Equipping people to live as disciples of Jesus
~Informs, Forms & Transforms the person~

Faith Formation seeks to help people:

~ Grow in their relationship with God for the whole of the life
~ Live as disciples of Jesus at home, work, in the community and in the world
~ Develop an understanding of the Bible and their faith tradition
~ Deepen their spiritual life and practices
~ Engage in service and mission to the world

Six Tasks of Faith Formation

1. Promotes knowledge of the Faith.  By the action of the Holy Spirit creating a desire in us to know Christ, his life and message, faith formation responds by giving the believer knowledge of the content of God’s self-revelation through Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition and introducing them to the meaning of the Creed.  
2. Promotes knowledge of the meaning of the Liturgy and the Sacraments.  Christ is present and his saving action in the Paschal Mystery is celebrated in the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist.  As Catholics, the closest communion with Jesus here on earth is when we receive his living Flesh and his Precious Blood in Holy Communion.  Faith Formation not merely explains but forms the minds of the faithful for prayer, for thanksgiving for repentance, for praying with confidence, and for a community spirit. 
3. Promotes moral formation in Jesus Christ.  Jesus’ moral teaching is an integral part of his message.  Moral catechesis aims to conform the believer to Christ-to bring about personal transformation and conversion with an understanding of the implications for Christian living.  
4. Teaches the Christian how to pray with Christ.  Jesus’ entire life, death and Resurrection were an offering to his Father.  His prayer was always directed toward his Father.  Joining Christ in prayer should be the ordinary environment for all the faithful.  
5. Prepares the Christian to live in community and to participate actively in the Life and mission of the Church.  The base for Christian living is on Christ’s teachings about community life.  It should encourage a spirit of simplicity and humility, a special concern for the poor, particular care for the alienated, a sense of fraternal correction, common prayer, mutual forgiveness and a fraternal love that embraces all these attitudes.  Faith formation encourages one, as a disciple of Jesus to make their daily conduct a shining and convincing testimony to the Gospel.
6. Promotes a missionary spirit that prepares the faithful to be present as Christians in society.  Fostering a spirit of evangelization as disciples of Christ present in society bearing witness to their faith in words and deeds.  Faith Formation nourishes the evangelical attitudes of Jesus Christ in the faithful:  to be poor in spirit, to be compassionate, to be meek, to hear the cry of the injustice, to be merciful, to be pure in heart, to make peace and to accept rejection and persecution.