“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)

FAITH FORMATION CLASSES
Formal classes will be returning for all grades for the 2018/2019 academic  year.  We continue to hold up an dsupport 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! 

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES BEGINNING IN LATE SEPTEMBER

Grades 1-6:                      Sunday Mornings 9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Grades 7/8:                      Monday Evenings 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Grades 9/10:                    Sunday Evenings 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Autism and the Sacraments will meet on Sunday Mornings from 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

FORMED.org

As part of our ongoing effort to help you in forming your children in the ways of our faith, the parish has purchased a subscription to FORMED.org. FORMED.org has programs, books, videos and audio that your family can enjoy together.  Our parish code is QDFM94.  You will need to create an account, but you will not be charged.  
 

We follow the practice of a separate Liturgy of the Word for children as suggested in the Directory for Masses with Children.  The primary purpose of dismissing children is to provide them with a focused environment where they are more likely to become conscious, active listeners and responders to God’s Word.  The intention of  Children’s Liturgy of the Word is NOT to baby-sit or provide entertainment for the children.  The celebration of the Liturgy of the Word with children is a liturgical experience which opens young people to hear and respond to God’s Word in ways that enable them to be nurtured and challenged by God’s Word. 

We invite children ages 4-10 to participate in this Liturgical experience, and we encourage parents and older siblings to become involved as members of our team.