Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Summer Session 2025
Summer Session will begin with the Holy Mass on Fridays, we will move to the atrium which is a prayer space designed to meet the spiritual and developmental needs of children using the Montessori method. By means of the beauty of silence, self-direction and prayer fostered here, the mystery of the child encounters the mystery of God. Lovely hand-made materials to work and pray with, proclamations of God’s Word, meditation and song, appropriate to the child’s way of approaching God, inviting the child into a lifelong relationship with the Good Shepherd who gives “life to the full”.
Summer Session will continue with bread making from ancient grains and end with nature walks and play outside. Our theme for this summer is Salvation History. Parents are invited to stay. If your child is new to the atrium an orientation for you and your child is required. Please contact Julie Morris for more information.
Ages: Preschool-5th grade ages
Dates: July 18, 2025 – August 29, 2025
Time: 8:15am – noon
Meet up location: Holy Rosary Church Narthex
Pick up location: Holy Rosary Pastoral Center Service Entrance on the North side of the building.
Clothes: Shorts or dresses and shoes that can get wet
Snacks: Please send a snack and water for your child. Please do not pack nuts or peanut butter.
“By praying with their children, by reading the Word of God with them and by introducing them deeply through Christian initiation into the Body of Christ—both the Eucharistic and the ecclesial Body—they become fully parents, in that they are begetters not only of bodily life but also of the life that through the Spirit’s renewal flows from the Cross and Resurrection of Christ.”
– St. John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio
“It is in the bosom of the family that parents are ‘by word and example…the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children.’”
– CCC 1656
“On Sundays and other Holy days of obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in the Mass.”
– Canon Law 1247
