Announcements
Download Registration Form (for new students only)
Faith Formation Goals
Announcements
The schedule for First Communion is as follows:
Saturday May 3 at 4:30 pm Mass
Sunday May 4 at 10 am and 11:30 am Mass
Saturday May 10 at 4:30 pm Mass
Sunday May 11 at 10 am and 11:30 am Mass
Saturday May 17 at 4:30 pm Mass
Sunday May 18 at 10 am Mass
May will be Faith Formation Registration month for all new students entering the first grade in the fall of 2008 and for ninth grade students who have been attending Catholic School and will be entering the Confirmation program…Watch for further information! All students currently in the Faith Formation Program will be moved to the next grade. Forms were sent home with the children in Grades 1 – 6 and will be emailed to parents as well. Please return at your earliest convenience.
Download Faith Formation Calendar (February to May)
Catechists
Substitute teachers are still needed for the junior high faith formation and Confirmation programs. If you are able to help out on an occasional basis, please contact Karen in the Teen Faith Formation Office. Thank you!
The Disussion Forum has been discontinued. We'll look at restarting it in 2008.
Faith Formation Registration:
Children enrolled in the program are being moved to the next grade on the same day and time as last year. Please expect a letter with further information and request for tuition payment by mail. Tuition fee is $50. per child/$100 per family.
First Grade or New Student Registration: Please come into the office to complete a registration form (or dowload Registration Form here ). Tuition fee is $50 per child/$100 per family. A Baptismal certificate is required for children not baptized at Our Lady of Victory Parish.
Faith Formation 2007-2008 Calendar - A complete session calendar can be downloaded here.
Session Times:
Sunday 11:15 am – 12:15 pm, Monday 4:30 – 5:30 pm & 6 – 7 pm, Tuesday, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Family Program is not scheduled for this year. Families who were participating in this program are being asked to enroll their children in one of the 4 sessions mentioned above. Thank you .
Faith Formation Goals
Formation in faith is not just for children. All catechetical documents since Vatican II stress the importance of adult formation. “Catechesis for adults, since it deals with persons who are capable of an adherence that is fully responsible, must be considered the chief form of catechesis. All other forms, which are indeed always necessary, are in some way oriented to it.” (Catechesi tradenae, 43) Formation in faith is a life-long, multifacted process in which we all participate. Following are my goals and dreams for parishioners of all ages.
I want all of us, every member of OLV & OLH Parish Community,
- to understand with every fiber of our being that God loves us and to live in response to that love.
- to know the depth, breadth, beauty and richness of the Christian Story and the Catholic Faith Tradition.
- to hear and understand the Word of God as revealed in Scripture and to internalize its essential truths.
- to participate fully in the Sacramental and liturgical life of the Church and to experience a meaningful private and communal prayer life.
- to live in right, loving relationships with God and others and to continue to grow in those relationships.
- to nurture and support each other and to be nurtured and supported in loving, faith-filled communities.
- to have life to the fullest and to live in ways that are life-giving to others.
- to make good ethical and moral choices that promote justice and peace.
- to realize all our God-given potential and use it in service for the common good.
These goals of holistic faith formation take a lifetime to accomplish and an entire community to achieve. What we do in faith formation programs is only a part of the greater whole. We, each as individuals and together as a parish community, teach and contribute to the formation of others by the way we live, love, pray and serve.