Schedule
Students are expected to participate in the Divine Liturgy each Sunday. This is the Foundation of all Religious Education. Class will begin immediately following the Divine Liturgy and once the opening prayer is said will last for twenty minutes. Please do not pull your child out of class early. Our classroom time is short and any interruption will take away from the lesson.
Attendance
Regular attendance is expected and important to enrich the students understanding and love of our extraordinary faith. Each time your children come to class they will sign in. We have attendance cards that will be filled out by the teacher each week. At the end of the year there will be awards for those who attend regularly.
Holy Communion
We encourage all students to take communion regularly. Having said that they should be properly prepared. They must abstain from eating or drinking before coming to Church. They should approach the chalice reverently remembering to cross them selves before receiving.
Stewardship
Students are encouraged to bring an offering, preferably one that comes from their own allowance or earnings. Students will also be given the opportunities to practice Christian stewardship in conjunction with Philoptochos projects.
Dress Code
Female students are encouraged to make appropriate regarding their dress when attending church. Spaghetti straps, mini skirts and pants are inappropriate for church and should be avoided. Male students are also urged to dress respectfully. When we enter the House of God, we should do so with the utmost respect and humility.
Myrrh-Bearers
Girls from fifth and sixth grades who have regularly attended will earn the privilege of becoming Myrrh-Bearers who will stand guard of the Epitaphio on Good Friday evening.
~Receiving the Children~
Then the little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, But the disciples rebuked them.
But Jesus said “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 19: 13-15
