{"id":48,"date":"2016-05-10T05:34:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T05:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/49.143.225.216\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T01:04:18","slug":"becoming-catholic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/becoming-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Discover the Catholic Faith<br><\/strong>If you are new to the Catholic faith, or if you have been away from the Catholic faith and would like to rediscover the faith, we are here to support you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adult Christian Initiation<br><\/strong>The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is the formal process for adults who are seeking to be baptised. Once accepted as a candidate for the Sacraments of Christian Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist), the adult candidates, who are now called catechumens, meet with the parish sacramental co-ordinator. There is no set program as the formation depends on the background of each catechumen. The period of formation usually lasts several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact our Sacramental Co-ordinator, Matthew on 02 9660 1407 or email <a href=\"mailto:admin@bbjcatholicparishes.org.au\">admin@bbjcatholicparishes.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Catholic FaithIf you are new to the Catholic faith, or if you have been away from the Catholic faith and would like to rediscover the faith, we are here to support you. Adult Christian InitiationThe Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is the formal process for adults who are seeking to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-05 10:33:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjames-stbede.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}