1st Grade Faith Formation
A Year of Introduction to Our Beautiful Faith
A Whole-Family Experience
Our first grade students are asked to come with their families to a special "Family Faith Formation" class on Sundays after the 10AM Mass throughout the school year. During this time, our parents and students will be separated for the majority of the class, each receiving their own formation. At the end of each At-Church session, parents and children are reunited for a Family Prayer experience. Families are also sent home with a box full of the supplies needed for their At-Home monthly family meetings (30min or less)!
We will cover the topics of the Kerygma (Creation, Fall, Salvation, Our Response), and also the core tenets of our Catholic Faith through the Creed. We will utilize programs titled "SEEK" and "ROOT" throughout the school year to introduce our families to these topics!
Please click the buttons below to register your family for 1st Grade Family Faith Formation and also to see the schedule for the year.
Words of John Paul II Encouraging Faith in the Home:
“The Church wishes to carry out her educational mission above all through families who are made capable of undertaking this task by the Sacrament of Matrimony, through the ‘grace of state’ which follows from it and the specific ‘charism’ proper to the entire family community.”
--Grattissimam Sane, John Paul II
“...the Christian family, in fact, is the first community called to announce the Gospel to the human person during growth and to bring him or her, through a progressive education and catechesis, to full human and Christian maturity.”
--Familiaris Consortio, Pope John Paul II
"Certainly one area in which the family has an irreplaceable role is that of religious education, which enables the family to grow as a “domestic church.” Religious education and the catechesis of children make the family a true subject of evangelization and the apostolate within the Church… Even when they entrust these responsibilities to ecclesiastical institutions or to schools administered by religious personnel, their educational presence ought to continue to be constant and active."
--Grattissimam Sane, John Paul II
