• Contact Us

  • 
    Bobby Kinkela
    Associate Director of Religious Education
    269-731-0295; 731-4721 EXT 50 to leave message
    bobbykstannaugusta.org

• Religious Education Documents

  • First Holy Communion Calendar 2019-2020
  • Family Catechesis Handbook 2019-20
  • Calendar: Good Shepherd (3 year olds to 2nd grade)
  • Calendar: Whole Family Catechesis (CCD 3rd-8th grade)
  • Calendar: Adult Faith Formation
  • Family Catechesis Monthly Themes 2019-20
  • WFC Nightly Schedule
  • RE NS December 19th 2018
  • RE NS February 20_19
  • RE NS May 2019

• Religious Education Newsletters

  RE NS October 25th 2017
  RE NS December 20th 2017
  RE NS February 21st 2018
  RE NS May 2, 2018
  RE NS November 1st 2018
  RE NS December 19th 2018
  RE NS February 20th 2019
  Re NS May 1 2019

• Curriculum

    The curriculum for each grade focuses on 6 subjects: Creed, Sacraments, Moral Development, Prayer, Saints, and Scripture.  All grades use doctrine from the Catechism of the Catholic Church plus vocabulary in order to teach these 6 subjects. This Religious Education curriculum is used for the whole diocese of Kalamazoo in parish CCD programs and the Catholic Schools and was last updated in 2014.  Find a pdf of the full curriculum here.
  
  As of this 2018, the diocese of Kalamazoo has put out a new compact  Parish Curriculum
  
  Here is our 2019-2020 Family Catechesis curriculum 
   

• My Parish App:

  Religious Education is using My Parish App to stay in touch with parents. To get the My Parish App go to:  myparishapp.com/appstore or Text App to 88202.  We will use this App like the public schools use “Remind” as a way of communicating events at Pack the House and general events at Religious Education

  1. Then search for and select St Ann Augusta parish
  2. Tap the “groups” button
  3. Join the “Religious Education” group

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• The Mission of St. Ann Parish Whole Family Catechesis

  Family faith formation recognizes that parents know their children best and therefore are uniquely equipped to hand on the faith. Family-based catechesis is a relationship-focused religious education.  We have found a real need for family-based catechesis. It is not enough to know about God, but we must love God and have a relationship with Him. The two great commandments Jesus Christ gives us tells us to “love God and love your neighbor as yourself.”  We exercise our love of God by loving our neighbors. Our first neighbors and first obligation is to our families.
  
  St. Ann Parish Religious Education Program works to evoke and mature in each person an intimate relationship with the Person of Jesus Christ, a love of the Church He founded, and a lifelong process of conversion and missionary witness. It endeavors to develop this relationship with Christ through the liturgy and the sacraments, the promises, and commandments contained in the Good News of His Gospel message, as well as through prayer and service. This effort is accomplished within the context of the student’s family with support from the parish community. “True education is directed towards the formulation of the human person in view of his final end and the good of that society to which he belongs and in the duties of which he will, as an adult, have a share.”  (Declaration on Christian Education, 1)
    

• Summary of Changes for Religious Education 2019-2020

  For Families who have children who have not yet received their First Holy Communion

  • 1 dedicated Atrium space for both level 1 (3-6 year olds) and level 2 (6-7 year olds)
  • CGS curriculum offered at multiple times weekly 
    • Tuesday evenings 5:30pm-7:30pm
    • Wednesday mornings 10am-12pm (starts December)
    • Thursday afternoons 4pm-6pm
    • Thursday evenings 6pm-8pm 
  • Parents will be observing and participating with child(ren)
  • Multiple ages in space at one time with different presentations available
  • Sessions offered weekly on a year round cycle with multi-week breaks to provide roughly 35 sessions 
     

  For Families with children who have made First Holy Communion 

  • Monthly gathering for whole family participation
  • Catechists assigned to support and work with families
  • Materials and resources provided for at home use
  • Feedback solicited for making improvements and accountability
  • Following a liturgical calendar rather than an academic calendar
     

  Phased in approach September through November for upper grades

  9/18 – Fr. Marotti - Family experience

  9/25 – Bishop Bradley - Domestic Church

  10/2 – Guide: Scripture during Mass (Really Knowing Jesus)

  10/9 – Guide: Prayer/Love of God

  10/16 – Guide: Intentional Kindness (Charity)

  10/23 – Guide: Holiness is Possible (Saints)

  11/6 – Guide: Truth (Doctrine)

  11/13 – November Theme: Liturgical Calendar

  12/4 – First Monthly Whole Family Catechesis Night: Incarnation/Our Lady of Gudalupe
   

• Registration

  
  Click here for 2019 Registration 
  
  Please click on the above registration form and submit. You can also have a form emailed to you.
  
  Please make payments to "St Ann Catholic Church" and give it to the Director of Religious Ed or parish office, (not to the teacher or in the collection basket). If there are any problems, email bobbyk@stannaugusta.org.
  
  You can pay online by clicking the link.