Whether you are looking for information for the first time or have been long-time participants in our Faith Formation programs, we are glad you’ve found us! This webpage is an endeavor that we hope will make it easier for families to learn about our faith formation programs, sacramental preparation events and service opportunities.
Our goal as a parish is to foster each parishioner’s lifelong search to experience and understand Jesus Christ and the Church. We continue to endeavor on how we can adapt our program more effectively to meet our parishioner’s needs and desires in fulfilling that goal. If there is something you were hoping to find, and did not, please let us know so that we can add it.
As you well know, catechesis is a responsibility of the entire Christian community. This should not be the work of catechists and priests alone, but of the whole community of the faithful. The Christian community follows the development of catechetical processes, for children, young people and adults, as a duty that involves and binds it directly. (GDC 220) A fully Christian community can exist only when a systematic catechesis of all its members takes place and when an effective and well developed catechesis of adults is regarded as the central task of the catechetical enterprise.” (ACCC, no. 25).
The most effective catechetical program for adolescents are integrated into a comprehensive program of pastoral ministry for youth that includes catechesis, community life, evangelization, justice and service, leadership development, pastoral care, and prayer and worship. Such programs aim to empower young people to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today; to draw young people to responsible participation in the life, mission, and work of the Catholic faith community; and to foster the total personal and spiritual growth of each young person."m(National Directory for Catechesis, p. 201)
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is the process whereby adults enter the Catholic Church. RCIA classes provide education on what the Catholic Church believes and an opportunity to ask question about those beliefs.