{"id":478,"date":"2017-08-16T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stmarkstlukeparish.org\/home\/?p=478"},"modified":"2017-10-02T04:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:30:42","slug":"r-c-i-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmarkstlukeparish.org\/home\/r-c-i-a\/","title":{"rendered":"R.C.I.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a program designed for those people interested in becoming Catholics, those who are inquiring about the Catholic Faith, and those Catholics who want to know more about their faith. Now is the time to plan. Do you know of someone you can invite to learn about our faith and perhaps even become Catholic? Each Catholic has an important role to play in sharing our Catholic faith. Inviting people to our R.C.I.A. classes is a special way to do your part. Classes will begin this fall. Please call the office 597-2705 with questions or to sign up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a program designed for those people interested in becoming Catholics, those who are inquiring about the Catholic Faith, and those Catholics who want to know more about their faith. Now is the time to plan. Do you know of someone you can invite to learn about our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stmarkstlukeparish.org\/home\/r-c-i-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">R.C.I.A.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-c-i-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ZI4x-7I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9425,"url":"https:\/\/www.stmarkstlukeparish.org\/home\/cross-catholic-outreach-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":478,"position":0},"title":"A Special Guest Is Coming from Cross Catholic Outreach on the weekend of May 17-18","author":"StMarkStLukeParish","date":"May 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Fr. 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