Growing Up Catholic Faith Stories (Crecer en la Fe Catolica: Historias de Fe) is a whole family catechetical series for adults, children, and young teens. The story-based approach focuses on the core of our Catholic faith and provides opportunities for parents to share their faith with their children. The Faith Stories program is organized into three years – God Calls, Jesus Lives, and Spirit with Us. Each year is focused on a different set of stories, based around color family booklets, with editions for young children or ages 11-14.
In 2022-23, we will focus on the gospel story—the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
We will host six parish-based whole family introductory sessions. Nine story-based sessions will be sent home for families to complete in between the introductory sessions.
In our gathered sessions, we will explore faith stories in a hands on way, using Lego® building blocks. Inspired by the author of Building Faith Brick by Brick, we will dig deep into the well of creativity and an enormous bin of little plastic building bricks to meld together a new way of teaching the stories of God.
A home study program is also available. Fifteen story-based sessions will be sent home for families to complete together in English or in Spanish. The Faith Formation Office will provide support for you to successfully complete the lessons. This is a wonderful way for the family to learn together and grow in faith.
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Bible study is an opportunity to encounter God as well as learn about who we are as a Church. When people study God’s Word together in groups, they have an opportunity to know each other on a deeper level than is usually possible. It becomes an opportunity to build community and to extend that community in care for others.
The Gospel of Matthew introduces us to Jesus as the Master Teacher whose words of instruction are captured in large teaching sections. Part One covers Matthew 1:1–16:28, from the birth of Jesus through much of his public teaching life, to the first prediction of his passion.
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