Saturday, January 14, 2023

1) No classes next week, the week of January 15, 2023 in observation of Martin Luther King holiday.

2) Improve your relationship with your student and have a more intimate relationship with God:

• Help your child with their homework to name and journal one thing he/she did the past few days that is worth being thankful for.
• Continue to share Sunday’s gospel. The reflections I sent for January 22 and January 29 Sundays are to give you an idea. It works better to read the gospel as a family and give everyone a chance to discuss their thoughts. If anything, you help them practice critical thinking and apply Catholic thought of “faith and reason.”
• Check-in with your student when you pick them up by simply asking one thing they’ve learned.

3) I am putting together a working group called “Rise!” and will have orientation soon to extend multiple formation and evangelization programs to our parish by way of F3 (Faith. Family. Formation.) Text me if you feel being tugged to any of these programs after you prayerfully discern or to simply know more:

• Contact me asap if you can play guitar or keyboard and inclined to be in a worship group.
• Calling all talents with “crafts” to help with “Work of Tiny Hands”, a formation for the very young, ages 4 to 8. This is our version of Vacation Bible School (VBS) but done half-day every 4 months.
• Be a part of founding and building up a young people’s ministry called “60 Beads”, our answer to our angry and noisy world.
• Become an advocate (catechist) in F3. No experience required but a 12 hour course will be provided to get you started. Help develop a primer for advocates to guide with the curriculum.

4) Please plan to attend Family Forum on February 4 at 1PM at the gym. The topic is on family communication. Right after the forum is a required attendance for year 2 Confirmation.  We will discuss the following:

• Two enclosed forms are required.  One is the Sponsor Eligibility and the other is Saint Name assignment your child will need to work with their sponsor.
• Fired Up on February 26 at St Patrick’s-St Vincent’s High School in Vallejo, CA from 9AM-1PM (See flyer).
• You may start paying the Fired Up fee of $35. This includes lunch but not transportation. Maybe you will be able to network with other parents to give or get a ride.
• You may bring payment to the meeting but be prepared to stay longer.  It takes a while to write a receipt for each payment.

There are three ways to make a payment:

a) Write a check payable to “Holy Spirit Church”. Put the name of your child on the remark section of the check. DO NOT GIVE THE CHECK TO THE CATECHIST. Instead drop off at the office anytime using the mail slot at the door. I will give the receipt to your child the next class session.

b) You may pay cash but only if a receipt can be provided at the time of transaction. I encourage you to go to the office during office hours. Please pay exact amount as much as possible.

c) You may pay by credit or debit card but you have to go the office during office hours.  A receipt will be provided to you at the time of transaction.