Congratulations on making your 1st Communion!
Class of 2021

​​Izabella Fosdyck 
​Kendall Knapp                       
Wesley Spitzmiller

Lexi Gerels
Wilson Serrano
​Ariadne Tellez    

Please keep these children in your prayers.

Holy Communion augments our union with Christ. The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist in Holy Communion is an intimate union with Christ Jesus. Indeed, the Lord said: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.”  Life in Christ has its foundation in the Eucharistic banquet: “As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.”
                                              ~from the Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Congratulations to our
Confirmation Class of 2022!

Breyden Behncke
Piper Bunker
Austin Clark
Koltin Clark
Alex Hady
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Madelyn Hagedorn
Lillian Lee
Mason Morgan
Alexis Pilgrim
​Layla Serrano

What is Confirmation?

Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:

•  it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, “Abba! Father!”
  
• it unites us more firmly to Christ
  
• it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us
  
• it renders our bond with the Church more perfect
  
• it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross.
  

CCC 1303

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St. Alphonsus
Religious Education Program
Beginning in September, classes meet Wednesday nights from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Classes are available to Pre-school through 8th grade students. For more information about registration or helping out please contact our Director of Religious Education.