2nd grade prayer partners
We are looking for prayer partners for our 2nd grade students who are preparing for the Sacraments of Reconciliation (January 30) and First Communion. Please contact Kelley if you are willing to be a prayer partner.
Religious Education classes are currently home-based. Materials may be picked up in the clear plastic bin outside the RE office when the church is open or by appointment. Please see the "At Home Religious Education" tab for more details.
January 10: Materials pick up 9:30-10:30
January 24: Church open for 2nd graders
9:30-11:30 am
January 30: First Reconciliation, 10:00 am
Our goal is to support parents in their role as their children's primary teachers and role models in the faith. Our religious education program offers classes for children in preschool through twelfth grade.
Over twenty caring adults from St. Malachy parish participate as Catechists in our program. Our Catechists participate in ongoing training provided by the Sioux City Diocese in order to provide the best opportunity for learning and growing in the Catholic faith for the young people of St. Malachy.
200 children from nine school communities come together on Wednesday nights to grow in their faith together.
“Catholic parents must learn to form their family as a “domestic church,” a church in the home as it were, where God is honored, his law is respected, prayer is a normal event, virtue is transmitted by word and example, and everyone shares the hopes, the problems and sufferings of everyone else. All this is not to advocate a return to some outdated style of living: It is to return to the roots of human development & human happiness!”
– Saint Pope John Paul II
Below are some resources to help your family in building up your domestic church:
Podcasts:
Fountains of Carrots Raspberry Cordial Social Club
Ask Father Josh
The Fr. Mike Podcast
Burrowshire
Blogs/Websites:
Virtues in Practice
Building on Nazareth
Theology of Home
Elizabeth Clare
Carrots for Michelmas
Catholic All Year
Knights of Columbus Family Fully Alive
Books:
The Little Oratory
A Short Guide to Praying as a Family
Discovering God Together
The Year & Our Children
Youtube:
Draw Near (SC Diocese)
Coffee With Crotty (SC Diocese)
Catholic All Year (Kendra Tierney)