Rite Path

About this app

What Rite Path does

Rite Path is the first app built for the OCIA journey itself — the year-long, multi-stage road an adult walks into the Catholic Church. It is not another Bible, audio, or daily-prayer app. It is the structured tracker that finally replaces the pen-and-paper notes most catechumens keep, holding your stages, your rites, your sponsor meetings, your questions, and the unfamiliar words you hit every week. A record 59,842 U.S. adults entered the catechumenate at the 2026 Easter Vigil — up 81% since 2018, three-quarters under 40, more than a third former "Nones" walking in with no family scaffolding to lean on. The devotional apps (Hallow, Ascension, My Catholic Life) are content and audio; none of them track where you are in the process, what rite comes next, or when you last met your sponsor. Generic to-do apps carry none of the domain knowledge. Rite Path fills that gap. What ships in v1: — Stage tracker. The five OCIA stages — Inquiry, Catechumenate, Purification & Enlightenment, the Easter Vigil, and Mystagogy — laid out as a path you advance through, so you always know where you are and what's next. — Rites schedule. Log the specific rites you receive (Acceptance, the Scrutinies, Election, the Sacraments of Initiation) with the dates they happen, building a record of your year. — Sponsor-meeting log. Note every meeting with your sponsor or catechist — when you met, what you talked about, what was assigned. — Questions queue. A running list of things to ask. Jot a question the moment it surfaces; mark it answered when it's addressed. — Reflection journal. A per-session entry to write down what landed, what stirred, what you're still wrestling with. Timestamped and yours. — Glossary. A built-in, fully offline dictionary of catechumenate terms — catechumen, candidate, scrutiny, mystagogy, neophyte and more — so a new word never stops you. Free, no account, on-device. Your reflections, questions, and meeting notes never leave your phone. No ads, no sign-in, nothing mined. Rite Path is for any adult journeying into a liturgical church who wants the road mapped instead of guessed.