About Journey in Faith

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.)

also known as Journey in Faith

The Journey in Faith group at Sacred Heart Hillsborough is a gathering of people who are interested in knowing more about the Catholic Church. Some are enquirers who are thinking about becoming members of the Church in due course. Some are parishioners who support the enquirers by sharing their experience of what it means to them to belong to this community of faith.

We cover a range of topics fundamental to the Church’s life and mission, and an important element in our conversation is listening to each other’s questions. We often find a breadth of responses linked to our understanding of Holy Scripture, the teaching of the Church, and the fruit of our own experiences of life.

A typical programme includes:

  • Human experience and the search for meaning reflected in the Old Testament
  • Hopes realised in the life and words of Jesus Christ
  • Teaching of Jesus fulfilled in His death and resurrection
  • Jesus lives on in His Church and the Scriptures through the Holy Spirit
  • Making sense of suffering, and social justice
  • Relationship with God through Prayer
  • The Church continues Christ’s saving work through Baptism
  • Confirmation
  • Eucharist (the Mass)
  • Reconciliation (Confession)

If you are interested in coming to see without obligation, please call 0114 2343580 or email sacredheart479@gmail.com.

Quotations for Reflection

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay…

…Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”

— Teilhard de Chardin

“We have to learn to live both in the world as-it-is and the world as-it-should-be. One is power; the other is love. Power without love is brutality, but love without power is soon mere sentimentality…”

…“The genius of biblical faith is the grace to keep one foot in both camps at the same time: the world as it is and the world as it should be.”

— Richard Rohr