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Notre Dame Parish
908-104 Avenue
Dawson Creek, BC, V1G 2H7

Notre Dame Parish 908-104 Avenue Dawson Creek, BC, V1G 2H7 Notre Dame Parish 908-104 Avenue Dawson Creek, BC, V1G 2H7 Notre Dame Parish 908-104 Avenue Dawson Creek, BC, V1G 2H7

Mass Times Tuesday to Friday: 11AM Saturday: 7:30PM Sunday: 10AM

Mass Times Tuesday to Friday: 11AM Saturday: 7:30PM Sunday: 10AMMass Times Tuesday to Friday: 11AM Saturday: 7:30PM Sunday: 10AMMass Times Tuesday to Friday: 11AM Saturday: 7:30PM Sunday: 10AMMass Times Tuesday to Friday: 11AM Saturday: 7:30PM Sunday: 10AM

Sacramental Preparation

Baptism

First Reconciliation/Eucharist

First Reconciliation/Eucharist

Phone the parish office three (3) months before the intended date of Baptism


"Baptism is God's most beautiful and magnificent gift....We call it gift, grace, anointing, enlightenment, garment of immortality, bath of rebirth, seal, and most precious gift. It is called gift because it is conferred on those who bring nothing of their own; grace since it is given even to the guilty; Baptism because sin is buried in the water; anointing for it is priestly and royal as are those who are anointed; enlightenment because it radiates light; clothing since it veils our shame; bath because it washes; and seal as it is our guard and the sign of God's Lordship."


- St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 40, 3-4: PG 36, 361C 





First Reconciliation/Eucharist

First Reconciliation/Eucharist

First Reconciliation/Eucharist

Sacramental Preparation 


For children Grades 2 and up


CCC 1446 Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance for all sinful members of his Church: above all for those who, since Baptism, have fallen into grave sin, and have thus lost their baptismal grace and wounded ecclesial communion. It is to them that the sacrament of Penance offers a new possibility to convert and to recover the grace of justification. the Fathers of the Church present this sacrament as "the second plank [of salvation] after the shipwreck which is the loss of grace."47 


 47 Tertullian, De Paenit. 4, 2: PL 1,1343; cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1542. 


Confirmation

First Reconciliation/Eucharist

Order of Christian Inititaion of Adults - OCIA (RCIA/RCIC)

Sacramental Preparation

For children Grades 6 and up  


CCC 1285 Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded. It must be explained to the faithful that the reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace.88 For "by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed."89 


88 Cf. Roman Ritual, Rite of Confirmation (OC), Introduction 1.

89 LG 11; Cf. OC, Introduction 2.


Order of Christian Inititaion of Adults - OCIA (RCIA/RCIC)

Order of Christian Inititaion of Adults - OCIA (RCIA/RCIC)

Order of Christian Inititaion of Adults - OCIA (RCIA/RCIC)

For more information, phone the parish office beginning May 1st.


A Strong Start in the Faith: The Catholic OCIA (RCIA/RCIC) Stages


Thinking of joining the Roman Catholic Church? The Catholic  OCIA stages are a good model of basic faith development. This article  provides some detailed guidance for that process.

So, you’re developing your faith. Great! Is it a little overwhelming?

  • Where to start?
  • Why so many “stages” of initiation?
  • What should I be doing in each stage?
  • How will I know when I’m ready to move forward?

The OCIA stages:

  • Inquiry: the initial period before you decide to  enter the Catholic Church. You’re asking questions and checking it out,  but aren’t yet ready to commit.
  • Catechumenate: those who decide to enter the Church and are being trained for a life in Christ are called catechumens,  an ancient name from the early Church. In this stage, you’re developing  your faith and are being “catechized” – learning catechism, or the  basic points about Catholic faith and life.
  • Purification and preparation: The Church will help  you focus and intensify your faith as you prepare you to commit your  life to Christ and be received into the Church at Easter. If you’re  following the RCIA process, you’ll go through a beautiful series of  Gospel-based meditations during Lent, which is the time frame of this  period.
  • Initiation itself, the culmination of the whole  process! You’re received into the Church during the Easter Vigil Mass,  where you’ll receive the sacraments of initiation: baptism,  confirmation, and Eucharist. (If you’ve already been baptized, you won’t  be baptized again.)
  • Mystagogy: after reception into the Church at  Easter, this period lets you reflect and learn more about the mysteries  of the Mass and the Sacraments that you now participate in fully.


                        - beginningCatholic.com

Marriage

Order of Christian Inititaion of Adults - OCIA (RCIA/RCIC)

Reconciliation

For more information, phone the parish office six (6) months before the intended wedding date.


CCC 1602 Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision of "the wedding-feast of the Lamb."85 Scripture speaks throughout of marriage and its "mystery," its institution and the meaning God has given it, its origin and its end, its various realizations throughout the history of salvation, the difficulties arising from sin and its renewal "in the Lord" in the New Covenant of Christ and the Church.86


85 ⇒ Rev 19:7, 9; cf. ⇒ Gen 1:26-27.
86 ⇒ 1 Cor 7:39; cf. ⇒ Eph 5:31-32.

Reconciliation

Order of Christian Inititaion of Adults - OCIA (RCIA/RCIC)

Reconciliation

Every Saturday from 6:30PM to 7:00PM or by appointment.


CCC 1441 Only God forgives sins.39 Since he is the Son of God, Jesus says of himself, "The Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" and exercises this divine power: "Your sins are forgiven."40Further, by virtue of his divine authority he gives this power to men to exercise in his name.41
CCC 1442 Christ has willed that in her prayer and life and action his whole Church should be the sign and instrument of the forgiveness and reconciliation that he acquired for us at the price of his blood. But he entrusted the exercise of the power of absolution to the apostolic ministry which he charged with the "ministry of reconciliation."
42 The apostle is sent out "on behalf of Christ" with "God making his appeal" through him and pleading: "Be reconciled to God."43


40 ⇒ Mk 2:5, ⇒ 10; ⇒ Lk 7:48.

41 Cf. ⇒ Jn 20:21-23.

42 ⇒ 2 Cor 5:18.

43 ⇒ 2 Cor 5:2 





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