OUR PARISH’S
Family Faith Formation Program TAKING AN EXCITING NEW DIRECTION
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xciting changes have been underway this summer at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, all to help us grow as disciples of Christ, grounded in our ability to evangelize our Catholic faith. Effective July 1, we now have Family Faith Formation with Hope Glidewell as the Coordinator. The focus has broadened from Parish School of Religion to Family Faith Formation, with existing ministries brought under the Family Faith Formation hub and a family ministry focus. Meetings have been ongoing all summer to organize all the details, with the cooperative element between St. Anthony of Padua Parish and St. Dominic School playing an important role. Hope’s position will be tying all the pieces of the former Director of Religion’s post to Family Faith Formation. “Fr. Tom and I are involved with the parish and the school, and we have different vocations, including our deacon, parents of a school family,
as well as a parishioner who has a leadership role coordinating ministries, along with Hope, all working as a team,” says Carol Frericks, St. Dominic Principal. The new Family Faith Formation will take a modular approach to help organize the ministries and to involve more people, with more taking responsibility. “There will be other people affected in the change of the Parish School of Religion,” Fr. Tom Donovan says. “We have to get teachers and curriculum and re-format the PSR. We’re looking at reorganizing our PSR with a new vision, drawn from the recent Synod which at the same time called for the restored order of the sacraments. Bishop Paprocki is challenging us to focus on how to help our children live the grace of the sacraments in their young lives, specifically by developing them as Christian Disciples and Stewards in those middle continued on back cover
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