What Is The Rite of Election?
The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion will be celebrated on Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 3:00 PM in St. Joseph (1802 Tulane Ave., New Orleans) and Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:00 PM in Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church (501 Holy Trinity Dr., Covington).
To facilitate the smooth, dignified conduct of these celebrations, we have made some changes this year to our registration procedure and the ritual itself.
One important difference is that we will not be reserving pews for groups by parish.*At the appropriate time in each celebration, catechumens and their sponsors will be called forward and a member of the archdiocesan event team, not a parish RCIA team member, will read their name aloud as they are welcomed into the sanctuary by Archbishop Aymond. Then, the candidates for full communion and their sponsors will follow.
The deadline for submitting this information was Thursday, February 14. If there is a last-minute addition to your parish, please contact Walter Bonam, Associate Director for Evangelization and the Catechumenate, at 504-861-6273 or wbonam@arch-no.org.
If you have any questions, we invite you to contact Walter Bonam as well. We look forward to sharing in this special moment in your parish’s faith journey with you!
* Participants from the same parish are certainly welcome to coordinate their arrival and to seek pew space together in the church. However, we would ask you to be considerate of all those taking part in the Rite by not attempting to “save a space” in a pew already occupied by participants from another parish!