The Church's catechetical mission aims to help the faithful of all ages to grow in both human and Christian maturity, enriching the whole of life with the leaven of the Gospel. Consequently, appropriate goals and content will embrace all the faith dimensions of an adult life—for example, understanding and communicating the faith, skills needed for personal growth, the experience of family life, relationships, public service, and concern for the common good.

Three major goals guide and direct efforts in adult faith formation:

1. Invite and Enable Ongoing Conversion to Jesus in Holiness of Life.
2. Promote and Support Active Membership in the Christian Community.
3. Call and Prepare Adults to Act as Disciples in Mission to the World.

The Church and its adult faithful have a mission in and to the world: to share the message of Christ to renew and to transform the social and temporal order. This dual calling to evangelization and justice is integral to the identity of the lay faithful; all are called to it in baptism. Accordingly, faith formation seeks to help each adult believer become "more willing and able to be a Christian disciple in the world." As salt of the earth and light for the world (cf. Mt 5:13-16), adult disciples give witness to God's love and caring will so that, in the power of the Spirit, they renew the face of the earth.

—excerpted from Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us: A Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation in the United States

For more information about Adult Faith Formation opportunities in your parish and diocese, please see below.

Mary: A Biblical Walk with the Blessed Mother

Beginning in October; two locations and taught in two parts
SS. Peter and Paul Church and Saint Michaels Chapel
Adult Formation or Parents with High School Teens
Part I, Saint Michaels, 10:30 to 11:15 am/Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1 and 8
Part II, Saint Michaels, 10:30 to 11:15 am/Feb. 28, Mar. 6, 13, 20
Part I, SS. Peter and Paul Family Life Center,
6:30-8:00 pm/Oct. 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9
Part II, SS. Peter and Paul Family Life Center
6:30-8:00 pm/Feb. 29, Mar. 7, 14, 21
No Materials Required
Deacon Steve Gunther – Facilitator
For more information and to register, please contact Sandy Stasi or Linda
Steinmiller at religioused@ssppeaston.org or call 410-822-6581.

Walking with Purpose: Keeping in Balance

Beginning in September 2023 through May 2024
SS. Peter and Paul Church, Family Life Center
You select morning or evening option: Monday evenings, or
Thursday mornings.
Women’s Study Group: Making Authentic Connections with Other Women
Come along on a journey throughout Scripture as we discover the
relevance of Old and New Testament wisdom to our current daily
challenges. Your lifestyle of health and holiness awaits.
Book required.

For more information, please contact Karen Shanahan at
kjshan74@gmail.com or
call 410-924-2325.

Women of Faith - Follow Me: Jesus in the Gospel of John

Beginning in September 2023 through Spring 2024
SS. Peter and Paul Church, Family Life Center
Monday mornings 9:30 – 11:30 am
Women’s Study Group: Join your sisters in Christ for one of the
longest running and most successful Catholic study groups at SS.
Peter and Paul Church.
Book required.
For more information, please contact Amy Schisler, Facilitator, at
amyschisler@me.com or call 410-725-1693.

Women’s Retreat Days - Clothed in Dignity and Strength: Women of the Bible

Retreat Location: Saints Peter and Paul Family Life Center’s Maria M.
Mitchell Social Hall.
Dates: Saturdays, 9:30 – 5:00
October 14, January 13, and April 13 (Come to one or all three.)
The $30.00 fee per retreat day includes gathering hospitality, lunch, and
workbook.
Keynote Speaker: Amy Schisler

Registration is currently open for the April 13th Women’s Retreat Day. Please contact the Office of Christian Faith Formation to register by emailing religioused@ssppeaston.org or calling 410-822-6581.

“Survival, Mission, Abundance:  No Longer Dead, but Alive”

with Father Mike Joly

Sunday through Tuesday, March 3, 4, and 5

6:30 p.m.

Location:  Saints Peter and Paul Church

Youtube video with Fr. Joly:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sdR77mIlU

Flyer: Father Joly Flyer.docx

Fr. Mike Joly Biography:

Father Mike Joly is a Roman Catholic priest, ordained in 1994.  Having attended Providence College, he secured a B.S. in Human Resources Management.  He obtained his Bachelors of Sacred Theology and Masters of Divinity degrees from Saint Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore. He has served as Parochial Vicar in three parishes, while also spending much time in adult and youth retreat formation.  Fr. Mike has directed an archdiocese retreat center and served as a priest campus minister at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

He is proudly Catholic, a song writer, and a recording artist.  He draws on music as a medium for connecting with the faithful.  Currently, he enjoys serving as pastor of Saint Joan of Arc Parish in Yorktown, Virginia and loves teaching, preaching, singing, witnessing Christ’s movement in others and having a great time in the Kingdom of God.  Totally blind since age six, he nonetheless strives to use his talents and time to celebrate God’s goodness in his own life.  He welcomes opportunities to share what motivates his life and how to approach obstacles.  Finding meaning, purpose, and direction in his own vocation, Fr. Mike works to communicate how universally available this is in everyone’s life.

What is a Parish Mission?

It is customary for every parish to invite a missionary priest to preach a Mission once every three years.  A Parish Mission is one of the extraordinary apostolates of the Catholic Church.  It is a series of sermons concerning salvation and the meaning of persevering in God’s grace and friendship.  The mission will enlighten your mind with God’s Truth and help to detach your heart from sin, and strengthen your will with the love of God.

Who can attend the Mission?

Catholics or non-Catholics are welcome.  Parents should bring their teenagers to the Mission and younger children may come at the discretion of their parents.

What if I cannot come to every night?

The Mission is intended to build throughout the three nights, however, you may come for all or any portion of it.