St. Gregory the Great Home Study
Family Religious Education Program 2019-2020
Grades 3, 4, 5, & 6

The Home Study Program is highly recommended for students who are engaged in many extra activities or families with extenuating circumstances. This program option requires a family pledge to assist the child at home with required materials and 7 mandatory catechetical evenings for evaluations and enrichment. The Home Study Program is not open to 1st and 2nd or 7th and 8th grade students as mandated by Diocesan policy.

Please be sure to sign, date and return the Commitment Form and application with your registration form for each child and payment by July 1, 2019.  


Family Requirements

• From September 2019 to April 2020
• Offered for students entering Grades 3, 4, 5 & 6 (excluding 1st & 2nd and 7th & 8th grade sacrament years)
• Requires mandatory parent/child attendance at seven Family Catechesis/Grade level follow-ups (September 2019-April 2020). Click here for the dates. 
• Completion of Home Study Packet
• Weekly participation at Mass and Holy Days of Obligation (Third Commandment)
• Strongly recommend participation in the Sacrament of Reconciliation twice a year
• Family participation in one Church Service Activity (i.e. Loaves & Fishes, Baby bottle collection, Helping Hands)
• Three hours Devotional Practices (i.e., Advent Holy Hour, Stations of the Cross, May Crowning, Corpus Christi Procession)

Family Catechesis Schedule

Classes held in St. Gregory the Great Academy Library (2nd floor)

September 12, 2019 7:00 pm: General Meeting, School Library, (Parents)

October 10, 2019 7:00 pm: Student Grade Level evaluation and speakers (Parents)

November 14, 2019 7:00 pm: Student Grade Level evaluation and speakers (Parents)

January 16, 2020 7:00 pm: Student Grade Level evaluation and speakers (Parents)

February 13, 2020 7:00 pm: Student Grade Level evaluation and speakers (Parents)

March 19, 2020 7:00 pm: Student Grade Level evaluation and speakers (Parents)

April 2, 2020 7:00 pm: Student Grade Level evaluation and speakers (Parents)
Last class-all materials to be handed in.

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