Registration for Elementary Religious Education is on-going throughout the summer during our regular office hours.  A freeze on registrations is from September 4 through September 22.  Please be sure to take care of your children’s registration prior to the freeze.

For the ’08 – ’09 Catechetical year, we will have four sessions from which to choose.  This is a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, basis.  When a class is filled, it is filled and registering families will be assigned to available classes.  The sessions will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:15 and 6:00 to 7:15pm.  These sessions are for grades kindergarten through five.

We are always recruiting catechetical ministers (TEACHERS) and if you are interested, let Paulette know.  We have training beginning in mid-May.

The fee structure is as last year, $70.00 for one, $100.00 for two and $150.00 for three or more.  (Fee structure includes Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.)

Junior High and High School Youth ministry will be a separate registration to take place in August.  Our youth ministry is a separate ministry.  Contact that department for further information.

Any changes will only be considered AFTER OCTOBER 1.  PLEASE do not request any class assignment changes prior to that date.  Any requests must be submitted on a request change form.  Be careful to register for the correct session when you first register.  Also, there will be no refunds after October 1.

Registration is open and will continue over the summer months.  Please be apprised that some sessions do fill and some classes may close if you wait too long.  We will have a two week freeze on registration the week prior to the classes beginning and the first week of classes.  No registrations will be taken during that time.

Sacramental preparation is separate and distinct from the regular grade level sessions.  You must register for Reconciliation if you have an eligible 2nd grader.  You must register for Confirmation/Eucharist if you have an eligible 3rd grader.  You must register for Confirmation if you have a 4th or 5th grader who is eligible.

Please see page describing various offerings.  Reconciliation and Confirmation/Eucharist preparation takes place on Sunday mornings with a schedule.  The fourth and fifth grades will have a Post-Confirmation catechesis unit in their classes.

We will not have classes the week of April 7, 8 because it is Holy Week and we fully expect your family to participate in the services being held on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  This is a time for prayer, reflection, special family time and community worship.  PLEASE bring your children to these incredible community celebrations and enter into Holy Week as a family fully engaged in the experience of Journey with our Lord, Jesus, Risen Christ.

Children who have reached second grade or higher and are uncatechized (have not had previous R.E. classes), will be placed in the Children’s Catechumenate, otherwise identified as the CIC process.  Preparation for all Sacramental celebration will take place in this two year process.  This is in association with Sunday Mass.

Children who are coming to the parish requesting Sacramental preparation and celebration are required to have a year of religious education prior to the year of Sacramental preparation.  This is a diocesan requirement.

CIC candidates will not participate in the second or third grade Sacramental preparation sessions.

For more information, please contact Paulette Colin.