During this time of "sheltering in place," when we are not able to partake in the the sacraments, we are proud to offer "Formed" to everyone in the parish.  We will have access for forty days.  It will be free to you, but you will need to sign up for it.

1. Celebrate Holy Week at Home -A different kind of Holy Week - Holy Week begins with Jesus’ journey into Jerusalem to hosannas and shouts of joy. Let us call upon this joyful mindset as we prepare to celebrate this week at home, and open our minds to the creative ways the domestic Church can engage in a prayerful Holy Week. Here are a few activities and resources to inspire our celebrations
2. Holy Week at Home - Family + Faith Collective - God has written upon our hearts, the home. Our mission at Faith + Family Collective is to provide resources to help families share faith in their homes in simple and meaningful ways. We never anticipated just how much time families would be spending at home together, but “for such a time as this” - church is now happening in our homes, and we are realizing even more how much our families need the peace and perspective our faith provides.   
3. Celebrate in these Ways:  Along with celebrating Mass online, Catholics can celebrate daily through the following ways and sharing photos and post with the hashtag #LACatholicsEnterIn during Holy Week and #LACatholicsBelieve on Easter:
    
   Monday: Draw a picture or write a note to those preparing to come into the Church
   Tuesday: (Holy) #GivingTuesday; Make a donation to your parish
   Wednesday: Make an act of perfect contrition
   Holy Thursday: Set your family dinner table
   Good Friday: Venerate a cross
   Holy Saturday: (Holy) #SilentSaturday, Light a candle and spend time in silence
   Easter: Renew your baptismal promises
    
   Additional information on each daily call to action will be available on the archdiocesan Holy Week webpage: lacatholics.org/holyweek
4. Prayer and Connection in time of Crisis- You may have heard the term spiritual communion used frequently in recent weeks. This term means that through our prayers we express our relationship with Christ and our desire for a deeper union with him. This understanding has long been a part of our Church's tradition. Through baptism, we are already united with Christ as sons and daughters of God. In the Eucharist, we experience a unique union with Christ, by receiving him both physically and spiritually into ourselves.

   LTP has always been committed to offering prayer and formation resources in the hope of fostering our communion with God and others. As events continue to evolve, so do our efforts to bring prayer and spiritual resources that will help you stay connected to each other and to God. We're hopeful that the free resources and virtual offerings on this page help maintain community and bring hope to the Church during this time.

5. Virutal Easter Egg Hunt

Dear Families,
I hope everyone is well.  I wanted to give you an update of how we will be handling faith formation.

Our Faith Formation sessions will continue to be canceled through the first of May.  Below you will find different options to continue some type of formation while we are shutdown.  After what would have been our Easter break, I will send out links for Kahoot so the children can review what they have learned plus some new information.

Parents of our first year first communion sessions, please continue to work on the prayers with your children.

We will continue to have our second year first communion sessions online.

Parents, we also encourage you to keep the Sabbath day – Sunday.  We are live streaming the 9:30 am Mass, and there are other options – Bishop Barron is live streaming as well as Archbishop Gomez.  The Celebrating Sunday for Catholic Families which everyone received at the beginning of the year is a great tool to use to get the most out of the Mass.

We will keep each of you in our prayers, and pray that we will be back to normal soon. I will continue to keep in touch with you.  If I can be of any assistance, please let me know.

God Bless,
Kellie

Here are some things you can do with your family:
Faith Formation: We left off at Chapter 10.  You can work on these and do everything but the work pages.
Grade 1:  https://www.smp.org/resourcecenter/resource/13536/
Grade 3:  https://www.smp.org/resourcecenter/resource/13538/
Grade 4:  https://www.smp.org/resourcecenter/resource/13539/
Grade 5:  https://www.smp.org/resourcecenter/resource/13540/
 
COMPLIMENTARY ACCESS to Living Faith Kids Reflections  http://www.livingfaith.com/

Mass:
St. Bartholomew –During this time of "sheltering in place," we invite you to join us every Sunday at 9:30 am when St. Bartholomew will livestream Mass. Go to St. Bartholomew's Facebook Page (Facebook/StBartholomewLB) for livestreaming, or our webpage: https://stbartholomewcclb.org/

Bishop Baron – Daily Mass - https://www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIldfnkt246AIVkNlkCh3u8QBoEAAYASAAEgIxnfD_BwE

Archbishop Gomez - at lacatholics.org/mass-for-the-homebound; Catholic media are also helping to bring Holy Mass directly to Catholic faithful airing Masses in English and Spanish on cable, radio and via the internet on El Sembrador (ESNE) TV/Radio, Guadalupe Radio, Relevant Radio and The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM.
 
Holy week – LTP is offering virtual items for holy week:
https://events-na11.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/1081707727/en/events/catalog.html?folder-id=2638982016&from-origin=ltp.adobeconnect.com&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=e1cf489eb78de19860604c6923cf4ff5c0d93c2c3287c1323984f7d2ab80eb6a