Welcome to the Adult Faith Formation Website Section!

Welcome to the Adult Faith Formation section of our website. This section will provide information on Adult Faith Formation Courses, Workshops, Seminars, and other Adult Faith Formation offerings. The Adult Faith Formation Program will use the USCCB Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation in the United States and the foundation of its structure.

You will see references to and excerpts from this Plan throughout these pages and in 

From the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Document -  "Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us. A Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation in the United States"

"Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?" (Lk 24:32)

The Church's pastoral ministry exists to sustain the work of the Gospel. One way it does this is by nourishing and strengthening laymen and women in their calling and identity as people of faith, as contributors to the life and work of the Church, and as disciples whose mission is to the world. To grow in discipleship throughout life, all believers need and are called to build vibrant parish and diocesan communities of faith and service.

Such communities cannot exist without a strong, complete, and systematic catechesis for all its members. By "complete and systematic" we mean a catechesis that nurtures a profound, lifelong conversion of the whole person and sets forth a comprehensive, contemporary synthesis of the faith,¹ as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This catechesis will help adults to experience the transforming power of grace and to grasp the integrity and beauty of the truths of faith in their harmonious unity and interconnection—a true symphony of faith.

Adult faith formation, by which people consciously grow in the life of Christ through experience, reflection, prayer, and study, must be "the central task in [this] catechetical enterprise,"⁴ becoming "the axis around which revolves the catechesis of childhood and adolescence as well as that of old age."⁵ This can be done specifically through developing in adults a better understanding of and participation in the full sacramental life of the Church.

Please check back often as our Adult Faith Formation offerings will evolve as we re-invigorate our parish Adult Faith Formation program.

For more information on current Adult Faith Formation offerings, or if you are interested in becoming a facilitator in the Adult Faith Formation ministry please get in touch with any of the people listed under "Contact Us". 

Check out our News and Events page for the latest information on Adult Faith Formation!