One of the functions of the Religious Education Program of St. Kevin Catholic Church is to prepare each child to celebrate the Sacraments of Initiation, if desired. Faith formation is fostered as the child prepares, with the whole family, to take this next important step on their journey of faith.
However, we want to emphasize that the goal of the St. Kevin Religious Education Program is NOT simply to prepare children to celebrate a sacrament, but to offer continuous formation in the Catholic faith. This formation is NOT completed with the celebration of any sacrament and needs the cooperation and support of the family and sponsors who should be examples of Christian living as part of our journey of faith.
![]() FIRST RECONCILIATION and FIRST COMMUNION Program Requirements:
"The Eucharist is 'the source and summit of the Christian life.' The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch." --Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1324 | ![]() CONFIRMATION Program Requirements:
"... [B]y the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed." --Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1285 |