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We will gather on the
last Monday of the Month
at 5:30 PM.
Sept 28 – Welcome to CCD, Importance of Home Catechesis, Introduction to Formed
Oct 26 – Why Do I Need the Church? Fr David
Nov 23 – Holy Spirit and the Life of Grace/ Anna Maria
Dec 28 – Christmas Holiday
Jan 25 – Marriage & Holy Orders/ Deacon Bill
Feb 22 – Walk Through the Mass/ Fr Jared
Mar 22 – Love That Lasts/ Jeannie
Apr 6 – First Reconciliation Parents/ Anna Maria
Apr 27 – First Communion Parents/ Anna Maria
“Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery-the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the ‘material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.’ Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them.” (CCC 2223)
“Education in the faith by the parents should begin in the child’s earliest years. This already happens when family members help one another to grow in faith by the witness of a Christian life in keeping with the Gospel. Family catechesis precedes, accompanies, and enriches other forms of instruction in the faith. Parents have the mission of teaching their children to pray and to discover their vocation as children of God. The parish is the Eucharistic community and the heart of the liturgical life of Christian families; it is a privileged place for the catechesis of children and parents.” (CCC 2226)
