The Faith Formation Commission is a committee that meet once a month to plan and implement Faith formation for all of our parish members from birth to death.  Faith Formation includes the following six areas:

1. Promotion of Knowledge of the Faith.
2. Liturgical Education.Moral Formation.
3. Moral Formation.
4. Teaching to Pray.
5. Education for Community Life.
6. Missionary Initiation.

We receive monthly communications from the Archdiocese which help inform and guide our programs directions. We provide support and guidance for the following: Faith Formation Classes on Wednesday evenings. High School Faith Formation Core classes on Sunday evenings.  RCIA – Rite of Christian Initiation on Monday evenings.  Ongoing Baptism and confirmation preparation classes.  Ongoing Adult formation which in the past included Small Faith Sharing groups such as: Dynamic Catholic Study groups, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Marriage Initiative, Bible Study and many others.

We provide the Living Faith Booklets, the Advent and Lent Calendars and the Little Blue Advent Books and the Little Black Lent Books.

The Faith Formation Commission is responsible for establishing the Youth Ministry program and our youth minister, Michelle.  We help support and encourage our youth on their journeys to the National Conference, mission trips, youth rally and other events.  We continue to encourage their involvement with our parish.

If you are interested in learning more about any of these ministries of the Faith Formation Commission, please contact one of the members, the parish office or feel free to attend one of our meetings which are held the second Thursday of each month (except July) at 6:30 PM in the Assembly Room. 

Committee Goals

-  To  enrich our parishioners’ faith life through various activities.
-  Promote family participation in the faith formation of their children.

The purpose of our committee is to assist the pastor, or sacramental priest, and the pastoral administrator in facilitating the liturgical prayer of the community. We hop to build the faith of our community through an understanding of our church’s rituals and traditions and giving direction to our parish worship. 
 

Environment

This committee coordinates the atmosphere of the church for each liturgical season, which includes decorating the church and entrances. If interested, please call the office. 
 

Committee Goals

• We will strive to be a more welcoming parish by educating our ushers to greet parish members, and by utilizing school and faith formation families as greeters.
• We will strive to be  more faith filled parish by including the new stewardship prayer to be said before each weekend Mass and by having Father give a brief explanation of Catholic rituals as they occur throughout the liturgical year.
• We will strive to create a more nurturing and inclusive environment by personally inviting members of the Andrew and LaMotte communities, and find more ways to include the students of Sacred Heart school, of the faith formation classes, the middle school and high school in our weekend Liturgies.

It is the purpose of this committee to promote and coordinate programs that will guarantee justice and charity in full measure to all God’s children in the world-wide community. This committee has the responsibility for enabling members of Sacred Heart Parish to respond to the social problems of today, giving special care to the poor, the lonely, the aged, the oppressed and minority groups. 

Committee Goals

• Continue to care for the least among us - which we do with Community Cupboard, Hati and Crop Walk collections and bell ringing.
• Invite the parish to awareness of the Catholic teaching on Social Justice by encouraging stewardship.