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To learn more about First Penance and First Holy Communion preparation, please CLICK HERE. Parents and children are required to attend weekly Sunday Mass, preparation classes, and workshops, in addition to home study. Registration is required. Children who have already made their First Confession are invited to prepare for the Sacrament of First Holy Communion in the Spring. First Penance and First Communion PreparationĬhildren age seven and older, usually in the second grade, are invited to prepare for the Sacrament of Penance in the Fall preceding their First Holy Communion. Classes will be held on Sunday mornings from September through May. Parish-provided Faith Formation instruction includes the following: Faith Formation for Childrenįaith Formation is provided for all registered children of the Cathedral in Kindergarten through eighth grade.
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Through a combination of lessons in the home, weekly sessions in the church community, and participation in Mass, young people in our parish have the best possible chance to live a full and loving life in the Catholic Faith. The parish’s responsibility is to support parents in their role as primary teachers and evangelists of their families. When parents introduce their child to the formal Faith Formation process, they are acting on the promises they made at their child’s Baptism to raise that child in the Catholic Faith. Parents are integral in the role they play in their childr en’s faith development, and serve as their primary teachers and role models. We believe that the first church is the domestic church found in each and every home.
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To put it another way, genuine religious education informs, forms, and transforms.Īt the Cathedral, we believe that Faith Formation occurs within the family, and that parents are the primary spiritual and moral educators of their children. Religious education is both instruction in the truths of our Faith, and a guide to a way of life that leads to communion with the Triune God. While the Church acknowledges the right and responsibility of parents to educate their children in the Faith, she must also exercise her role as a vigilant mother in matters of Faith. *Young men with changed voices are encouraged to contact the Director of Music for other choral opportunities to be determined.Faith Formation for Children Beginning a Lifelong Journey of Faith If you are (or have): a child (with unchanged voice*) in grades 3-8 can commit to a weekly rehearsal and frequent performance can (or want to learn how to) read modern musical notation and Gregorian chant enjoy singing and learning with others, then the Schola Cantorum might be for you! Rehearsals are weekly on Wednesday from 3:45-4:45PM, while Masses and other services sung are TBD by the Director of Music in consultation with parents.įor more information, please contact the Director of Music, Mr. While our Schola Cantorum includes boys and girls, the mission is the same: to preserve Gregorian chant and the treasury of Catholic sacred music for catechesis and evangelization, as well as to beautify the sacred liturgy and instill a love of sacred liturgy in children. After initial establishment in the first millennium by the pope, scholae cantorum appeared throughout the Christian West as a way of providing music that could not be performed by an entire congregation. The schola was made up of men and boys who studied the sacred, liturgical music of the Church. Throughout the history of the Latin Rite, sacred music was sung at the liturgy and taught through generations by the school of singers known as a schola cantorum. In the Winter of 2014 a new and exciting development in music took place at the Cathedral. Please contact the Director of Music if you are interested in joining…and spread the word! A yearly tuition of $50/child (maximum of $100/family) is collected to offset mask purchase, sheet music, copying costs, and the like. If your child (or anyone grades 3-8 with unchanged voice) is interested in joining, please contact the Director of Music ( or 205.251.1279×107). Schola will be held for an abbreviated time (Wednesdays 4-4:45PM) with KN95 masks worn, physical distancing observed, and temperature checks. Children’s Schola resumes on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, with appropriate safeguards for COVID-19.