Religious Education

F.I.R.E.

(Family Centered Intergenerational Religious Education), an experience-based alternative to traditional religious education programs, could be the answer to your prayers.

Worried about your children's love for and understanding of the Catholic Faith?

Want to spend more time sharing and learning about the Faith, and praying with your family?

• F.I.R.E. was designed by parents searching for more effective ways to be both family and Church, and for ways to deepen their own faith while handing faith on to their children.
• An opportunity for parents to spend quality time with their children, to share values with them, and to enter into service to others, as a family, F.I.R.E. makes the effort to connect faith to life in a way that makes life more enjoyable and more liveable.
• Small intergenerational communities, F.I.R.E. is fun, it is more memorable because it involves the whole person and relates to real life.

Who
The Home Group is the basic unit of F.I.R.E. -- Made up of five to seven households. Members range in age from prebirth to a hundred. They are married with children, married without children, single, and friends of children whose families are in a group.

Where
The Ideal setting for F.I.R.E. groups is the home, since this is where families feel most comfortable. Offers the nonverbal message to our children that home is an important place for learning about God, praying together, and becoming community.

When
Home groups meet sixteen times a year, six times in the Advent season (actually spread out throughout the fall), six times in the Lenten season, and four times in the Easter season. A typical meeting lasts one and a half to two hours.