CCD – Religious Education of Children
About Religious Education of Children at Notre Dame De Lourdes Catholic Church, Price, Utah
Our mission in religious education is to collaborate with parents to form a new generation of Catholics who know and love Jesus Christ and live as his disciples in the community of the Catholic Church. Toward that end, we strive to offer a unified, solid and engaging religious education program.
While our children and youth will receive important formation in the parish religious education program, the Church strongly encouraged all parents to walk closely with their children as they grow in knowledge and practice of the catholic faith.
Through CCD classes, First Communion, Confirmation Preparation classes, and other programs, the Religious Education Program sows the seeds of faith that will bloom eternally in each one of our children.
CCD Classes meet Tuesday evening from 5:45pm- 7:00 p.m. at Hope Centre. Classes, generally. We follow the school schedule in regards to days off.
Our mission in religious education is to collaborate with parents to form a new generation of Catholics who know and love Jesus Christ and live as his disciples in the community of the Catholic Church. Toward that end, we strive to offer a unified, solid and engaging religious education program.
While our children and youth will receive important formation in the parish religious education program, the Church strongly encouraged all parents to walk closely with their children as they grow in knowledge and practice of the catholic faith.
Through CCD classes, First Communion, Confirmation Preparation classes, and other programs, the Religious Education Program sows the seeds of faith that will bloom eternally in each one of our children.
CCD Classes meet Tuesday evening from 5:45pm- 7:00 p.m. at Hope Centre. Classes, generally. We follow the school schedule in regards to days off.
CCD History
The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine is an association founded in Rome in 1562 for the purpose of giving religious instruction to the young. The association was formed in response to challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation. The Council of Trent, the ecumenical council convened as the Counter-Reformation to the Protestant Reformation, stated that church reform must begin with the religious education of the young.
In 1560 a group of priest and laymen joined together and pledged to instruct both children and adults in Christian doctrine. In 1562 the association divided into two sections: the priests formed themselves into a religious congregation, the Fathers of Christian Doctrine, while the laymen remained in the world as "The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine." In 1571 Pope Pius V recommended that it be establish in every parish. Over time it began to spread throughout dioceses in the world. The classes taught in the CCD program not only educate children about Jesus and the Catholic faith but, also, prepare children to receive the sacraments of Penance (confession), the Eucharist (Holy Communion), and Confirmation.
In 1560 a group of priest and laymen joined together and pledged to instruct both children and adults in Christian doctrine. In 1562 the association divided into two sections: the priests formed themselves into a religious congregation, the Fathers of Christian Doctrine, while the laymen remained in the world as "The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine." In 1571 Pope Pius V recommended that it be establish in every parish. Over time it began to spread throughout dioceses in the world. The classes taught in the CCD program not only educate children about Jesus and the Catholic faith but, also, prepare children to receive the sacraments of Penance (confession), the Eucharist (Holy Communion), and Confirmation.
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CCD (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine)
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Would You Like to Help?
Notre Dame’s Religious Education program is always in need of volunteers and teachers. If you’d like to help share your faith and love for God, please call DRE: Catherine Kane 435-630-0815
[Please note that requirements to be CCD teacher (Catechist) include: the candidate must be a practicing Catholic, at least 18 years of age, and in good standing in the Church; background checks and completion of a Safe Environment program will also be needed.]
[Please note that requirements to be CCD teacher (Catechist) include: the candidate must be a practicing Catholic, at least 18 years of age, and in good standing in the Church; background checks and completion of a Safe Environment program will also be needed.]
Parents as first teachers of the faith
CCC 223 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.
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.
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