listed below who participated in the Archdiocesan Rite of Election ceremony at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the First Sunday of Lent, February 18, 2024 with our Vicar General, Msgr. Joseph LaMorte.

We thank everyone who participated in this year’s Archdiocesan Rite of Election. It was a great testimony to the work of the Holy Spirit within our many parish communities throughout the Archdiocese of New York.

And so, to show his ongoing pastoral support and concern for our Elect, His Eminence, Cardinal Timothy Dolan invites all Archdiocesan Neophytes and newly confirmed RCIA candidates and newly received to the annual Archdiocesan Neophyte Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the sixth Sunday of Easter, May 5, 2024 at 10:15am.

For more information on the Archdiocesan Neophyte Mass please go to: https://archny.org/ministries-and-offices/adult-faith-formation/catechumenate-rcia/rcia-neophyte-mass/

Participating Parishes in the 2024 Rite of Election

St. Agnes, Manhattan
Annunciation, Manhattan
Ascension, Manhattan
Assumption, Peekskill
Blessed Sacrament, Manhattan
Christ the King, Bronx
Corpus Christi and Notre Dame, Manhattan
Good Shepherd, Manhattan
Holy Cross, Bronx
Holy Family, Staten Island
Holy Family, Blessed Sacrament, and St. John Vianney, Bronx
Holy Name of Jesus and St. Gregory the Great, Manhattan
Holy Rosary, Staten Island
Holy Spirit, Bronx
Holy Trinity, Manhattan
Immaculate Conception, Stony Point
Immaculate Conception (150th Street), Bronx
Immaculate Conception (Gun Hill Road), Bronx
Immaculate Conception, Manhattan
Incarnation, Manhattan
Our Lady of Angels, Bronx
Our Lady of Good Counsel and
St Peter St. Paul and Assumption, Staten Island
Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard – St. Veronica, Manhattan
Our Lady of Mount Carmel – St. Benedicta and St. Mary of the Assumption, Staten Island
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Bronx
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Elmsford
Our Lady of Sorrows, Manhattan
Our Lady Star of the Sea, Staten Island
Our Saviour – Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary – St. Stephen – Our Lady of the Scapular, Manhattan
Sacred Heart – and St. Patrick, Monroe

Sacred Heart, Yonkers
St. Ann, Staten Island
St. Augustine, New City
St. Brigid – St. Emeric, Manhattan
St. Cecilia and Holy Agony, Manhattan
St. Christopher and St. Margaret Mary, Staten Island
St. Clare, Staten Island
St. Elizabeth, Manhattan
St. Frances of Rome, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anthony,
Our Lady of Grace, and St. Mary, Bronx
St. Francis of Assisi, Manhattan
St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan
St. Helena, Bronx
St. Ignatius Loyola, Manhattan
St. John Bosco, Port Chester
St. John the Evangelist and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, White Plains
St. Joseph – St. Thomas and St. John Neumann, Staten Island
St. Joseph – Immaculate Conception, Millbrook
St. Joseph, Bronxville
St. Joseph (Greenwich Village), Manhattan
St. Mary, Mother of the Church, Fishkill
St. Michael Archangel, the Bronx
St. Monica, St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Stephen of Hungary, Manhattan
St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Bronx
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Manhattan
St. Paul the Apostle, Manhattan
St. Peter – Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Victory -St. Andrew, Manhattan
St. Raymond, Bronx
St. Simon of Stock and St. Joseph, Bronx
St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena, Manhattan
Transfiguration and St. James – St. Joseph, Manhattan