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Sept. 12: Life
Teen (High School) begins
Sept. 14/15: Cookie Dough
Turn-in #1
Sept. 18/19: Catechetical Sunday
Sept. 18/19: Rite of Acceptance, gr. 8; all
Masses
Sept. 19:
Sunday School Cookie Dough Turn-in
Sept. 21/22: Cookie Dough Delivery #1
Sept. 21/22: Cookie Dough Turn-in #2
Sept. 26:
Rite of Acceptance, gr. 8; 9 am Mass only
Sept. 26:
Sunday School Cookie Dough Delivery
Sept. 28/29: Cookie Dough Delivery #2
Oct. 1/2:
Confirmation Retreats, gr. 8, GPC
Thank you for allowing us to be part of your family’s faith formation!
Classes have begun, but it is never too late to register.
Additional registration information and
forms are available on our Registration Information page (link at left). We already have more than
1,100 students
registered for classes, so classes are beginning to fill up. If you have
not registered your children yet, please do so soon!. We offer Religious Education for
children
age 3 through High School. If
you have questions or need additional help,
please contact the R.E. Office.
Cookie Company Fundraiser
for R.E.
R.E. students will be selling cookie dough through September. This
year we have added the popular Ginger cookie to ‘spice things up’! Yummy
Chocolate chip, Lemon Oatmeal (low-fat!), Oatmeal Raisin, Peanut Butter,
Macadamia White Chocolate, Sugar and Ginger frozen cookie dough sell for $11 a
tub. R.E. receives 4 0%
of the sales to support the needs of our program.
Thank you to
Kent and Ellen Junge of the Cookie Company for supporting us with this
fundraiser and donating cookies for parents to sample at the Parent Meetings.
Invite your family and friends to get their orders ready for all of their Fall
baking needs. Information and forms were sent home with R.E. students or are
can be downloaded here. Please return completed forms and payment into the R.E.
Office.
Cookie Company Cookie Dough Order Form
Help Needed:
If you would like to help sort cookie dough during delivery, please contact
Eileen at 861-4513 with what class session you can help with.
Catechetical Sunday
Catechetical Sunday
is the day
when the United States honors all those who, by virtue of Baptism, hand on the
faith and witness the Gospel to our children, youth and adults.
This year, Catechetical Sunday, September 19, 2010,
will focus on the theme, “Matrimony: Sacrament
of Enduring Love.”
Please support everyone involved in this important
teaching ministry with your prayers.
Catechetical Sunday will be
celebrated Sept. 18/19th at St. Stephen the Martyr. There will be a
blessing for catechists at all Masses.
Marriage: Sacrament of Enduring Love- Spiritual reflection on
the Sacrament of Marriage (from the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops.)
Catholics Come
Home
Have you or someone you
know been away from the Catholic Church?
Catholics Come Home can help Catholics who have left the Church find their way
back home, answer questions for those who are seeking to know God better and
welcome those who are interested in becoming Catholic to the Church.
Please
visit Catholics Come Home
or contact Deacon Denny Dethlefs
at 896-9675 or d.dethlefs@stephen.org.
R.E. Registration
We have new students join us
throughout the year! If you are new to our community or just feel it is
time to get your children involved in Religious Education, we are here to help.
In
addition to providing religious education for our elementary students, we have a
wonderful Sunday School program for children age 3-5, as well as a fabulous Life
Teen program for our high school students.
We also have two multi-age classes for our
Special Needs students. Registration
information and forms are available on the Registration
page of the website. Tuition
assistance is also available due to the generosity of
many individuals and organizations in our parish.
Thank you for allowing us to be part of your family’s faith formation!
If
you have questions or need additional help,
please contact the R.E. Office.
Weather
Announcements and Cancellations
The Religious
Education program observes the school closing policies of the Millard School
District. If Millard Public Schools cancel classes or evening activities
due to inclement weather, we will not hold Religious Education classes or
activities that evening. Closings will be published on the Weather
Information page of the parish website. Any plans for rescheduling activities will also
be posted on the website. All snow and weather related announcements will also be
broadcast on KFAB/KFOR radio and KETV, WOWT, and KMTV television.
Parents
should always use their discretion as to whether it is safe for their children
to attend class.
Life Teen
Life Teen meets on Sundays
from
7:15- 8:45 pm in the Parish Center. To find out more about what is happening,
visit the
Youth Ministry section of our website.
And for more
information about Life Teen, visit
www.lifeteen.com.
Check out 'the Bible Geek' while you are there!
Take Stock in Youth!!
Find out some of the many wonderful things our youth are doing in our
parish and community, and how you can help support their growing faith and good
works.
Take Stock in Youth
Other websites to visit:
Catholics Come Home:
http://www.catholicscomehome.org/
'Life Teen' and 'the Bible Geek'!
www.lifeteen.com
Christopher
West's Articles on 'Theology of the Body'
U.S.C.C.B.:
Laity, Marriage, Family Life
and Youth
Information/activities for families:
www.catholic.org,
www.americancatholic.org
Information on the Bible,
Catechism, current events: www.usccb.org
Daily Scripture Readings:
www.usccb.org/nab
Saints:
www.catholic.org/saints
Vatican-Vatican-
Official Website
Vatican Museums and
Art- Vatican Art
Archdiocese of Omaha:
www.archomaha.com
Vocations-Archdiocese
of Omaha:
Vocations
KVSS Catholic Radio:
KVSS- Spirit Catholic Radio
"Call to Faith":
www.harcourtreligion.com
Adult Formation:
St. Cecilia
Institute for Laity Formation
For more information, please call or
email the Religious Education office.
Phone: (402) 896-5683
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