The Rite of Election and Lent

     The First Sunday of Lent is the Sunday the Diocese of Covington

celebrates the Rite of Election at the Cathedral. This Rite is for the R.C.I.A. in the parishes when the catechumens and candidates, with their sponsors and R.C.I.A. teams, gather for this prayer service. Those who are catechumens (who are not baptized) are now called the “elect” after this rite, and they add their names to the Book of the Elect of the diocese. Those who are already baptized, the candidates, are called to continuing conversion.

     On the third, fourth and fifth Sundays in Lent, the elect will take part in the scrutinies. These scrutinies are special blessings for the elect to deliver them from sin and evil.

     Lent is a special time to recall our own baptism and what it means to share in the resurrection of Jesus.

      Sr. Barbara Woeste, OSB