religious education 2025-2026
Our 5th Year Begins Saturday, Oct 4, 2025!
The F.I.R.E. team is starting to prepare for the new session starting, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025 and runs through, Saturday, May 2, 2026. Links to Registration Form and Scheule are below. There is a registration fee break if registered and paid by Aug 20th, 2025.
There is an Informational/Orientation Family Pot Luck on Saturday, Sept 20 at 5:30 to 7:30.
We are also excited to announce our new CRE(Coordinator of Religious Education), Julie Kreye. Julie has been volunteering with the program for the last several years. She and the team have some great new ideas to share with the your family to make your experience engaging, fruitful and fun for all families members.
For any questions please call the office at 815-398-0853 ask for Julie Kreye
What is F.I.R.E.?
It is a Family Immersed Religious Education and Sacramental preparation program which includes the whole family with a combination of in-person sessions and home schooling where the families are involved in sharing and learning the faith together.
The in-person sessions are as follows:
On first Saturday each month:
3:00 – 4:15 Wahl Hall Sacramental Classes
4:15 Wahl Hall Families sign in for the evening and drop off their family dinner
4:30 Mass in the Church
5:30 After Mass, families return to Wahl Hall to have their family dinner
6:00 Lesson for evening
6:30 Activity related to lesson or our faith in general
7:00 Family Prayer Time and closing blessing
On the 3rd Sunday each month:
9:30 Mass in Church
10:30 -11:45 Wahl Hall Sacramental Classes
The whole family is welcome, including grandparents, younger and old siblings.
“Catechesis is intrinsically linked with the whole of liturgical and sacramental activity, for it is in the sacraments, especially in the Eucharist, that Christ Jesus works in fullness for the transformation of human being… sacramental life is impoverished and very soon turns into hollow ritualism if it is not based on serious knowledge of the meaning of the sacraments, and catechesis becomes intellectualized if it fails to come alive in the sacramental practice.”
Past Events
Monstrance activity
Confirmation activity
Baptism activity
Fr. Grady enrolling 2nd graders in the brown scapular.
Holy Orders Activity – Fr. Joel paper doll
Deacon Paul leading decade of the Rosary
Divine Mercy Activity
Confirmation Lenten cross activity
