Others cite loneliness or a need for an authentic and supportive community. These motivations are often combined, and many persons mention more than one. About 15 percent of all parishes implement a full-year R.C.I.A. process. A further 46 percent have a nine-month R.C.I.A. Other models of initiation are used in 19 percent of parishes. About 17 percent have no adult rite of initiation at all.
People speak about the R.C.I.A. being a process.
The R.C.I.A. is not a rigid, defined program. It must always be adaptable to the pastoral needs of a given person and a community. The R.C.I.A. process reaches out to individual hearts by expressing the invitation of Christ through the unique identity of respective communities. The R.C.I.A. process is necessarily adapted to the different path each type of participant is following. Every effort is made to respect the dignity of baptism and the needs of each person within the initiation process.