All Families with school-aged children can be part of our Families of Nazareth Faith Formation.

“Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery-the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the ‘material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.’ Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them.” (CCC 2223)

Here at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, we aim to assist parents in their vital role in raising their children in the Catholic faith. We do this by:

1) Educating the parents, so they will be equipped to educate their children. Parents of children in Grades 1-7 attend once a month sessions where they are given tools they need to grow in faith as a family throughout the month. 

2) Providing opportunities for community. We are not meant to do this alone! The support of other parents is vital. We offer once a month opportunities to gather together as families, for social and spiritual benefits as well as other weekly opportunities.
The 9:00am Mass will be a children's Mass, followed by coffee and donuts.

3) Providing Resources for the Parents and children.
*All families with children in Grades 1-7 will receive A Family of Faith parent book and children's books to use for the year. 
*All families will continue to receive Project Nazareth emails to use as a resource for preparing for Mass. 
*Grade 2 will receive Blessed Reconciliation and First Communion books in addition to A Family of Faith, to help them prepare for the sacraments. 


Please register for Families of Nazareth HERE.