Photos from one of our FIRE (Family Intergenerational Religious Education) sessions

• Catholic Curriculum
  This series is offered on a cycle and takes place each year. It is designed to give serious and interested persons an orderly presentation of the faith over a period of four years. One could enter at any time in the Stanford experience and follow the essentials of Catholic Sacramental Theology, Sacred Scripture, Doctrinal issues and, finally, the principles and applications of the Moral teaching of the Church. While these courses are not taken for academic credit, there will be ways that recognition can be given and applied to a certificate or "license" to teach religious education in local parishes and centers. The faculty will be taken from our staff, local theologians, University faculty and graduate students in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

• What Catholics Believe
  This course is offered annualy as a general introduction or overview of the Catholic faith. It is ordinarily offered during either autumn or winter quarter.

• Faith Formation for Children
  All members of our Stanford Catholic comunity are welcome to participate in our Family Intergenerational Religious Education (F.I.R.E.) program. Participants gather in small intergenerational communities of 5 or 6 households where people of all ages learn about our faith together. The F.I.R.E. program is our faith formation experience for the children in our community. For more information and registration, contact Catherine Wolff (650/725-0080, cwolff@stanford.edu).

• The Bishop Pierre Dumaine Lectures
  The late Professor Kurt Reinhardt left a gift in his estate to the Catholic Community to provide for public lectures. There will ordinarily be one such lecture each term: Autumn, Winter and Spring. The series honors the first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San Jose, The Most Rev. Pierre DuMaine, Ph.D. It was Bishop DuMaine who established the Catholic ministry at Stanford as a freestanding personal parish of the San Jose Diocese. The first lecture this year will deal with the serious issue of the relationship between faith and science and will be delivered by William Stoeger, S.J., from the Papal Observatory at the University of Arizona on Monday, 6 November 2006 at 7:30 PM.

• Preparation for Confirmation

• Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)

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