Meet Rite Path — Your journey into the Church, one stage at a time

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Rite Path

Your journey into the Church, one stage at a time.

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.

A look inside

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What's inside

• Stage tracker — Advance through the five OCIA stages — Inquiry, Catechumenate, Purification & Enlightenment, Easter Vigil, Mystagogy — always knowing where you are and what's next
• Rites schedule — Log the specific rites received (Acceptance, Scrutinies, Election, Sacraments of Initiation) with their dates, building a record of the year
• Sponsor log — Record every sponsor or catechist meeting — date, topics discussed, assignments
• Questions queue — Capture questions to ask the moment they surface; mark each answered when addressed
• Reflection journal — A timestamped per-session entry for what landed and what you're still wrestling with
• Glossary — Fully offline dictionary of catechumenate terms so an unfamiliar word never stops you

Why we built it

A record 59,842 U.S. adults entered the catechumenate at the 2026 Easter Vigil (up 81% since 2018, 75% under 40, 38% former 'Nones'), and they walk a confusing year-long multi-stage process — stages, dated rites, sponsor meetings, unfamiliar terms — with no app for the journey itself, so most resort to pen-and-paper n…

What makes it different

Rite Path is the only app that tracks the OCIA process itself: the five stages, the dated rites received, the sponsor-meeting log, a questions-to-ask queue, a per-session reflection journal, and an offline glossary of convert terms. Hallow, Ascension, and My Catholic Life are devotional/audio content (Hallow is subscr…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their gear, and their offline life.

In one line: Your journey into the Church, one stage at a time.

Try it

See the Rite Path app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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