Dear Friends,
As we prepare to begin a new season of Religious Education classes for our children on Tuesday, September 23, I write with a grateful heart and a hopeful vision for our parish community.
First, a heartfelt thank you to the many parents who have already signed up early. Your readiness ensures that our Faith Formation team and catechists can prepare well and welcome your children with love, care, and confidence. For those who have not yet had the chance to register, I warmly invite you to do so. There is still time, and I promise you, the investment you make in your child’s formation will be one of the greatest gifts you can give them.
We live in a time when secularism has become the dominant culture. Religion has largely disappeared from our public schools and from much of public life. The voices that most often reach our children are the voices of media, technology, and consumer culture. If we do not give them the tools of faith, if we do not root them in Christ, then the world will catechize them in its own image.
Pope Francis once said, “Educating is not only giving notions, but it is a commitment to life, so that young people learn to live, to grow, and to be responsible for themselves and for others.” Our Religious Education program is precisely this: helping our children to live, to grow, and to take responsibility for their lives as beloved sons and daughters of God.
Pope Leo XIV, in his prayer intention for this September, invited us to “discover God’s presence in
