Udated March 16, 2020:  As of today, all CCD/Parent Faith Formation sessions are suspended until April 19.  Students/families will receive more information as it becomes readily available.

If your teen is asking hard questions about the Catholic Faith - we feel ya.

• Being Catholic
• Religion versus Spirituality
• Science and Faith
• The meaning of LOVE
• Love and Responsibility
• What life is about
• Why is assisted suicide wrong
• Why you shouldn't live together before marriage...
• NAME IT///

But that's what we do...

AND SUPPORTING YOUR FAITH and YOUR FAMILY THROUGH IT ALL.

We welcome you and your family to the life of the Church at St. Luke and look forward to celebrating with you all the joys and gifts that the Holy Spirit will work in your life in the days to come!
 

WHY IS ST. LUKE'S TEEN CCD SO DIFFERENT?

What makes STL's TEEN Faith Formation so different?

• MENTORING COUPLES:

  Our Mentoring Couples are kind men and women whose whole role in our program is to cheer, support, encourage, and WITNESS to how a real life is better if it has a real FAITH.  They LISTEN to our teens' achievements, sorrows, concerns, hopes, happy moments, and sad life struggles - and they cheer, commiserate, encourage, cry, and pray with our teens.  Think of them as Catholic Life Coaches who don't have perfect lives - Father Pat calls it perfect imperfeection: but who are people who know that this difficult human life can't be lived well without a strong love for Christ in the Sacraments, in deeply rooted relationship with God, prayer. and family and community.  They offer our teens a look at what ADULT CATHOLIC FAITH looks like and support the virtues, goals, and hope our teens' parents are trying to share with them.

• CATECHISTS:

  Our Catechists are wonderful men and women who have the ability to explain the Sacraments, the Holy Mass, our Faith, and our Traditions with the help of our Pastor, Parochial Vicar, Seminarians from the Archdiocese of New Orleans, and Sisters from our Religious communities.  They share the Holy Faith with the same energy, compassion, humor, and love that the leaders of the Early Church had.  Their joy is contagious - and their faith is bolstered by a deep love for Christ in the life of the Catholic Church.

• TEEN MEAL PREPARERS

  If you have a teen in your life, you know there is never enough food.  It's hard to be thinking about the major questions of your life if your stomach is grumbling!  Our parishioners volunteer to cook (buy) a meal for about 15 teens and their mentors every so often.  The food is terrific! but the love is even more important.  The meals are a sign of our parishioners affection for these young men and women who are the future of the Catholic Church.  The teens get to correspond with the families via thank you cards and prayers - these families pray for them and they pray for the families who provide the meals!  It builds a real relationship of belonging.