The family meeting is an at-home faith experience with the entire family. The structure is a gathering ritual, opening prayer, check-in, experiential activity, teaching, and closing prayer. Each family meeting should take 20-40 minutes.

A family session is an at-church experience that follows the structure of a family meeting. A leader or leaders facilitate the session and model family-based faith formation. We believe families need an at-church component, even if most of the teaching is happening at home. Community is essential in the life of the Church and we want families to gather often to support one another. The premier weekly gathering is Sunday Mass. We pray that as families fall in love with Jesus and their community that they would hunger to live in a weekly communion available to them at the Mass.

For the fall semester, we will use Seek, which provides four high quality at-church sessions for the whole family. In these sessions, you will learn about the Gospel message and how to share it with your kids.

During the spring semester, we will use the Root box, which will teach you and your family about the statements of the Nicene Creed that we say at Mass each Sunday. This box includes six at-home family meetings. During this semester, we will have four at-church family sessions to help break open what you and your children have been learning at home in the parent series and family meetings.

Family Faith Formation is for any family desiring to pass on the Catholic faith to their children. It is not limited to students in certain schools or parishioners.

Statistics show that for faith to “stick” it must be talked about and lived out with the people children love the most, their parents. We may only have them in faith formation for one or two years, but you will be in a relationship with them for a lifetime.

We determined you are our best investment for the faith development of your children. We sought a program that puts family at the center of the teaching. Parents are already overwhelmed, especially in this current reality, so we did not want to just send home one more thing to “do.” We wanted to give you a tool to create meaningful moments together that will help you develop Christian leaders. We all want to raise children that embody the values of Jesus. Children who are courageous, kind, humble, compassionate, and have strong character.

We are choosing programs to bring to that you conduct in your own homes with you as the leader. We provide everything you need as a box. It is interactive and very easy to implement. You present the material through short family meetings and you get to choose the best day and time for these to happen.

Parents, you have everything needed to share faith with your children! Your own life and the ways you have encountered God are your best teaching tool. Faith is a gift, a lens to see your life through, not a series of classes to “check off.” It applies to your everyday life. We hope you will experience this program in this way. We look forward to your feedback, and will use it to guide us in this new process.

Your family remains in our prayers as an essential part of our community!

Faith Formation certainly doesn’t end with Confirmation!

We are so proud of our high school youth ministry program, The Vine, which provides high school students the opportunity to encounter God and grow in their faith alongside their peers. We encourage your children to attend, especially on 2nd Sundays with the whole family!

We also have a variety of videos, books, links, & more available on our Parent Resources page and our High School Resources page to help you continue sharing the faith with your older teens!

School families who want to utilize our regular resources are absolutely welcome to register here! Saint Brendan School uses the same sacramental preparation family materials as Family Faith Formation.