sacramentprep

Lamentation of Christ, Botticelli

    CCD Registration Form
    Examination of Conscience
       for Children
    RCIA

acrament Prep

    Registration/Workbook fees
   Registration is August 9th in the school lobby. All classes include a text and/or a
     workbook for which the registration fee helps defray costs and guarantees minimal
     personal investment. Registration is $20 per child or $60 per family. Deadline is
     October 31st , after which eligibility for sacrament prep is postponed until the following
     year. All workbooks and texts are ordered according to the number of paid registration
     forms. To register your child for CCD fill out a registration form and return it with payment
     to the collection basket, parish office, or DRE. For those not baptized at St. John Vianney,
     a baptismal certificate must be submitted for sacrament prep.

    Attendance Policy
    Adequate preparation, and therefore adequate attendance, is required in order to keep
    your child in the current year of sacrament prep. There are 38 total classes in the CCD
    year, 36 weeks of instruction and 2 parties. Your child must be in CCD attendance for
    at least 35 of 38 weeks in order to play SJV sports, and/or receive the sacraments at
    year end. Inadequate attendance forces the postponement of sacrament reception until
    the next cycle of sacrament prep in the fall of the next year.

    All CCD children are eligible for SJV sports, and more information on sports teams is
    available through the parish office. If our attendance policy is a hardship due to divorce or
    other circumstances, we want to help. Contact the DRE before the October 31
    registration deadline to make other attendance arrangements.

    1st Reconciliation and First Holy Communion (2nd grade)
     In speaking of First Communion for children, the Church specifies simply that they
     distinguish the “mystery of Christ” in the Eucharist according to their capacity and
     receive the sacrament with faith and devotion. We seek to prepare them through
     weekly instruction and formation during regular CCD time, and a special retreat
     culminating in the reception of these sacraments.

    1st Reconciliation is held during an Advent Penance Service. Reception of First
    Communion is in May, 2010. To register your child for 1st Reconciliation or First
    Communion, fill out a registration form and return it with payment to the collection
    basket, parish office, or DRE.

    For those not baptized at St. John Vianney, a baptismal certificate must be submitted
    for sacrament prep.

    Confirmation (8th grade)
    The Church specifies that confirmands be “suitably instructed, properly disposed, and
    able to renew the baptismal promises.” With these goals foremost in our minds, the
    preparation program includes weekly instruction, formation requirements, and a retreat,
    all culminating in Confirmation at the Cathedral in May. To register your child for 1st
    Reconciliation or First Communion, fill out a registration form and return it with payment
    to the collection basket, parish office, or DRE.

    For those not baptized at St. John Vianney, a baptismal certificate must be submitted
    for sacrament prep.

    RCIC
    (Rite of Christian Initiation for Children, Grades 3 - 8) Often children miss receiving the
    sacraments according to the usual schedule due to relocation, divorce, or conversion.
    When this is the case, they attend their own initiation classes during regular CCD time,
    designed to instruct them on the rudiments of the faith and prepare them to receive the
    sacraments. To register your child for RCIC fill out a registration form and return it with
    payment to the collection basket, parish office, or DRE.

For those not baptized at St. John Vianney, a baptismal certificate must be submitted
for sacrament prep.