i was just wondering when religious ed starts for you guys? or if your kids will be doing religious ed? for us it starts in 1st grade. is that the norm for the other catholics on the board? i think they bus the kids to the church and it's a bit of an early dismissal once a week (like, a half hour early). i think the first confession is in 1st grade, then first communion in 2nd (if it's all still the same). how is it for you guys?
IHNI!!! Isn't that awful??? Having come to Catholicism as a convert, IHNI when CCD starts. I asked Bill, but he didn't know because he went to Catholic school.
I really need to ask my MIL and brush up on all of this stuff!!!
IHNI!!! Isn't that awful??? Having come to Catholicism as a convert, IHNI when CCD starts. I asked Bill, but he didn't know because he went to Catholic school.
I really need to ask my MIL and brush up on all of this stuff!!!
my church's bulletin has some info....that's how i started thinking about all of this. also, i went through this parish as a kid so i figured it would be the same. i'm already freaking out about the bus part! LOL!
it is taught *gasp* in the public schools LOL. (lux being a catholic country)
but you can opt for a "morals" class instead. you must take one of the 2.
both my big kids are really into it - communion in 3rd grade. and they both opted, totally on their own, to be altar-kids and go to the sunday kids mass. now if mass only was not in luxembourgish so i could understand and get into it as well.
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
i know, weird right??
she's not in catholic school. i'm raising them catholic.
they leave at 230 for religion and school ends at 3. it's on thurs afternoon or something. it was the same for us when we were kids in this district. maybe bc it's such a strongly catholic area???
once they're older (maybe 5th grade?) it is a night class. 7pm or something. it continues on like that till confirmation, which i THINK is in 8th grade now but might be 10th - they keep changing that one :)
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
i know, weird right??
she's not in catholic school. i'm raising them catholic.
they leave at 230 for religion and school ends at 3. it's on thurs afternoon or something. it was the same for us when we were kids in this district. maybe bc it's such a strongly catholic area???
once they're older (maybe 5th grade?) it is a night class. 7pm or something. it continues on like that till confirmation, which i THINK is in 8th grade now but might be 10th - they keep changing that one :)
i feel like i just wrote this really unclearly. she'll be in public school, and the public school students who attend CCD leave school a half hour early once a week, go to the church, and have CCD class there. then the parents pick them up there. it cahnges in 5th grade i think, when it becomes a nightclass thing.
It starts in 1st grade, Reconciliation and Communion are both in 2nd grade, Comfirmation in 7th grade.
The kids go every-other-week, after school from 4:15-5:15. After 2nd grade, they go once a week from 4:00-5:15.
They are also required to complete a certain number of community service hours before Confirmation.
There are tests and mandatory church attendance, which I personally think is a bit silly. But then again, I am not a huge fan of my parish or the program.
I think it just depends on where you live and the parish you are in. For example, my husband's God Daughter went through all those things at different ages than his God Son. They live in different areas.
Our CCD starts when they are 3 on Sunday mornings if you want to do that. Since we will enroll E in the Catholic school here, we are not doing the Sunday morning thing. As my one friend said, they get enough of it at school. They do the religion classes during school hours for these kids. The public school kids go during Sunday mornings when they are younger and then in the evenings around middle school age.
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
i know, weird right??
she's not in catholic school. i'm raising them catholic.
they leave at 230 for religion and school ends at 3. it's on thurs afternoon or something. it was the same for us when we were kids in this district. maybe bc it's such a strongly catholic area???
once they're older (maybe 5th grade?) it is a night class. 7pm or something. it continues on like that till confirmation, which i THINK is in 8th grade now but might be 10th - they keep changing that one :)
i feel like i just wrote this really unclearly. she'll be in public school, and the public school students who attend CCD leave school a half hour early once a week, go to the church, and have CCD class there. then the parents pick them up there. it cahnges in 5th grade i think, when it becomes a nightclass thing.
Yeah, never heard of it being done like that. I wonder why they do that? I went to Catholic School till 5th grade, but I know non of the area schools do that.
It starts in 1st grade, Reconciliation and Communion are both in 2nd grade, Comfirmation in 7th grade.
The kids go every-other-week, after school from 4:15-5:15. After 2nd grade, they go once a week from 4:00-5:15.
They are also required to complete a certain number of community service hours before Confirmation.
There are tests and mandatory church attendance, which I personally think is a bit silly. But then again, I am not a huge fan of my parish or the program.
i wonder if they've moved reconciliation up to 2nd grade now where i am. i wonder if it's a state wide thing. we have the mandatory church attendance too. i remember they used to make us bring an envelope with our name on it and we had to put it in the collection basket. lmao. i'm not sure if they still do that, but i think so, because i do see the envelopes in the collection basket as they're being passed around.
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
In Bad Axe, MI where I went to elementary, there is a HUGE Catholic population. Used to be, the catholic kids would get out of regualr school early and be bussed over to whichever church they went to for Catechism (sp?). I think it was only once a week.
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
In Bad Axe, MI where I went to elementary, there is a HUGE Catholic population. Used to be, the catholic kids would get out of regualr school early and be bussed over to whichever church they went to for Catechism (sp?). I think it was only once a week.
I don't know how they do it there now.
ah ok. yeah this catholic population is gigantic. there are other christian churches of course, but nothing like the numbers in the catholic church. other than that, people are jewish (and while there are a lot of jewish people here relative to the rest of the country, it's still a definite minority compared to the catholics here).
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
i know, weird right??
she's not in catholic school. i'm raising them catholic.
they leave at 230 for religion and school ends at 3. it's on thurs afternoon or something. it was the same for us when we were kids in this district. maybe bc it's such a strongly catholic area???
once they're older (maybe 5th grade?) it is a night class. 7pm or something. it continues on like that till confirmation, which i THINK is in 8th grade now but might be 10th - they keep changing that one :)
Kelly, this is how it was for me when I lived in Yonkers as a kid. When we moved to Rockland County, CCD was on Sunday mornings for little kid and Tuesday night for bigger kids.
Here it is Sundays. Starts 1st grade. Although they do offer for younger kids, if you want. Pretty sure communion is 2nd grade, I think that is standard. Not sure about confession.
I am confused. I am currently not catholic,but raised. Is Rachel in a Catholic school?
I went to religious ed because I went to public. I have never heard of kids leaving early to do this from a public school. We had it at like 6 and we had to be dropped off by parent and picked up.
If you go to a catholic school then you do not have to do CCD.
i know, weird right??
she's not in catholic school. i'm raising them catholic.
they leave at 230 for religion and school ends at 3. it's on thurs afternoon or something. it was the same for us when we were kids in this district. maybe bc it's such a strongly catholic area???
once they're older (maybe 5th grade?) it is a night class. 7pm or something. it continues on like that till confirmation, which i THINK is in 8th grade now but might be 10th - they keep changing that one :)
Kelly, this is how it was for me when I lived in Yonkers as a kid. When we moved to Rockland County, CCD was on Sunday mornings for little kid and Tuesday night for bigger kids.
Here it is Sundays. Starts 1st grade. Although they do offer for younger kids, if you want. Pretty sure communion is 2nd grade, I think that is standard. Not sure about confession.
oh interesting that you had this arrangement in yonkers too. prob also predominantly catholic.
Cole is currently already attending religious school
i know this seems to be a "catholic" discussion, but here our reform congregation starts religious school in pre-k
most families start their children in kinder, but we put cole in the pre-K class because he asked about it and LOVES anything to do with talking about God
until jr. high, hebrew school happens on sundays from 9-noon. then in jr. high it really becomes a more full time that as the students prepare for their bar/bat mitvahs.
i'm still learning about all of this, since i grew up in a southern baptist church and there was no formal 'education' process outside of sunday school
