Become Catholic (OCIA)

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"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure;
to find Him, the great human achievement."
(St. Augustine)
- What is Catholicism (OCIA)
- The What is Catholicism course (otherwise known as OCIA) gives you the opportunity to explore Catholic teaching and ritual through conversation, prayer, and study in community with your peers. This course is for adults and children over 7 years old.
  
  Classes meet weekly from September-April on Tuesdays at 6:30 PM at St. Monica St. George (Tuesday is our main session; there is a secondary session on Sunday nights at 6:30pm for those who can't make Tuesday). The first class for the 2025/2026 year is on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
  
  Participants who complete the whole course can be initiated into the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil Mass with the celebration of the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist.
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- Already Catholic and Interested in Learning More About Your Faith?
  
  If you are already Catholic and would like to learn more about your Catholic faith, you are also welcomed to sign up for one of the four quarters of the course (as seen on the flyer; or email office@uptowncatholic.org to request the flyer that lays out the four quarters):
  Q1) Who Is Jesus? Q2) The Church, The Mass, The Saints Q3) The Sacraments Q4) Morality & Social Teaching
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“Late have I loved You, beauty so old and so new.
You were within and I was in the external world and sought You there,
and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which You made.
You were with me, and I was not with You.
The lovely things kept me far from You, though if they did not have their existence in You, they had no existence at all.

You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness.
You put to flight my blindness.
You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you.
You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is Yours.

You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”

-St. Augustine