There are 80(!) people in my parish’s OCIA cohort, many of them students at the very fancy local university.

@ablerism You threw me a little with that. I’d always heard it called RCIA.

My parish has the heaviest student (Purdue U) attendance ever, even though we’re sited miles from campus and on no bus route. Many catechumens as we call them.

Something good is going on amid the evil in the land.

@ReaderJohn Yes indeed. Hanging onto that, despite all.

@ablerism What does OCIA mean?

@wcaleb Order of Christian Initiation for Adults — aka RCIA (where Rite is the first word). A Sept-Easter class for adults planning to enter the RCC.

@ablerism Thanks.

@bethanyh Right?!