Our catechists work hard to prepare for each student. You can join us by offering to assist with special activities, preparing materials as needed, or joining a class for a special lesson or project. Feel free to ask your children’s catechist how you can be a part of the classroom. Throughout the year we host a series of age-appropriate projects, activities, and presentations that would be made even more special for your children if you were here with them. Please feel free to sign up as a catechist or helper—we are always in need of parents!

Prayer for Our Family

Grant your special grace to our family.
Make our home a shrine of peace, purity, love, and labor. Help us to make our home a school of faith for our children, that they may learn the lessons of heaven, and how to apply them to daily life.
Let our habits become virtues that we may model for our family life lived in Christ. Protect us from evil, prepare us for heaven. We pray in the name of the Holy Family, Amen.

Family Resources
 

Grades Pre-K through 8 in English

Grades Pre-K through 3rd Spanish

Some sessions are offered also online

Sessions Monday, 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm or Wednesday from 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

RCIA Children in Spanish – Wednesday 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

RCIA Children in English – Monday 7:00 pm

We retake our commitment to offering a class for parents every week while your children are attending class. Is a requirement that Parents of children enrolled in the Sacramental year (Penance and Reconciliation, First Communion, Confirmation) will attend at least 70% of the sessions. Please join us at the Activity Center on Monday or Wednesday, and also online.

SMALL GROUP-PARENT
FAITH FORMATION CLASSES
 
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CLASES PARA PADRES DE FAMILIA
DE FORMACION EN LA FE

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 Note: The real annual cost for materials is $300 per child,
please consider assisting the parish with part or all of the actual cost. Thank you!

Please make checks payable to the Church of the Holy Family and the memo with Religious Ed and the name of the child or children

To pay online please contact our office Monday, Wednesday, or Friday from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Also, email [email protected] to send you the information and links.

Registration Form

All preparation for the celebration of sacraments is done through the cooperation and direct involvement of parents, the faith community, and the Religious Formation staff. Invitation for enrolling children in sacramental preparation is done at the beginning of the Religious Formation program in the fall.

CATECHESIS FOR THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION.

We offer faith formation to parents who have children preparing for the celebration and reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation (AOD 230-230.1). This formation is conducted through classes for parents and individual Parent Conference Meetings and Sacramental Preparation Meetings, and a retreat as well parents and children are provided with an approved textbook, My First Reconciliation, published by Dynamic Catholic and We Believe by Sadlier.

CATECHESIS FOR THE FIRST CELEBRATION AND RECEPTION OF THE SACRAMENT OF EUCHARIST

Offered to Baptized children who have reached the age of reason are to be properly catechized for the celebration and reception of the First Eucharist. The preparation for Eucharist can begin any time after the 1st grade.

Children are able to receive Jesus in the Eucharist with faith and devotion and actively participate in the Eucharistic celebration (AOD 240- 240.3). We offer faith formation to parents who have children preparing for the celebration and reception of the Eucharist and an individual Parent Conference Meetings, Sacramental Preparation Meetings, and a retreat, which is why attendance is vital.

Parents and children are provided with an approved textbook, My First Communion published by Dynamic Catholic; and We Believe by Sadlier.

CATECHESIS FOR THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION

After completing a program of catechetical preparation and with the approval of the Pastor, candidates may celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation between the ages of 13 and 15 (eighth and ninth grades), except for those candidates of catechetical age who are preparing for full initiation into the Catholic Church (RCIA, 252, 259). This sacrament is celebrated annually at Holy Family, according to the schedule and procedures established by the Archbishop’s office. For Confirmation preparation teens will explore two programs: Alpha Series for Teens for the first ten weeks, and then the Chosen program published by Ascension Press. The Archdiocese of Detroit allows one sponsor per Confirmation Candidate. Sponsors must be confirmed Catholics over the age of 16 years, who are in full communion with the Catholic Church and actively participate in their parish (CIC 893, 874). By January we will have an individual Parent Conference Meeting to explain the Confirmation requirements. We offer faith formation to parents who have children preparing for the celebration and reception of Confirmation.