Catechumenate

What is the Catechumenate? What does it entail? Who does it entail? Is it good or bad? Does it relate to the Easter Vigil today? If it does it so, how does it relate to the Eastern Vigil today?

Catechumenate is a process that involves four steps. It is a process that allows all to partake in God. It is the process that allows you to learn and acquire faith, and once accomplished, eventually become a member of the Catholic Church. However, it is only offered to those who have never been baptised. In effect, by undergoing this process at its completion it allows one to experience the three Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist. Once all these Sacraments have been completed these people are officially in full unity with the Church.

It is not a sin to have to have gone through it as one may have previously not been exposed to or had the opportunity to receive these blessings or the ability to have faith. Although, in participating and realizing and understanding the Church and the faith it requires to be in communion with it is comes to great benefit as you become in communion with God by doing so. It shows that in doing so there is not a rejection of God but rather an acceptance to God just as God intended when he sent Christ to reveal his message and convert people in faith and belief of God. Therefore, the completion of catechumenate is not a sin but rather the opposite.

This is similar to the Easter Vigil because those who believe and shown faith in Christ are once again, just like the original occurrence, showing their desire for Christ and realize the grace and sacrifice in which he experienced for our salvation. It is a reminder of the establishment of the Church and the purposes in which it was for. On top of that, it shows the step forward that is remembered at the Easter Vigil, the step forward and progress the Church made in order to further aim to accomplish the mission of God which continues today.