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Children's Faith Formation

- Religious Education Registration Information
  
  We are so happy to welcome everyone back to Religious Education. The above link will take you to our registration packet. This year both CCD and YM will be using the same registration forms. Please complete and submit the forms by September 8th, and be sure to read the important policy information included! Also be sure to use our convenient online payment option below. If you need to pay by check please make payable to Visitation Church and write "Religious Education Registration" in the memo). you can either mail them to: Religious Education Registration, 407 E Main St, Eaton, OH 45320, or place them in an envelope marked "Religious Education Registration" and drop it in the collection basket at Mass. The Archdiocese Permission form will need to be downloaded, completed, and emailed back to the Religious Education office at [email protected] . It is not necessary to electronically sign as a copy of your registration forms will be made available for you to sign at Materials Pick-Up on September 9th. For questions or help with the online registration and payment process, please email Renee at [email protected] .
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- Requirements for 1st Holy Communion
  
  Student's readiness for the sacraments will be assessed on an individual basis by the 2nd grade teacher(s), the ARE, and the Pastor.
  
  Baptism: Child must be baptized. Parents/guardians must submit a baptismal certificate to the religious education office if the child was baptized in another parish.
  
  Prior Year Rule: The child must have completed one complete year of instruction at the 1st grade level prior to the sacrament year in a Catholic parochial school or parish religious education program. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati suggest that a school year is equal to 30 clock hours of instruction.
  
  Attendance: Children in the sacrament grade (2nd Grade) will be given an opportunity to make up 2 absences. Parents are responsible for asking the teacher or the ARE for make-up materials.
  
  Test Scores: Providing reasonable proficiency.
  
  Recommendations of the teacher(s), the ARE, and the Pastor
  
  Family Meeting: Children and parent(s) are expected to attend a meeting early in the school year. First Confession/First Reconciliation information packets will be given out during this initial meeting. Parents are responsible for retaining this information for reference throughout the school year.
  
  Students who complete sacrament preparation classes and meet the above requirements are expected to receive the sacraments at Visitation of BVM Church in Eaton, OH.
- Requirements for Confirmation
  
  Student's readiness for the sacraments will be assessed on an individual basis by the 8th grade teacher(s), the ARE, and the Pastor.
  
  Prior Sacraments: Child must have received Baptism, First Reconciliation, and First Holy Communion prior to the confirmation year. If these sacraments were received at another parish, parent(s)/guardians must submit a copy of the baptismal record from the Church of their baptism.
  
  Prior Year Rule: The child must have completed one complete year of instruction at the 7th grade level prior to the sacrament year in a Catholic parochial school or in a parish religious education program. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati suggests that a school year is 30 clock hours of instruction.
  
  Attendance: Students in the sacrament grade (8th Grade) will be given an opportunity to make up 2 absences.
  
  Test Scores: Provides reasonable proficiency. Parents are resposible for asking the teacher(s) or ARE for make-up materials.
  
  Recommendations of the Teacher(s), the ARE, and the Pastor
  
  Readiness Interviews: During the 2nd Semester of the school year, there will be one interview between student and ARE and/or Pastor
  
  Retreat before Confirmation: One retreat is to be held before receiving the sacrament of Confirmation. Date and time will be determined by the ARE.
  
  Servie Project: Every student will complete six (6) hours of supervised service during their Confirmation year. Opportunities are available at the Knights of Columbus Fish Fry dinners during Lent. Service hours could also be given when the child helps for at least 6 hours during the CARE Program before their 8th grade confirmation year will count toward their service project hours.
  
  Family Meeting: Children and parent(s)/guardians will attend a meeting early in the school year. Confirmation information packets will be given out during this meeting. Parent(s)/guardians are responsible for retaining this information for reference throughout the school year.
  
  Students who complete sacrament preparation classes and meet the above requirements are expected to receive the sacrament of Confirmation at Visitation of BVM Church in Eaton, OH.
- Preble County Catholics - Sunday Mass Schedule 2020 by David A. Doseck

4th Grade Alphabet Prayer

At the beginning of the school year, Mrs. Eby's 4th grade CCD class started on an Alphabet Prayer.   What is an Alphabet Prayer you ask? A special prayer of Thanksgiving that uses every letter of the alphabet to thank God for His many blessings.  We as a class wanted to share it with all of you. Perhaps you will make one too!

A:  For apples and all the wonderful things we can make with them.  For Aunts who love us. For Angels watching over us.  For all the men and women that serve in the Armed Forces.
B:  For butterflies and their beauty.  For bus drivers, brothers, buddies, best friends, babies.  For sweet baby Jesus.
C:  For the colors of Autumn, you are the great artist!  For cats who keep us company.  Caregivers, clothes, children, cousins, and for Christmas time.
D:  For our Dads who teach, care, and protect us.  Doctors and Dentists.  For Dogs as companions.  For the beauty and warmth of daylight.  For doughnuts!
E:  For the Earth, our only home until we reach heaven.  For the gift of the Holy Eucharist and looking forward to an eternity to be in heaven with Jesus.
F:  Thank you God for our priest, Father David.  For our faith, family, friends.  For forgiving us even when we do wrong against you.  For the blessing of all the Farmers who grow our food.  For fall time and the good harvests. 
G:  For you our God andncreator.  For grateful hearts.  For gifts, goodness, gladness, grocery stores, and for good health.
H:  Thank you God for our homes, our nation's Heros who keep us safe.  For holidays, hope, husbands, helping hands, hospitals, healing, for the Holy Spirit, and the gifts of Heaven.  For Harvest time.
I:  For each individual person you have created.  For insturments to make music.  The safety of being inside in the cold weather.  Ice cream, islands, iguanias, ink.
J:  Thank you God for Jesus, our Saviour, for jelly, jam, juice, justice, jumping, judges.
K:  For kindness, kangaroos, and for our King of Kings.
L:  Thank you for Jesus our Lord.  For light, life, love, learning, listening, lunch time, lakes, leaders, limes, Lizzy.
M:  For miracles, Mary our Mother, our moms, movies, meat, milkshakes, and mechanics, and music.
N:  Thank you God for: Saint Nicholas, night, neighbors, names, numbers, nurses, noon time, nieces, and nephews, and each new day.
O:  For oranges, ovens, Oreos, open doors, open hearts, and open minds.  For the oceans and all the creatures you have made that live in them.  The ozone layer that protects the Earth.
P:  For Purgatory so we can prepare to meet You.  Parents who care for us.  For pianos and piano players.  For pop, pinetrees, people, pickles, patience, prayer, peanuts, peanut butter, police, priests, peace, popcorn, pears, and pineapples.
Q:  Thank you for the ability to ask questions so we can learn.  Quiet time to think, rest, and pray.  Quail, Quarters.
R:  Thank you for rain, railroads, rivers, rental cars, rabbits, respect, rivals who challenge us to work harder, red pandas, rules, redemption, relatives, reindeer.
S:  For sunshine, summer, spring, songs, sisters, snow, sewing machines, sinks, showers, sofas, stars, socks, shoes, suprises, Spiritual growth, sheep, sidekicks, Skittles, Saints, Star Wars shows, soft blankets.  
T:  For teachers, telephones, tables, trucks, trains, toys, television, tools, Thanksgiving, tractors, teamwork, toasters, St. Thomas, turtles, travel, thankful hearts. 
U:  For the Universe, USA, understanding, undergarments, umbrellas, Uncles.
V:  Thank you God for: vacations, vocations, vision, Valentine's Day - and St. Valentine, voting rights, valleys, venison, villians, volcanoes, vegetables, very nice people.
W:  For clean water, wonder, words, work, weather, winter, wool and the items made from it, wives, and our world.
X:  Xrays and for Xylophones, Xray technicians.
Y:  For the color yellow, youth, Mary's Yes to be Jesus' mother.
Z:  Thank you for Zebras and Zippers.