The Religious Education programming and Sacramental preparation programs (including the OCIA/C) are intended to help us to learn and understand our faith and to know, love and serve God and our neighbor. Throughout our lifetimes God calls us to a closer relationship with Him and His creation. No matter your age, consider taking advantage of all of the opportunities for learning more about our rich faith.
OPPORTUNITIES
FORMED, the Catholic Faith on Demand. Use our parish subscription* to get online content for everyone in the family. *Signup.formed.org; enter 14527 and select Our Lady of the Lakes. Enter your email address, then go to your inbox.
Apps featuring daily Bible reading, music, kid stuff and more are available for free download! Some of the best ones are Ascension, Hallow & the Amen app. God wants to have a robust relationship with us!
Family Faith Formation
The home is the “domestic church.” Is your home a place of peace and reverence? Where prayer is offered, and love, forgiveness, mercy, discernment and encouragement are practiced? These are the characteristics of Christ. Parents, model prayer and pray with your children. Share the great story of God’s love, Salvation History. As a family, count your blessings. Work together for the common good.
To learn as families, we use the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies. At home, by working on the weeklies together, parents will have confidence passing on the faith because they also have weekly pages to complete. Once/month all families will gather for group learning and fun. We begin around Catechetical Sunday (September) and end in May. Print the registration form, ask for one to be sent to you, or pick one up at any of the worship sites. Let’s grow in knowledge, love of the Lord and service.
Additional opportunities to grow in faith exist when we join book/Bible studies, the work of the many committees of the parish, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the Knights of Columbus, OLOL’s Men’s group and through diocesan sponsored events.
The Catechism states the following about believing and faith, “Believing is possible only by grace and the interior helps of the Holy Spirit. But it is no less true that believing is an authentically human act. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is contrary neither to human freedom nor to human reason. Even in human relations it is not contrary to our dignity to believe what other persons tell us about themselves and their intentions, or to trust their promises (for example, when a man and a woman marry) to share a communion of life with one another. If this is so, still less is it contrary to our dignity to “yield by faith the full submission of… intellect and will to God who reveals,” and to share in an interior communion with him.” (CCC 154)
Our Catholic Christianity is based on Scripture and Tradition. It is so rich, it can seem complicated. Uncomplicate it by asking for resources to form your faith.
