Hello Again, Well we are going to start phase two of the three-phase plan to bring Family Formation to your parish. The start of phase two, also known as Transition Time, involves fine tuning what you were doing in phase one, but this time with a different focus in mind. By phase two you know [...]
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Phase Two, Part 1
July 23, 2010Phase One, Part 4
July 20, 2010Hello Everyone, So, we are over half way done with phase one of three in bringing Family Formation to your parish. This post will cover several things that need to be done to finish phase one. Form your CORE team. These are the people who will commit to praying about Family Formation and help with [...]
Phase One, Part 3
July 15, 2010Hello Everyone, Let’s continue with our three-phase series to bring Family Formation to your parish. We are still in phase one. Phase one tends to be the longest phase. Do the legwork now and it will pay off many times over later. Don’t do the legwork now and you risk running a program that will [...]
Phase One, Part 2
July 12, 2010Hello Again Everyone, Today we are going to pick up where we left off, phase one of transitioning your parish to using Family Formation. After prayer, the best think you can do is talk, talk, talk! Speak to everyone and anyone who will listen about how and why you want to move in this direction. [...]
Three Phase Plan, Part 1
July 8, 2010Hello Everyone, This post will begin a series of posts on how to get Family Formation up and running at your parish. This series is primarily directed to DREs and Faith Formation Coordinators since they are the ones that ultimately have to implement the program. The first thing to realize is that in order to [...]
Pope Benedict XVI and Abuse
March 31, 2010Hello Everyone, I am writing this article in order to set the record straight and give Catholics something to celebrate this season of Lent, namely, being persecuted for the faith. It is helpful to recall the words of Christ Himself in Matthew 5:11-12 “Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter [...]
Lent: Happy Fasters Wanted!
February 10, 2010Hello Everyone, Lent is fast approaching us. Every year I really try to get into the season of Lent but right before it approaches I always feel a loathing inside of me. I usually end up saying to myself, “Great, Lent! Could anything make winter longer, more cold, and bleak?” Not exactly the best attitude [...]
Free Stuff
January 20, 2010Hello Everyone, I would like to announce a contest for the Family Formation Blog! Blogs can be a great thing and a lot of fun but they can be much better when we know what those of you who are reading our blog are thinking. Between now and Jan 30th we want comments on our [...]
Family Formation on the Road
January 5, 2010Recently Family Formation went on the road to give a presentation to the Diocese of New Ulm MN. Bryan Reising was good enough to allow us to come and speak about Family Formation and the importance of family catechesis. We had a group of mostly DRE’s and Youth Ministers and had a good time giving [...]
Contraception Why Not CD
January 5, 2010Hello Church of Saint Paul Families, For those of you who were here for Family Formation on Saturday January 2nd, we had a mix up in the office. All of you should have received Dr. Janet Smith’s CD “Contraception Why Not” If you did not, please be sure to swing by the Family Formation office [...]
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