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Religious Education Program
Our Religious Education Program offers instruction to students in elementary school who are members of St. Adalbert & Sts. Peter and Paul Parish. It offers an eight year course of study in which all Catholic children attending public school are expected to participate. The Program offers an ongoing, continuing development of the Christian person. Our aim is to provide a loving and caring Christian atmosphere in which our parish youth can grow in sound Christ-like attitudes and values.
The Program is designed to assist parents in their sacred responsibility to educate their children in the faith. It complements, but can never replace parents in carrying out their responsibilities. Parents must be acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of their children. None of us can learn to live our faith by limiting religion to weekly sessions nor can we expect children to learn everything in our sessions that meet about 35 hours a year.
In addition to enlightening children in doctrines and tenets of our faith, our Program welcomes the opportunity to aid parents in teaching children to walk along the path of faith. This can only be achieved when parents, through word and example, place Jesus Christ and His teachings at the center of their lives through liturgical worship, frequent prayer, and communication of Christian values and attitudes. In this way, parents make meaningful their professions of belief and nurture faith in their children by showing them the richness and beauty of their lived faith.
Archdiocesan Guidelines
In The National Directory for Catechesis, the Bishops of the United States have established guidelines and set the nature, purpose, aims, tasks, basic content, and appropriate methodologies of catechesis.
The Archdiocese of Newark has also published requirements for Catechesis which ensure a clear and uniform presentation of the faith for each grade level. The textbooks used in our parish are on the list of tests in conformity with these requirements.