Communion/CCD

1st - 5th Grade C.C.D. Registrations

• Must be registered parishioners (bring a your donation envelope or envelope number)
• Copy of Baptismal Certificate for all children in 1st year preparation (no exceptions)
• Children returning for 2nd year preparation need to register as soon as possible in order to hold your place.  (No copy of Baptism certificate required if student was here last year)

The CCD Program is intended for Children from 1st-5th grade.      

     St. Patrick Catholic Church gives children a place to learn about God and their religion; to grow emotionally and spiritually; and to have fun while forming friendships that can last a lifetime.  By offering opportunities for religious education, spiritual formation and for social development, St. Patrick hopes to encourage young children to be fully involved in parish life as they grow.  By focusing not only on the spiritual, but also the social, children learn that church life can be fulfilling and at the same time fun and rewarding.

     The term CCD stands for Confraternity Christian Doctrine and it is an organization founded in Rome as a focus on religious instruction. In modern day usage, CCD is a religious education program provided to children by the Catholic church.

     In the Catholic Faith we offer CCD to children and youth and it is intended to reflect nevertheless a practice and undertaking that appear to have been in the Church from her beginnings. This derives from the very mouth of our Savior, who instructed His Apostles to preach His Good News to every creature (Mark 16:15) and to teach and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20). The initial, exciting, and joyful proclamation of the Faith and the announcement of the consequent hope of salvation it offers, (in the Greek language the kerygma), was always succeeded throughout Church history, it seems, by a further and thorough catechetical teaching of those who had been converted by the kerygma. This was usually called in the Greek language the didache or the didascalia, that is, "the teaching of the Twelve Apostles". As a matter of fact, there is an ancient Christian document, from about the year 60, called by that very name, the Didache, and another from about the beginning of the third century called the Didascalia.
 

For more information on the CCD classes please contact the parish at 956-722-6215
or 956-337-5284 and ask for the CCD Coordinator Mr. Javier Compean or Mrs. Gloria Compean.