Religious Instruction
Religious education is a lifelong process. Its foundations are laid in the home and built on within the parish community.
Throughout life, people learn and grow as they try to make sense of their lives, searching for purpose, meaning and happiness. Our Catholic school plays an important part in this lifelong journey. Its first contribution to the students’ religious education is through the culture and climate of overall school life – the way people treat each other, the religious symbols and celebrations, school prayer, the people and activities that are especially praised and valued, and the values inherent within our school.
This religious dimension is present everywhere in our school: in the playground, the assemblies and the classrooms themselves where every subject contributes to a genuinely religious way of understanding the world. school prayer and liturgy nurture the religious dimension of school .
Within the formal curriculum, Religious Education has a prime place. Born of the Spirit catechetical is the program St. Anthony School follows.
As with other subjects, our teachers help their students to develop specific knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes.
As a Catholic school we do not stand alone. It is in an essential partnership with home and parish. It is in the home that children first encounter religious concepts. They encounter God in the loving relationships of home life, in what is said and celebrated, and in the way everyday life is experienced. Children discover a much larger ‘family’ in their local parish where they can become part of a community in which people worship, express certain beliefs and values, and try to live their lives in a particular way.
The school is part of the mission of the parish. It provides courses in a variety of subjects, designed to develop the mind, the body, the character and the spirit in a particular religious setting. And it offers a vitally important systematic program of Religious Education. All three – home, parish and school – are most likely to do their work effectively when they work in partnership.
Students or/and families wishing to receive the sacraments of reconciliations, communion or confirmation are invited to speak to their teachers. Families wishing to join RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) are encouraged to speak with their teacher or administration or contact Father Christian at St. Anthony Parish.
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