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By CNA Staff, Nov 18, 2021
Denver Newsroom, Nov 18, 2021 / 16:32 pm – The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, or RCIA, as it has been more commonly referred to, will have its name changed to Order of Christian Initiation for Adults, or OCIA, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops decided this week.
The name change applies both to the process by which one enters the Church and the book that contains the ritual text and prayers for those steps.
Following the trend of updating all liturgical texts to reflect greater fidelity to the original Latin, the U.S. bishops, meeting in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly, approved on Nov. 17 a revised English edition of the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. The English version passed 215-0 with two abstentions. …
