Registration for our Religious Education Program is open June 5 – August 17, 2023.

St. Katharine Drexel Mission offers faith formation classes for children in grades 1-Confirmation through our Religious Education Program. As parents, you are the primary teachers of passing the Catholic faith to your children.  Our program serves to supplement those teachings using the Diocesan curriculum and supplemental materials.

Religious Education Class Information

Our classes for the 2023-2024 school year will run from September 10, 2023 through May 19, 2024 and are held at Battlefield High School on Sunday mornings from 9:10 – 10:15 AM. Through the program, children will learn what it means to be a faith-filled Catholic and how they can apply these values to their everyday lives.

Please click the button below for more information and the link to register:

Register for Religious Education

Join us in praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy after the 8:00 AM Mass each Sunday at Battlefield High School.

Why do we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet?
We pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for mercy, in our own lives and in our neighbors too. We also pray to remind ourselves that we must rely on God; we must recognize our weakness and replace our anxieties and worries with abounding trust in God.

We will meet in the front of the auditorium after the 8:00 AM Mass. The Chaplet is relatively short taking approximately 10 minutes. Please consider joining us!

Have you seen The Chosen yet? As a parishioner of St. Katharine Drexel Mission, you have an easy and deliberate way to watch it at your
command. Our parish has paid for all of us to plug into FORMED. It is a subscription-based online platform filled with over 4,000 Catholic studies, movies, audio dramas, talks, e-books, and even childrens’ cartoons.

FORMED has content from over 60 apostolates, including Augustine Institute, Ignatius Press, and the Knights of Columbus, with material that is professionally produced, engaging, and solid in its catechism. Much of FORMED’s content is available in both English and Spanish. And you can enjoy FORMED on your computer or on your television with a Roku device or Apple TV. You can even listen on your phone as you commute to work or do chores.

To gain access to all of FORMED’s content, follow these simple steps:

1. Visit www.formed.org.
2. Click “Sign Up.”
3. Choose “Sign Up as a Parishioner.”
4. Enter “20117” and scroll to St Stephen the Martyr & Saint Katharine Drexel Mission then click “Next.”
5. Create a new account by entering your full name and email.

Now you can get the free FORMED app for your phone by searching FORMED Catholic in your app store.

Update:
Saint Katharine Drexel Mission is blessed to have so many generous parishioners. The number of gift cards that were donated this year met and exceeded all the needs on the lists from our local schools. Because of this surplus, we had enough gift cards left over to be able to help an additional school that was brought to our attention because of their large number of exceptionally needy students. Thank you all for helping to make this Christmas much more joyous for so many others.

The Angel Tree Team

 

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In collaboration with our area School Counselors, we hope to provide a bit of Christmas Cheer to students in need. The Angel Tree ministry coordinates with School Counselors who identify area students who could benefit. They then relay the needs to our community, collect donations, and return them to the appropriate school counselors.

We try to take Black Friday into consideration, so we have to move fast! Please consider volunteering to be part of this volunteer ministry.

This program will NOT be able to take place without volunteers! The deadline for volunteers to step up is November 3, 2022.

Contact Ellen Sivick for St Katharine Drexel esivick@saint-stephen.org or 703-754-8444.