Religious Education
Dear Parents & Guardians,
The Archdiocese is recommending that we postpone the start of in person faith formation classes. This is due to the resurgence of the COVID-19 Corona Virus. The postponement will push back the start date of in person gatherings to October 3, 2021. We will continue to register families for Religious Education on our website: https://www.stsmartinparish.org/faith-formation-registration
If you wish to continue to remain at home for Faith Formation we can accommodate that utilizing the Project Nazareth curriculum.
We will not be requiring in person attendance for any grade, and certainly not for those in Sacramental Years.
As always, please keep your eyes posted to the Religious Education section of the parish website for updates as they happen. Please reach out to me by email if you have any questions: [email protected]
This year we will run the grades 1-8 classes at St. Theresa school from 10- 11:15 (directly following the 9am Mass. Grades 9 & 10 Confirmation will take place at St. Ann school on Sundays from 9-10:10 (directly proceeding the 10:15am Mass).
We will also run a Monday evening option for First Communion and Confirmation. Those classes will take place at St. Joseph Church from 6-7pm
This year we will also be running an adult faith formation class one Sunday a month. Since religious education is a supplemental education experience for what the children are learning at home, I think it only aides the parents all the more to assist in their ongoing faith formation.
We are going to empower you, the parents, to be the primary teachers of your children. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) # 2223:
“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.”
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to call me at the office (617-666-2087) or email me [email protected]
To register please fill out the webform at:
https://www.stsmartinparish.org/faith-formation-registration
Sts. Louis & Zelie Martin Parish
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CALENDAR 2021-2022
Sunday Schedule
October 3, 2021 1st Day of Classes
October 10, 2021 No Class—Columbus Day
October 17, 2021
October 24, 2021
October 31, 2021
November 7, 2021
November 14, 2021
November 21, 2021
November 28, 2021 No Class Thanksgiving
December 5, 2021
December 12, 2021
December 19, 2021
December 26, 2021 No Class Christmas Recess
January 2, 2022 No Class Christmas Recess
January 9, 2022
January 16, 2022 No Class MLK
January 23, 2022
January 30, 2022
February 6, 2022
February 13, 2022
February 20, 2022 No Class Winter Recess
February 27, 2022
March 6, 2022
March 13, 2022
March 20, 2022
March 22, 2022 CONFIRMATION St. Catherine Church 7pm.
March 27, 2022
April 3, 2022
April 10, 2022
April 17, 2022 No Class Easter
April 24, 2022
May 1, 2022 First Communion STC School
May 8, 2022 Mother’s Day
May 15, 2022 First Communion STC & STJ Religious Ed
May 22, 2022 First Communion STA Religious Ed
God bless,
Adam