Welcome to Saints Felicitas & Perpetua Religious Education Program

 

We are all very excited to begin a new year together learning about God and our beautiful Catholic faith. We look forward to joining with you, the parent in contributing to your child’s knowledge of God and the Church.  In order to have a firm understanding in the mission of our program, please read this entire handbook. 

 

Archdiocesan Elementary Religious Education Program Statement:

 

Catechesis during childhood depends largely on the child’s experience in his or her relationship with others.  The child’s immediate environment, normally the home, remains the child’s main experience of this lived relationship to God. But also, the support of a larger community becomes highly important to formation in faith and its absence becomes a serious matter.  Catechesis seeks to help children make an increasingly personal response to God’s word and gifts.  Catechesis approaches young persons with reverence and aids them in discovering and developing their unique, God-given gifts with the help of the Gospel.  (National Catechetical Directory, #178)

   

 

Saints Felicitas & Perpetua Religious Education Program strives to assist each child to:

 

1. Nurture their personal sense of spirituality.
2. Trust in our God that is loving and caring.
3. Look for and respect the presence of God in them, in others, and in the world around them.
4. Experience joy and ease in traditional and spontaneous prayer.
5. Develop a strong familiarity and love for the Scripture as God speaking to us.
6. Learn and understand the major teachings of our Catholic faith.
7. Grow in their understanding and appreciation of the Mass and their sense of belonging to the worshipping community.
8. Share the Good News of Scripture and our Catholic faith with those around them.

 

General Information

 

 

1. Scheduled Day and Hour of Classes

 

                  Grades 1 – 8:  Tuesdays, 3:45 – 5:00 pm.

 

 

2. Yearly Enrollment Requirements and Fees 

 

                  In order to be eligible for enrollment each family must fall into one of the following categories:

 

                  The family must live within parish boundaries and be registered at the rectory office.

 

The family may live outside parish boundaries but must be registered at the rectory office and must attend Mass here weekly and regularly place a contribution envelope in the Sunday collection basket.

 

A family may be registered at another parish and attend our program due to a scheduling conflict.  Because the family is not a supporting parish family the fee is slightly higher.

 

                  The fee helps to defray the costs of the program (student insurance, textbooks, and all supplies and materials used in class.)

 

3. Set Curriculum

 

The curriculum used is the Faith First Series by RCL.  Children experience a “spiral” approach to learning our Catholic faith as the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church—Creed, Sacraments, Morality and Prayer—are taught and developed on every grade level every year.  This curriculum has been evaluated by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and has been approved and recommended for use in religious programs in this Archdiocese.

 

4. Catechists (Teachers)

 

The catechists are volunteers who are willing to spend time sharing their faith with the children of the parish. Most of them have many years of experience as catechists.  All are competently prepared to teach the children.

 

5. Student Insurance

 

Children are insured in case of injury while coming to, attending or going home from religious education class.  The insurance fee is included in the enrollment fee.

 

6. Emergency and Earthquake Procedures

 

In the event of an earthquake or other emergency, everyone, when it is safe, will evacuate the school building according to the emergency plan and assemble in the parking lot.  No one will be allowed to leave the campus until staff members are ready to release and sign-out the students.

 

In any emergency situation, children will be released only to adults whose names are listed on the enrollment form. 

 

7. Late Pick Up

 

Children are to be picked up promptly at 5:00 pm.  It is disturbing for your child when you are not there on time and not very considerate of the CCD teachers who are already volunteering their time.

 

If you are late in picking up your child (after 5:00 pm), there will be a $20.00 charge per every five minutes that you are late.