Parish Religious Education Program

Because of the dynamics of our parish programs and in order to help families within that program be more actively involved in the formation of their children, Holy Rosary has adopted a “spiral method” of religious education for our children who attend public school or who are home schooled. In this method, students in each grade level study seven key concepts of our faith with age appropriate material. The seven concepts are: Revelation, Trinity, Church, Jesus Christ, Sacraments, Morality, and Kingdom of God.   Ideally, the students are all learning about the church during the same three weeks of class. The value of this model is the uniformity in family curriculum and the encouragement of students to continue learning about these key concepts at greater depth throughout their lives.

Besides weekly classroom sessions for the children, we provide a selection of family faith events throughout the year, a monthly breakfast with parents, and one family retreat a year.   We even host a pre-Lent celebration with a bowling and pizza party, just for fun.

The Details

• We have classes for children from age 4 through Grade 8 on Sundays.
• Classes meet Sunday mornings from 10:00 – 10:55 in the school building
• Classes begin with a Family Session on Aug. 24^th and end with a Strawberry Social on April 26^th. 
• Families can register by calling the parish office.

Fees for this year are:  

School Religion Program K-8

Holy Rosary School offers a comprehensive formation program for all children we serve. This program includes daily religion class, weekly Mass, special prayer experiences, outreach projects, grade level retreats and daily reminders of Christian values and guiding principles.

The curriculum itself is a thematic program – in which students study a particular topic more intensely for an entire academic year. The value of this type of program is a more specialized focus on the part of the teacher and class in a particular teachings of the Church. The students learn:

Gr. 1: The Trinity

Gr. 4: Morality     

Gr. 5: Sacraments

Gr. 6: Old Testament

Gr. 7: New Testament

Gr. 8: Church History

REACH – Our High School Program

Holy Rosary works together with other parishes in the area to provide a comprehensive and dynamic religious education opportunity for our young people in high school. Through REACH, students meets three weekends a year (on both Saturday and Sunday) to study three different areas of Catholic teaching. Catechist are hired from around the diocese to put together a creative and engaging weekend with presentations, focused activities, and prayer experiences from which the students will learn. 

The details for REACH 2008-09:

• REACH is open to all high school youth who want to go deeper in their understanding of the Church and her teaching. It is a requirement of Bishop Gettelfinger that all those high school youth seeking the Sacrament of Confirmation to be a part of formal religious education program – REACH and Memorial High School Theology classes are the programs recognized by Holy Rosary.
• The Topics for this year are Liturgy Prayer and Catholic Devotion, The Old Testament, and Social Justice.
• The weekends are: October 25/26, January 11/12 and March 7/8 and will be hosted by three parishes in the deanery.
• Our times are 9:00am – 3:30pm both Saturday and Sunday and include participation on a Parish Mass.
• Holy Rosary charges a yearly religious education fee of $45.00 per participant (family rate does apply). 
• There is a Parent Information Session on Monday September 8^th at 6:30pm at Good Shepherd Parish.

The Sacraments

First Reconciliation & First Holy Communion
Most of the formation elements of First Reconciliation and First Eucharist take place within the second grade classrooms of Holy Rosary School and the Sunday Religion Program. Besides the material that is in their textbooks (or supplemented by their teachers), we have developed a family component. This component includes family sessions, the reading of Bible stories and a few other activities that will be done at home. 

Parent Meeting     Wed, Oct 8    7:00pm

Family Session      Wed, Oct 29 6:00pm

Penance Service    Wed, Nov 5   7:00pm

Parent Meeting     Wed Mar 11 7:00pm

Family Session     Tues Mar 31 6:00pm
               or Wed Apr 1   6:00pm

Day of Joy           Sat Apr 18   9:00am

Mass                   Sun May 3   2:00pm

Confirmation
Holy Rosary recognizes the ongoing religious education esperiences of the participants in confirmation preparation. Therefore, our Confirmation Prep program is focused on taking all that we have learned thus far and applying it to our lives as Disciples of Christ through the Holy Spirit. Our formation sessions focus of the concepts of Call, Conversion, Service, and Prayer.

• Parent/Candidate information Session - Sun, Sep 14    12:30 – 1:30pm
• Candidate Sessions will be determined by responses of a survey sent in late July.
• Sponsor/candidate Retreat - Sun, Jan 4 11:00am – 5:30pm
  
• Celebration with Bishop Gettelfinger - Sat, Jan 24 7:00pm

If you would like more information about any of our religious education programs at Holy Rosary, please contact Carol Ann Gaddis via email or call the parish office (477-8923).

Click here to see the Sacramental Calendar

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