Mass Times
Weekend
Saturday Vigil: 4:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am
Weekday
Tuesday: 8:00am
and all First Fridays
Confession Times
Saturday: 3:00pm to 3:45pm
or by Appointment
Holy Hour
Saturday: 3:00 - 4:00pm
A Note From
Rev. Joe Koyickal
Forming Our Children in Faith: A Shared Responsibility
We will be starting our PSR classes next month. I want to underline the importance of this program for our children to help them to meet the challenges they are facing in today’s world. This is a shared responsibility of parents, Catechists, volunteers & the entire parish community. Our PSR program is much more than a weekly class or a religious education requirement. It is an important part of our mission as a parish to help our children know Jesus, grow in faith, & learn to live the Gospel.
We are raising our children in a world that is very different from the one many of us knew growing up. Through phones, social media, the internet, entertainment, & other forms of digital media, our children are exposed every day to many different messages, ideas, & value systems. Some of these are helpful & positive; others can be confusing &, at times, directly opposed to the values of the Gospel. Our children & young people need more than information, they need faith, guidance, good examples, & a community that will help them discover who they are and what truly matters.
This is why our PSR program is so important. But faith formation does not happen in the classroom alone.
Parents are the first and most important teachers of faith. What children experience at home, prayer, Sunday Mass, forgiveness, kindness, service, gratitude, & the way faith is lived each day often teaches more powerfully than any lesson in a classroom. Our catechists & volunteers build upon what parents begin, sharing their time, faith, & love with our children. And the entire parish community has a role in creating an environment where our young people know that they are welcomed, valued, loved, & an important part of the Church.
For this reason, strengthening our PSR program is a responsibility we share together. We need the commitment of parents, the dedication of catechists & volunteers, & the support & encouragement of the whole parish community. Our goal is not simply to have children attend a class, but to help build a vibrant community of faith in which our children & families worship together & grow together as disciples of Jesus.
Let us work together to give our children what they need most: a strong foundation in Jesus Christ, a loving family of faith, & the confidence to live the Gospel in the world in which they are growing. Our children are not only the future of our Church, but they are also an important part of our Church today.
