Lifelong Faith Formation

† Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned - When was the last time you went to confession? A year ago? Five years ago? Can’t remember? Many adult Catholics, for whatever reason, do not attend confession or participate in the Rite of Reconciliation, therefore, they find it difficult to experience the healing and mercy that is so central to our faith. If you are one of these people, try reading How to Go to Confession When You Don’t Know How by Ann M.S. LeBlanc. This 60 page book outlines the steps of how to participate in the sacrament of reconciliation these days. Our parish has several copies that can be checked out from either church library or from the bookcase in the sanctuary at St. Augustine. If you have any questions about this book, see Ann Northam for additional information.

† ARE YOU BETWEEN THE AGES OF 23-39? The Faith Formation Ministry is looking for Young Adults who are interested in becoming part of the Young Adult Leadership Planning Group. The group will review the suggestions from the Young Adult Focus Group and plan and participate in activities centered around meeting other young adults within the parish, service projects, and many other activities. If interested please contact Tiffany Brown at (502)550-3506; Barbara Turner at (812)284-4290; or Ann Northam at (812)282-1231. New Albany Deanery Young Adult Ministry

The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults 

The weekly RCIA (Rite of Initiation for Adults) is Thursday, 6:00 p.m., in St. Augustine Parish Hall. If you know of someone who is interested in joining the Church, please invite them to RCIA.

RCL Benziger's Apprentices in Faith ... Apprentices in Faith is a unique, online resource for the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), based on the Church’s time-honored model of apprenticeship. It provides RCIA teams and participants with sound liturgical, scriptural, and doctrinal resources to use throughout the RCIA process. Materials for Apprentices in Faith are uploaded quarterly. You will eventually find resources for every Sunday of the three-year lectionary cycle.

   The Catholic Community of Jeffersonville is a member of the online RCLBenziger community. Contact Ann Northam for the username and password. After accessing the Apprentices in Faith site, click on "Members", then choose "Login B: Premium" at the bottom of the page. After logging in, you will see links to different categories of resources across the top of the page. As you scroll over each link, a drop-down box will explain the contents to be found there.

R.C.I.A. Schedule of Classes & Events
PreCatechumenate & Catechumenate

HearGodsCall.com: Everyone has a calling ... What's yours? Learn more about vocations to the priesthood

◊ Dominic Petan is a Transitional Deacon at the Catholic Community of Jeffersonville. Follow Deacon Dominic's BLOG about his journey towards ordination to the priesthood.

◊ Jason Hawman is a seminarian in his third year theology. He is practicing parish ministry at the Catholic Community of Jeffersonville this year with a focus on Catechetical Ministry.

St. Augustine and Sacred Heart Parishioners Answering God's Call

Kyle Rodden on YouTube talks about what he does for fun, what he loves about the Catholic Church and why he joined the seminary.

A native of Jeffersonville and son of St. Augustine Parish, Father Henry F. Tully was ordained on May 21, 1977. Father Harry is currently pastor of St. Mary's of the Annunciation Parish in New Albany, IN.

Jeremy King, OSB, Monk of Saint Meinrad, is a Retreat Director and serves as a musician for the monastic community. Ordained in 1975, he was on the faculty and staff of the seminary schools in the area of liturgy and music. He also spent 12 years in parish ministry in the Diocese of Evansville and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.

Sister Agnes Marie Dauby, Monastery service, Sisters of St. Benedict, Ferdinand, Indiana

Sister Rosemary Dauby, Physician assistant, Sisters of St. Benedict, Ferdinand, Indiana

Deacon John Thompson is a permanent Deacon at the Catholic Community of Jeffersonville.

Sr. Nicolette Etienne's Vocation Story - Sr. Nicolette, a Sister of St. Benedict at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana, shares the joys of Religious life.

Race for Vocations ... The Race for Vocations takes place within the One America Festival Mini Marathon and 5K each May in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Sponsored by the young adults of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, the Race for Vocations welcomes people of all ages to run/walk in the mini or 5k to both promote and pray for vocations to the priesthood, religious life, sacred married life and sacred single life.

    Registration is already open for the 2012 OneAmerica 500 Festival ... hopes are to have 500 members on the 2012 "Race for Vocations" team. For more information about the 2012 "Race for Vocations" team or to sign up for it, log on to www.archindy.org/vocations/race.html.

The Church has good news to proclaim about the family and about human love and sexuality. This good news is important for our children to learn as they are bombarded with many mixed messages from contemporary culture, media and a variety of powerful voices. Catholic sexuality education helps one to understand that sexuality is a gift from God, a precious dimension of human life that requires reverence and care. It sets forth the call to chastity and recognizes the critical importance of the family and particularly parents in the education of their children in human sexuality. Unless the family continually impresses the right attitudes, unless the root values and beliefs of the faith are established in the early years of childhood development in the home, other forms of Christian education can scarcely be effective. In helping parents with this critically important responsibility, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is implementing revisions to the guidelines for chastity and sexuality education in our elementary schools and both elementary and high school faith formation/youth ministry programs.

Our School and Elementary Faith Formation program will be using Benziger Family Life series to provide catechesis on sexuality for our students. This series has been approved by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops for both content and methodology. The role and responsibility of parents in the education of their children regarding faith and sexuality is critical.