ADULT FAITH FORMATION / RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

FAITH FORMATION MISSION STATEMENT

We are committed to promoting the mission of Christ at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish through education and faith formation.

The essential tasks are:

Word – “Promoting knowledge of the faith”

Worship – “ Liturgical Education”

Service – “ Moral Formation”

Community – “ Initiation and Education in community life and mission.

As the bishop of our diocese has recently written, “the emphasis on adult faith formation, sometimes called adult religious education, or lifelong catechesis, are probably obvious. First Catholic adults will experience their faith in richer, deeper, more satisfying ways if they are continually leaning more about it. Second, if Catholic adults are going to engage seriously in their duty to apply the faith to the challenges of life in the world, they must understand that faith in and adult way. Third, because the quality of faith formation offered to children and youth depends so heavily on the mature faith of adults—parents, parish catechists, Catholic school teachers and youth ministers—it is critically important that adults b adequately prepared to share their faith with the young.” (Bishop Richard Malone, Letter to Parish Catechetical Leaders, September 20, 2004)

Please check the bulletin upcoming adult formation opportunities r e