Religious education
Catechism Schedule
Saturdays from 10:00am – 11:30am
School Building at Saint Mary of the Lake
FAITH FORMATION PROGRAM
Our faith formation program is committed to helping in the integral formation of your children and your entire family, favoring a path of progressive knowledge of the faith, the experience of the liturgy, prayer and integration into the life of the Church as a community. This year we will offer the following programs:
For children already baptized who are over 7 years old. This year they will prepare themselves in the knowledge and experience of the Catholic Faith, in a very special way aimed at creating experience of community and receiving the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the reception of the Most Holy Eucharist.
for children who have already made their first communion, and are under 11 years old. This year will be a discovery of their Church being, and they will begin to integrate into some liturgical ministries: Welcome Ministry, Altar Servers, Choir and Proclaimers of the Word.
This program is aimed at adolescents over 12 years of age already baptized who have not received their First Communion, it is a full year in which they will be accompanied to deepen their faith and have their first encounter with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist and the Sacrament of the Reconciliation.
A year of formation in the faith for the adolescents who have made their First Communion and are 12 years or older. This year aims to deepen more in human and Christian life, introducing into the knowledge of the Catechism of the Church and the Sacred Scriptures.
Aimed at those young people who have completed the year of pre-confirmation. This year is dedicated to preparing to receive the sacrament of Confirmation by studying the faith and lives of the saints.
Catechesis is offered for parents who have children in the catechism program, it is required for all parents. It is a journey of deepening the faith in order to be able to accompany their children in their own formation and takes place every 15 days, simultaneously with the catechism meetings of their children.
This program is aimed at children from 7 years old to adolescents from 17 years old, who have not yet received the sacrament of Baptism. And its purpose is to carry out a strong itinerary of formation in the faith, to know better the faith of the Catholic Church, our way of living the liturgy, of praying and of living in community, which can guide them towards a first encounter with God and his insertion in the Catholic Church through the reception of the sacraments of Christian Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. The program will be developed in at least two years of formation, with weekly meetings, is required for all meetings, the participation of at least one of the parents, and the second year beginning the season of Lent, also of the godparents.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ENROLLMENT
If financial help is needed, please do not hesitate to speak with Sr. Claudia Sanchez.
First Communion and Eucharist for Adolescents:
- Copy of Birth Certificate
- Copy of the Baptism Certificate
- Participation of at least one parent in adult catechesis every 15 days.
- Donation: $250.00
Continuing Formation “We are Church” and Pre-Confirmation:
- Copy of Birth Certificate
- Copy of the Baptism Certificate
- Copy of the First Communion Certificate
- Participation of at least one parent in adult catechesis every 15 days.
- Donation: $200.00
Confirmation:
- Copy of Birth Certificate
- Copy of the Baptism Certificate
- Copy of the First Communion Certificate
- Participation of at least one parent in adult catechesis every 15 days.
- Donation: $250.00
RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Children and Adolescents):
- Copy of Birth Certificate.
- Participation of the children together with at least one of their parents in all the meetings.
- Donation: $250.00