Family Faith Formation and Sacramental Preparation Registration 2024-2025

Welcome to our new and returning families!

Thank you for visiting the St. Mary’s Faith Formation and Sacramental Preparation Registration page. Please read the following information before filling out the registration form or using the payment link.

This year, Family Faith Formation will be offered on Sundays from 10:15 -11:45 am. A meal (continental breakfast) will be available beginning at 10:15. Your children will proceed with their catechists to their respective classrooms at approximately 10:40 and will be returned to you in Fatima Hall at 11:45.

Both parents and children MUST attend. Children are not allowed to be dropped off alone. Please register* all your children (not those in Catholic school) in grades K to 7 for our new Word of Life program, produced collaboratively by The Augustine Institute and Ignatius Press.

Once you have registered, you can pick up both your book(s) (and your child’s) and the reading schedule at the parish center. Note: Books and the schedule will be available for pickup one week after Labor Day, on Sept. 8. To be prepared for the first parent session, please read the first chapter of Peter Kreeft’s Because God is Real by September 15.

First Holy Communion and Reconciliation

An additional 15 preparation classes for First Reconciliation and First Eucharist will be held on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 till 7:30pm. This year we will use the Signs of Grace program by the Augustine Institute. Signs of Grace is the only comprehensive sacramental preparation program for children which includes a thorough family faith formation component that includes the parents. Therefore, the parent and child will attend together. Please see the calendar for all class dates.

First Reconciliation Resources

For the children: Signs of Grace: You are Forgiven program prepares children to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation by revealing the richness of God’s mercy. 

For the adults: Forgiven: The Transforming Power of Confession, explores the grace and healing offered in Confession and shows how this sacrament reveals the depth of God’s love. By looking at God’s revelation of his mercy in Scripture and a step-by-step review of the Rite itself, Forgiven communicates God’s invitation to experience his indescribable love in this beautiful and powerful sacrament.

First Eucharist Resources

For the children: Signs of Grace: You are Loved prepares children to receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion by revealing God’s intimate love for us.

For the adults: Presence: The Mystery of the Eucharist explores the truth and beauty of Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist, from its origins in Sacred Scripture, to its profound role in our lives and the life of the Church.

Remember that families enrolled in the preparation programs for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion are also expected to attend Family Faith Formation together as a family.

Questions about Family Faith Formation or First Sacraments?
Contact Jeri Prokop at [email protected].

Confirmation

For Confirmation-related questions, please contact Stephanie Lyons at [email protected]

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*Families who need assistance with the registration fee, please contact Jeri Prokop.