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Welcome to Faith & Family
Religious Education for Parents and Children
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Faith & Family Registration 2021-2022
Registration for Faith & Family catechesis begins the first week of September. There is still time to register your family for this 2021-22 school year. Please visit St. Joseph's WeShare site to register for Faith & Family.
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Faith & Family Schedule and Forms
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Contact Information and Address
St. Joseph Catholic Church
567 St. Joseph Lane
Manchester, MO 63021
Interim Director of Faith & Family and Sacramental Preparation
Fr. Christopher Rubie
Phone: 636-2275247 x.1612
Email: crubie@stjoemanchester.org
“Remember that education is a matter of the heart, of which God is the sole master, and we will be unable to achieve anything unless God teaches us, and puts the key in our hands." -- St. John Bosco -
What is Faith & Family?
Dear St. Joseph Parents,
Welcome to a new year of Faith Formation at Saint Joseph Catholic Church, I am excited that you have made the commitment toward your child’s spiritual development. St. Joseph believes that Parents are the first and most important teachers of their children. To assist you in this important role, we are committed to providing the best faith development programs available. This means that our grade K-8 Faith Formation Program is a Faith and Family model of Catechesis. A Faith and Family model of catechesis grounds itself in the realization that family life is the place where faith and religion can have the most positive impact and the best chance of taking root in a child’s life.
Our Faith and Family Formation Program includes the following:- Monthly, parents and children will attend one session at the parish, and complete two in home lessons.
- At your monthly session, everyone will begin in the cafeteria for a fun family activity, following that children will go to class for the first lesson of that month's unit, while parents have their own session in the cafeteria. Here you will given information and formation that will help you teach your two lessons at home.
- Attend a few Family Ministry events spread throughout the year, and to take advantage of the plenty of opportunities to explore you and your child’s Catholic faith through other parish activities.
We are asking each family to register for one of three Journey Groups.Faith & Family Programming Journey Group Day Of Month Time Journey Group A First Sunday 9:00-10:30am Journey Group B First Tuesday 4:30-6:00pm Journey Group C First Tuesday 6:15–7:45pm
In addition to participating in your monthly sessions at the parish, we expected families to attend the following Family Ministry events. These events are considered important for those attending the Faith and Family Formation Program.- August 27, 2021 New Beginnings Family BBQ - 6:30pm
- October 4, 2021 Pet Blessing - 6:00pm
- November 1, 2021 All Saints Mass, Children wear your saint costume!!
- November 23, 2021 Thanksgiving Prayer Service & Service Opportunity - 6:30pm
- TBD, 2021 Advent Family Festival Night -
- March 2, 2022 Ash Wednesday Mass - 6:30pm
- March 5, 2022 Lenten Penance Service - 6:30pm
- May 17, 2022 May Crowning - 6:30pm
- June 5, 2022 Pentecost & Church Birthday Party
The Parish community will be hosting a wide variety of events throughout the academic year and we want your family to participate in as many of them as possible so that you will truly feel that St. Joseph is your spiritual home and your child will receive an even greater experience of God’s love and grace than he or she would if they simply attended a class for one night a week.
Children who desire to prepare to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation and to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist for the first time are expected to participate in our First Reconciliation and First Eucharist Preparation Program called Blessed in addition to our Faith and Family Programming. Please see the Sacramental Preparation webpage & registration by clicking on the link in the right hand column above.
Those who desire to participate in the Sacrament of Confirmation are expected to attend our Confirmation Preparation Program in addition to our Faith and Family sessions. Please see the Confirmation Preparation webpage & registration by clicking on the link in the right hand column above.
I pray and hope that you will find that our Faith and Family Formation Program will help your child grow closer to Jesus and that you will also find yourself being drawn closer to God throughout this process.
As I conclude this note to all of you, I want to ask you to ponder the fact that God gave the awesome task of raising up His son Jesus to Mary and Joseph. He did not entrust His beloved Son to angels but to normal human beings like you. In the same way God has blessed you with the great gift of your child but this gift comes with the responsibility of training him or her up in the faith. Know that we at St. Joseph want to help you in any way possible and we believe that you are up to the task God has entrusted to you.
Yours in Christ,
Fr. Thomas Pastorius
Pastor, St. Joseph Catholic Church
Manchester, MO. 63021 - Monthly, parents and children will attend one session at the parish, and complete two in home lessons.
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Special Ed Faith & Family
St Joseph PSR is EXCITED…to offer a religious education class for children with special education needs! Whenever possible children with special education needs will be integrated into a regular PSR classroom. If you have a background in special education and would like to help by teaching a child or assisting in any other way, contact us! Whenever possible children with special education needs will be integrated into a regular PSR classroom.
Who can attend? Any child, 6 – 12 years old, with special needs whose needs cannot be met in a general religious education classroom.
What will we teach? It is our desire to provide quality religious education, sacramental preparation and a living faith for children with special learning needs. We have a high ratio of teacher/helpers to students and work with parents to help the children benefit in the best possible way. Our primary goal is for children to know that God loves them.
What will we do? Have FUN learning about God! Jesus wants your child to grow in faith, too! Have courage! Contact us about religious education for your child! -
Faith & Family Catechists
For the 2021-22 academic year, St. Joseph is providing the email contact from the list of Faith & Family Catechists. Please click on the link provided here to obtain the contact information from the list of catechists.
