PARISH CATECHISM CLASSES 2023 – 2024
 

Regular catechism classes are held on Sunday mornings at 10:15 am in the parish hall and classrooms.  We follow the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies liturgically-based faith formation program that provides weekly handouts with a short description of the Sunday Gospel plus suggested activities and discussion starters for each age level.  This faith formation program has materials divided into the following age groups:  SEEDS (Preschool), PROMISE (Kindergarten – Grade 1), GOOD NEWS (Grades 2-3), VENTURE (GRADES 4-6) and VISIONS (Grades 7-8 and up).  To register your children and/or if you are willing to help out, please contact Sharon Camier (our Pastoral Assistant).

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
Spring 2021

PREPARATION MEETING
FOR PARENTS/GUARDIANS AND CHILDREN

Please note that parents (guardians) and children
who soon will be preparing for First Reconciliation and First Eucharist
are asked to attend a meeting on
Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.
or
Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.
downstairs in the parish hall.

This is an important meeting
during which the program of proximate preparation
for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist will be explained.
Books and some handouts will be distributed.

For more information,
you may speak with our parish pastoral assistant, Sharon Camier,
and/or our pastor, Fr. Robert Polz.

PLEASE CONTACT SHARON CAMIER BEFOREHAND TO REGISTER.

PLEASE BE SURE TO PRACTICE REQUIRED PROTOCOLS 
INCLUDING WEARING FACE MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING.

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Faith Formation of Children

Catechism Classes 2020-2021

Archbishop Gagnon in a memo at the beginning of the new school term wrote, “This year the COVID-19 pandemic means that our young people are returning to school under unusual circumstances including the use of masks, social distancing procedures, cohorts and altered schedules.  We wish all of our young people well during the school year ahead.”

We now have available the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies liturgically-based faith formation program that provides weekly handouts with a short description of the Sunday Gospel plus suggested activities and discussion starters for each age level.  As many recall, this faith formation program has materials divided into the following age groups:  SEEDS (Preschool), PROMISE (Kindergarten – Grade 1), GOOD NEWS (Grades 2-3), VENTURE (GRADES 4-6) and VISIONS (Grades 7-8).

Our Archdiocesan Synod reminded us that the domestic church (i.e. the family/home) is the primary place where faith is lived and passed on to the next generation.  Even as we continue to deal with the COVID-19 situation, we urge all families to register their children for catechism instruction.  Eventually, we may hold some catechetical sessions at the church as circumstances permit. 

At this point, however, because of the Pandemic Response Critical Level (RED) restrictions in place, all catechetical lessons need to be sent home to be completed in the home setting. 

Those with children are urged to contact Sharon Camier, our Pastoral Assistant, in order to complete a REGISTRATION FORM so that materials may be prepared for you as soon as possible to be used in the home setting. 

The designated registration fee helps defray some of the costs of running our catechetical program.  Nevertheless, requested fees should in no way be considered a reason to refrain from enrolling children for whose parents the fee would impose an undue hardship.  In due course, preparation for the sacraments of Reconciliation, Confirmation and First Eucharist will begin and, circumstances permitting, will involve a mixture of sessions at church and at home.

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