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 Christ the King Catholic Church of Dallas - RCIA - 2015-2016 Season

This page contains the recordings of the RCIA classes in the 2015-2016 season. The recordings presented below are for anyone who missed any of the live presentations of any of the sessions or would like to review the material again. Click here for the recording from the 2016-2017 season.

Recorded Audio Lectures

Below are the audio recordings from the class sessions at CTK.

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Getting to the playlist: all recordings from this season are included in the playlist. If you want to access something other than the current week, when the media is playing, you will see the playlist icon in the media player's toolbar (it is the "files" icon.) Click on the icon and all of the older recordings from the current season will be shown.

Recorded Skype Session with Fr. Kevin O'Neil

The video below is the recording of the Skype session with Father Kevin. The quality of the video and its occasional skips are the results of an uneven Internet connection between us. 

About This Course

The RCIA, which stands for Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, is a process through which non-baptized men and women enter the Catholic Church. It includes several stages marked by study, prayer and rites at Mass. Participants in the RCIA are known as catechumens. They undergo a process of conversion as they study the Gospel, profess faith in Jesus and the Catholic Church, and receive the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and Holy Eucharist. The RCIA process follows the ancient practice of the church and was restored by the Second Vatican Council as the normal way adults prepare for baptism.

The three sacraments of Christian initiation - Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist - closely combine to bring us, the faithful of Christ, to his full stature and to enable us to carry out the mission of the entire people of God in the Church and in the world.

If a person has been baptized in another Christian tradition, the initiation process prepares you to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church by celebrating the sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist or Holy Communion.

  • Baptism - Baptism incorporates us into Christ and forms us into God’s people. This first sacrament pardons all our sins, rescues us from the power of darkness and brings us to the dignity of adopted children, a new creation through water and the Holy Spirit.
  • Confirmation - Hence we are called and are indeed the children of God. By signing us with the gift of the Spirit, confirmation makes us more completely the image of the Lord and fills us with the Holy Spirit, so that we may bear witness to him before all the world and work to bring the Body of Christ to its fullness as soon as possible.
  • Eucharist (Holy Communion) - Finally, coming to the table of the Eucharist, we eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man so that we may have eternal life and show forth the unity of God’s people. By offering ourselves with Christ, we share in the universal sacrifice, that is, the entire community of the redeemed offered to God by their High Priest, and we pray for a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit, so that the whole human race may be brought into the unity of God’s family.