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Conference moira::parenting

Title:Parenting
Notice:Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3
Moderator:GEMEVN::FAIMANY
Created:Thu Apr 09 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1292
Total number of notes:34837

1032.0. "Religious Education " by EVER::LALIBERTE (GT&NS Tech Services) Thu Oct 05 1995 17:06

    Can someone fill me in on the current religious education practices
    for CCD classes for Catholic children ?  I am in the Greater
    Boston area. 
    
    Do the classes start at first grade, at what grade do they take
    First Communion, and until what grade do they continue ? Does this 
    differ by parish ?
    
    Who teaches the classes and where are they usually held ? Do
    they allow home-schooling ? Do the childen have to take a
    any type of test before First Communion ?(which I now believe is First
    Penance/First Eucharist).
    
    Thanks.
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1032.1some pastors ok with itSTOWOA::SPERAThu Oct 05 1995 17:218
    I have some friends who are home schoolers and who have managed to get
    the Church to allow their children the sacraments. I can put you in
    touch if you like. They are at a parish in Brighton (Boston).
    
    I think they have developed their own education process and have been
    able to ddemonstrate to the pastor that the kids are attuned. Of
    course, he sees them with their children in Church every week so that
    helps.
1032.2USCTR1::pelkey.ogo.dec.com::pelkeylife aint for the squeamishThu Oct 05 1995 18:008
well, the way it goes in our parts, (Leominster/Fitchburg)

Classes start at 1st grade, and continue up to confirmation,
which in the parish we belong is I think 11th grade...

I think first communion for my kids was 3rd or 4th grade....

/r
1032.3Acton, Littleton, and vicinityTUXEDO::FRIDAYDCE: The real world is distributed too.Fri Oct 06 1995 12:4010
    In Acton, at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church,
    classes start at 1st grade, first Eucharist
    is 2nd grade (which includes OPTIONAL
    first experience with Penance), and classes
    continue up through confirmation.  I believe it's
    similar in other parishes in the vicinity.
    
    The classes are generally run by volunteer parents
    and are at various parents homes with about 10-12
    children per class.
1032.4Update termsHNDYMN::MCCARTHYA Quinn Martin ProductionFri Oct 06 1995 12:585
>>    first experience with Penance)

I thought its "new name" was Reconsiliation (sp?)

bjm
1032.5TUXEDO::FRIDAYDCE: The real world is distributed too.Mon Oct 09 1995 12:268
    re .1
    >>>I thought its "new name" was Reconsiliation (sp?)
    It is.  But I recall waaaaaay back when it was just
    confession.  Took me a long time to start saying
    penance.  Maybe next decade I'll  be saying
    reconciliation.
    
    :)
1032.6Info for Westboro CCDUSCTR1::BUZZELLTue Oct 10 1995 15:3018
    I teach 4th grade CCD classes in Westboro.  Our parish teaches CCD 
    from K-12.  2nd graders here receive their First Communion and 4th
    grade receives their First Penance. (In my parish it's still "First
    Penance".  Parents have the option of having their child receive both
    together in 2nd grade.  First Communion and Penance are taught seperate
    from the CCD classes.  They usually meet after school for 1 or 2 weeks
    every day, usually around April.
    
    Our regular CCD classes are on Saturday's (3rd,4th,5th & 6th), Sunday's
    for the younger grades and evening for the older grades.  We have a
    Parish center with classrooms, so most classes are held there. 
    
    Our CCD program starts this Saturday.  There are usually about 10 in 
    each class.
    
    Hope this helps!
    
    Joan