Info, Schedule, Registration Forms for 2024-2025

We are running our programs in two semesters, fall and spring, each being two months a piece. Confirmation will only consist of one "semester" and will finish in the fall. There will, however, be a "post-confirmation" group started in the spring.

Please see below the main points about our program this year, and see attached for the schedules and forms for our programs:

Family Catechism (CCD)

• Starts Sunday, September 8th
• Every Sunday (for 2 months): 8:30am-10am in the Hall
• 1st-7th grades
• At least one parent (guardian) in class
• Start with breakfast cooked by KCs
• Then, big group class
• Then, break out = kids with catechists, parents with me

First Communion

• Same time and place as Family Catechism
• First Confession in Fall/ First Communion in Spring
• Every Sunday (for 2 months): 8:30am-10am
• 2nd gradeAt least one parent (guardian) in class
• Same structure as above: breakfast, big group, then kids with catechist, parents with me

Confirmation

• Starts with 1/2 day retreat Sat, Aug 31st | 8am-12pm
• Every Sunday (for 2 months): 3:30pm-4:30pm
• 8th, 9th, and 10th grades
• Just the confirmands at class
• 2nd retreat day - November 9th | 8am-4pm
• Confirmation Mass - November TBD

Note: A confirmation sponsor must be confirmed and living the Catholic faith (unmarried and not cohabitating/ within a Catholic marriage). A sponsor cannot be the parents of the confirmand.

Other Info

See attached forms and the below costs for our programs. Forms may be brought to the office or scanned and emailed to: frfurka@stpetersofnewiberia.com

• Family Catechism - no cost (donations welcome)
• First Communion - $40 per child
  • Need baptism certificate copy
• Confirmation - $100 per child
  • Need baptism and first communion certificate copies

Again, see attached class schedules and forms.

An online registration form can be found at: https://www.stpetersofnewiberia.com/ccd