Please check back in August for information regarding class information and registration. 

 

“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

Our program looks a little different this year, but our goal is still the same, "to create a program of lifelong faith formation that is centered in and flows out from the Eucharist". 
Families with children in grades 3-7, will still be registering their children in the program, agreeing that they will be participating in our new format.  Parents then will bring their children to Mass each week.  The children will submit a Mass Coupon (which can be located in the documents box of this web page).  Mass attendance will be tracked and those who are participating will advance to the next grade each year.  We have  provided a parish subscription to FORMED.org to help you in teaching your child.  The code for the subscription can be found below.  

Sacramental Preparation

First Reconciliation/First Communion- Preparation for these sacrament will begin in Grade 1.  Children entering the 1st and 2nd grade will register and attend classes in addition to weekly Mass.  They will meet on Sunday monings between 9:00 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.  

Confirmation I/II-   Preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation is a two year process.  After progressing through our Faith Formation program, a child will enter the Confirmation I program to begin preparation for the sacrament.  Classes will start in the early Fall and continue until spring.  (the 2017-2018calendar is located to the right in the Documents box).  All those particpating in our Sacramental Preparation program will be participating in weekly Mass. 

St. Brendan's is here to assist you through the program, and to help parents be the best teachers of our faith.  If at anytime you are looking for assistance or guildance in helping your children, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Primmer in the Faith Formation office.  

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.