“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

 We continue to hold up and support with gratitude, famlies that are fulfilling God's call to keep holy the Sabbath and teaching their children to do the same.  Faith Formation classes are a compliment to the teaching of our faith that parents should be modeling to their child at home and through the experience of celebrating weekly Mass.  Classes are not designed to be a substitute for weekly Mass, neither are they meant to replace what you, the parent, are teaching in the home through actions and attitudes. 

St. Brendan's Parish continues to partner with you to support you in keeping your baptismal promise to raise your child in the faith.

We are excited to see what the Lord will do this year in your child's life!