The parishes of Ss. Peter & Paul and St. Thomas the Apostle have a combined program for the parish cluster. All classes are held at St. Thomas the Apostle, unless otherwise stated. Classes are on Wednesday evenings from 6:15-7:30 p.m. The schedule for the 2025-26 school year, will be up on the website soon.

Important reminder:

Due to limited space, you must be a registered member to enroll your child in our program.

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Class Curriculums:

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Pre-Kindergarten (age 4) through 1st Grade

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - Level 1 is the program we use for our youngest students, where trained Catechists teach your child all about Mass and the Gospels, using the Montessori method. Children will learn how to set up an altar, learn about each mass part and what they mean. Gospel readings will come to life as they are able to manipulate the figures in the scripture verses to ponder what they mean. Many of the lessons are based on a Parable or the Life of Jesus. Most of the materials in our Atrium have been hand crafted by volunteers, with much love. The children truly learn and grow in God’s word as they ponder them in God’s silence while working with the materials provided for them in the Atrium.

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2nd Grade

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - Level 2. See above description.

3rd - 6th Grades

​Word of Life, from the Augustine Institute, brings together faith and reason and demonstrates how the truths of the faith speak to the human heart.

The Word of Life curriculum responds to the 2020 Directory for Catechesis and its call to help Christians "give a complete meaning to their existence, educating them in a mentality of faith in keeping with the Gospel (Directory, no. 77). Responding to the needs of contemporary culture and those of modern man requires an "evangelizing catechesis". This catechesis centers on an initial proclamation of the kerygma.

Confirmation - Grades 7-8

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