By Catholic Stewardship Consultants www.CatholicSteward.com Keith and Robynne Adams have been parishioners at St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea for years. While they had attended Mass on and off for more than two decades, during the COVID-19 pandemic something shifted — the Holy Spirit began working on their hearts. They started attending more regularly, and Robynne […]
New technology lab will benefit religious education, OCIA classes
Special to the Herald Sacred Heart Church in Waianae celebrated the sacramental blessing of a small technology lab for its religious education and OCIA classes on May 5. The iMac computers were donated by Iolani School in Honolulu to a local nonprofit that reconfigured their software for internet use and donated them to Sacred Heart. […]
RCIA is now ‘OCIA’: What’s behind name change?
By Daniel Meloy Catholic News Service IRA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — For anyone interested in becoming Catholic, wishing to complete the sacraments or wanting to learn more about what the church teaches, the answer for decades was “join RCIA.” The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the process by which the church brings in new converts […]