Religious Education Family Formation Info & Schedule

Hello Family Formation! Please read the following in order to register for Family Formation, 

St. Barnabas’ 2025-2026 Religious Education program registration is open. You may register here.

For the 2025-2026 school year, Family Formation sessions for grades K-6 will occur monthly. All K-6 sessions will begin in the Church Hall at 8:00 AM. Parents will attend the monthly sessions along with their children. We will begin each monthly session in the Church Hall and, following the opening prayer, children will go with their catechists across the street to classrooms to learn about the coming month’s lessons. One catechist will remain in the Church Hall to instruct the adults. This way, the month’s lesson plans will be presented to children and parents alike. Children will come back across the street at 9:40 AM, and following the session, families will work from home until the next month’s session.

 

To ensure sure continuity in religious development, it is necessary that all children and parents attend monthly sessions regularly.

 

Materials for monthly work will be handed out at the monthly sessions. Children are to be respectful and courteous toward the catechists and other children during sessions. Children are expected to participate, pay attention in sessions, and complete any assignments on time.

Tuition and Fees:

$210 for 1 child

$340 for 2 children 

$415 for 3 children

$435 for 4 children

$45/Eucharist Fee

$55/Confirmation Fee

Religious Education Tuition and Sacramental Fees can be paid by check and mailed to or dropped off at the Rectory at 10134 S. Longwood or through Give Central at the link below. Please mark it for either Religious Education or Sacramental Fees. Please feel free to contact Mr. McGowan at [email protected] or at 773-840-7605 if you have any challenges this year with payment. Pay Tuition and Sacramental Fees here via Give Central.

 

K-6 Family Formation Sessions

Unless otherwise indicated, all Family Formation sessions will begin and end in the St. Barnabas Church Hall and go from 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM. Parents will remain in the Church Hall for the parent session, while children will be dismissed and go across the street with their catechist to St. Barnabas School for their sessions. Dates are as follows: 

 

Sunday, September 14, Catechetical Sunday

Sunday, October 5

Sunday, October 26

Sunday, November 23

Sunday, January 4, 2026

• 8:00 AM to 9:40 AM: Session entirely in St. Barnabas School (students only on January 4, no parents: January 4 session is an archdiocese-mandated session focused on child personal safety)

Sunday, February 1 

Sunday, March 1

Sunday, March 29

Sunday, April 26

Sunday, May 17

 

Additional Formation Sessions for First Communicants

All sessions will be in the school from 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM. These sessions will be “drop off” and ensure our children will be ready for Reconciliation and First Communion. 

Sunday, September 21

Sunday, October 19

Sunday,  November 2

Sunday, March 8

Sunday, April 12

Sunday, April 19