Faith Formation -
Tri-Parishes Catholic Communities

St. Francis - Bridgeport 
St. Mary's Minoa 
St. Matthew's - e. syracuse  

Faith Formation Director ~ Gary Krajacic

Cell Phone: 315-254-9804
Emails:
krajacic@twncy.rr.com or gary.krajacic@gmail.com 

Parish Office: 229 Yates StreetEast Syracuse, NY  13057

Sacrament Updates

Congratulations to our 2019-2020 2nd Grade Class on making your First Holy Communion 

11 - at St. Matthew's on Saturday 8/22/20
9 - at St. Mary's on Sunday 8/23/20
God Bless You all and See you in Church

Confirmation will be November 10, 2020

7:00 PM at St. Matthew's Church

Bishop Lucia will celebrate the Mass

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Dear Parents:
We hope this email finds you, and your families, healthy, safe, and enjoying summer. Thank you for your patience as we get ready for the 2020-2021 Faith Formation program. Normally we would have the Registration Forms out by now, as we all know, we are not in normal times. With schools getting ready to start the new year shortly, we have decided to delay the start of Faith Formation until the week starting October 18th (tentatively) . After being away from the classroom since March, we felt there needed to be a readjustment period and it would allow the children/teens time to get familiar with the new norm. This will also allow us to see what takes place the first couple of weeks in our public schools.

We are carefully evaluating are options at St. Mary’s Parish Center with respect to on-site classes, this is our hope but we are keeping options open for remote learning or home school lessons.

The plan at this time is to hold the classes in the St. Mary’s Parish Center but our first priority is the health and safety of our children, teens and Catechists. We will be working on the class rooms and our procedures that we will need to put in place to meet the Covid-19 Regulations as it is laid out by the Diocese.

We are in the final revisions for the registration form and will have them out shortly, please fill them out and return them to the parish office at 229 W. Yates St. – East Syracuse, NY 13057. As we have in the past, please fill out one registration for each child.

We are looking for volunteers to help with teaching classes, teachers aids and hall monitors, Ideally, we would like to form a committee of volunteers so that would allow us to use volunteers on a rotating schedule so that you do not have to be there every week. If you would like to volunteer please contact me either via email, text (include your name) or phone call. All volunteers are required to take the Safe Environment class to work with our children/teens. All our staff, volunteers and clergy are required by the Diocese to take the Safe Environment program, which requires that they participate in training, background checks and reference checks. I am proud to say that our three Tri-Parishes of St. Francis, St. Mary’s and St. Matthew’s is hard at work to ensure the safety of our children/teens.

Finally, one major change this year is that we are going to incorporate the use of Flocknote as new communication tool for the Faith Formation program. Flocknote is a program design just for church organizations with quick and easy communication while protecting your identity. It gives a better way to communicate quickly and allows better tools for remote teaching. I will send you instructions on how to join Flocknote for Faith Formation program once I get the details worked out.

Thank you all and God Bless

Gary

Gary Krajacic
Faith Formation Director
St. Francis,St. Mary’s and St. Matthew Faith Community
Mailing Address: 229 W. Yates St. – East Syracuse, NY 13057
Phone: Cell 315-254-9804Email: gary.krajacic@gmail.com or krajacic@twcny.rr.com