The Stages RCIA

The process of catechetical, ascetical, and liturgical preparation that is included in RCIA can be broken up into several stages, marked by some very beautiful rites.

• Period of Evangelization and Precatechumenate
• Period of the Catechumenate
• Period of Purification and Enlightenment
• Christ in the Desert, Kramskoy
• The period of Purification and Enlightenment

Celebration of the Sacraments of Initiation