1st Communion - Intermediate

2223 Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery - the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the "material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones." Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them: 



• He who loves his son will not spare the rod. . . . He who disciplines his son will profit by him. 
• Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

The objective of our program is to equip and support the parent(s) in their roles as the primary catechist to their children. Each registered student will receive a Finding God workbook to complete with each lesson and access to "Wanderlight™: A Pilgrim’s Adventure that provides a safe and healthy space for children to explore their faith and learn more about the Catholic church. The expectation is that we will help teach you and you will your child(ren). Families participating in this program are expected to:

• Attend a monthly meeting either in person or via zoom, September-March. At least one parent/guardian is expected to attend.
• Complete the Finding God unit lessons and online activities at home.
• Complete and return the unit assessment at the next monthly meeting.