Welcome to the Family Faith Formation Program's Webpage.

The premise of the Family Program is that we, as parents, provide the foremost example for our children of how to live our faith.
 
The Family Program:

• affirms that parents are the primary teachers of their children in the faith.
• uses the liturgical cycle as a basis for exploring our Catholic faith.
• relates gospel values to our daily lives.
• fosters participation in the weekly liturgy and parish community activities.
• offers resources for further exploration of our faith, the liturgy, and explanations of weekly Bible readings, ideas and interpretations.

The success of the Family Program  depends on parent participation.  It is what makes this faith formation program unique.  Learning about our faith and how to better share our faith with our children is what this program is all about!

Internet Sites For Family Program Parents

Helpful Internet Sites For Family Program Parents

http://www.Catholic.org/saints - The largest collection of Catholic Saints available on the web.  Search for you or your child's patron saint, and discover all that you ever wanted to know about them.  If you are having a problem or suffering with a particular ailment, you can search for the patron saint responsible for helping you.  There are over 10,000 Saints availble to search, and you may search by name or by what they are responsible for.  It is an easy site to use and has tons of information telling you what it requires to become a Saint, when a person was indoctrinated as a Saint in the church and in what year they were named saints.   The Website also lists the Doctors of the Church and is a helpful guide for other questions anyone may have regarding Saints.  The website is easy to remember:  http://www.Catholic.org/saints/

http://www.christianfreebies.com/index.html - An interesting collection of free materials. including Christian bookmarks, clipart, poetry, bible passages, music, poetry and posters that you can use as visuals to make your kid's lessons more interesting.

http://www.christiancrafters.com/ - A practical site, that although it is not Catholic, is loaded with ideas for use in teaching.  Some are for purchase at what looked like reasonable prices, others are free.  Examples: "New Life" Puppets with a script and directions for how to make them for use in teaching small children about sin and new life without sin.  This appears to be free to download.  Another example:  Be-Attitudes for kids and adults looks like a great resource that is available to purchase.

http://www.sacredspace.ie/ - This site is run by Irish Jesuits and called "Sacred Space."  It provides daily resources for prayer as you sit at your computer.  It offers meditation for each day of the week.  It also offers directions for body prayer, breathing, and listening to God.  It tries to create an experience of prayer, not just prayers to say.

http://www.delasalle.org/resources/resources-lasallian-prayer-services/ - This site sponsored by the De La Salle Institute offers a collection of prayer services on various topics such as "hope" and "justice."  These are designed for use in the classroom as a service, but parts of the service can be useful for prayers or thoughtful meditations.