Information about Catechism classes for school aged Children
in our Parish from Tampere and the surroundings
Dear parents, your child/children can participate in the catechetical teaching either in our church building (A) or in school (B), if Catholic catechesis is being taught in your child’s school.
A. Religious Instructions in the Parish
The Holy Cross parish of Tampere offers religious instruction during the school terms of 2019/2020 in our Church Building in Tampere at Amurinkuja 21. We invite all children and young people, who do not receive Catholic religion class in their schools, to participate. Children come to the church about once a month on Saturday at 9:50 AM.
in our Parish from Tampere and the surroundings
Dear parents, your child/children can participate in the catechetical teaching either in our church building (A) or in school (B), if Catholic catechesis is being taught in your child’s school.
A. Religious Instructions in the Parish
The Holy Cross parish of Tampere offers religious instruction during the school terms of 2019/2020 in our Church Building in Tampere at Amurinkuja 21. We invite all children and young people, who do not receive Catholic religion class in their schools, to participate. Children come to the church about once a month on Saturday at 9:50 AM.
These Saturdays of the 2019 autumn term and of the 2020 spring term are:
31.08.2019 25.01.2020
28.09.2019 15.02.2020
26.10.2019 21.03.2020
23.11.2019 18.04.2020
14.12.2019 16.05.2020
All school-aged children who do not participate in Catholic religious classes in their school are called to this teaching
Please note that children who live outside of Tampere also attend these classes.
It is my hope, that, in spite of the difficulties involved, parents will bring their children to these classes and help the children participate with willingness and joy. During these classes we try to build a Catholic identity and self-esteem, so that they will feel at home in the vast Catholic family. I ask you, the parents, to care for the seeds, which are sown during the classes. Talk to your children about faith; pray with them; share your own thoughts and experiences and be a good example for them. Let us together try to be the living stones of Christ’s Church.
The program for the Saturday classes is as follows:
9.50 Gathering in the parish hall
9.55 Short prayer together in church
10.00-10.45 Class
10.45 Recess (juice and cookies/biscuits)
11.00-11.45 Class
11.45 Recess
12.00-12.30 Church music and tradition (everyone)
12.30 Hot lunch
13.00-13.45 Class
14.00-14.45 Holy Mass for children and their families.
14.40 Time to go home.
I would like to emphasize that participation in Holy Mass in a very important part of your child’s religious education. The Masses on these Saturdays, and always, are meant for everyone, the whole family.
Parents pay at least a part of the cost of these classes: €7 per child per Saturday. This money covers the cost of the electricity, water, heating, food and the teacher’s transportation. But I would like to emphasize, that the most important thing is that the child takes part in these classes. If a family’s financial situation is difficult, there is no charge for the classes.
I ask you to please check that the children have slippers along when they come to class. Boots and other “outdoor” schools are not to be worn inside the rooms, where the children have their classes.
B. Religious instructions in schools
Catholic religion is being taught in the following schools:
- In Kangasala: Huutijärvi School,
- In Ylöjärvi: Siivikkala School,
- In Nokia: Kankaantaa School, Nokianvirran Secondary School,
- In Pirkkala: Nuoliala School,
- In Tampere: Finnish InternationalSchool of Tampere (Fista), North-Hervannan School, Juhannuskylän School.
Please inform the head of the school, that you want Catholic instructions for your children. But if your children attend one of the schools mentioned above, they may be able to even now to join the Catholic religion classes. A Catholic religion teacher, who is our parishioner, works in the Tampere and surrounding county’s schools as a teacher of the Catholic religion. You can ask her about any issue connected with Catholic religious teaching in school for your children. She is Sinikka Meurman (+358404197077), who will be retired on 1.9.2019. Her successors are Luz Syvänen (+358458544855) and Eini Tastula (+358451821800).
May God bless you all abundantly.
Tampere, 12.8.2019
Fr Tri Nguyen
Parish Priest
31.08.2019 25.01.2020
28.09.2019 15.02.2020
26.10.2019 21.03.2020
23.11.2019 18.04.2020
14.12.2019 16.05.2020
All school-aged children who do not participate in Catholic religious classes in their school are called to this teaching
Please note that children who live outside of Tampere also attend these classes.
It is my hope, that, in spite of the difficulties involved, parents will bring their children to these classes and help the children participate with willingness and joy. During these classes we try to build a Catholic identity and self-esteem, so that they will feel at home in the vast Catholic family. I ask you, the parents, to care for the seeds, which are sown during the classes. Talk to your children about faith; pray with them; share your own thoughts and experiences and be a good example for them. Let us together try to be the living stones of Christ’s Church.
The program for the Saturday classes is as follows:
9.50 Gathering in the parish hall
9.55 Short prayer together in church
10.00-10.45 Class
10.45 Recess (juice and cookies/biscuits)
11.00-11.45 Class
11.45 Recess
12.00-12.30 Church music and tradition (everyone)
12.30 Hot lunch
13.00-13.45 Class
14.00-14.45 Holy Mass for children and their families.
14.40 Time to go home.
I would like to emphasize that participation in Holy Mass in a very important part of your child’s religious education. The Masses on these Saturdays, and always, are meant for everyone, the whole family.
Parents pay at least a part of the cost of these classes: €7 per child per Saturday. This money covers the cost of the electricity, water, heating, food and the teacher’s transportation. But I would like to emphasize, that the most important thing is that the child takes part in these classes. If a family’s financial situation is difficult, there is no charge for the classes.
I ask you to please check that the children have slippers along when they come to class. Boots and other “outdoor” schools are not to be worn inside the rooms, where the children have their classes.
B. Religious instructions in schools
Catholic religion is being taught in the following schools:
- In Kangasala: Huutijärvi School,
- In Ylöjärvi: Siivikkala School,
- In Nokia: Kankaantaa School, Nokianvirran Secondary School,
- In Pirkkala: Nuoliala School,
- In Tampere: Finnish InternationalSchool of Tampere (Fista), North-Hervannan School, Juhannuskylän School.
Please inform the head of the school, that you want Catholic instructions for your children. But if your children attend one of the schools mentioned above, they may be able to even now to join the Catholic religion classes. A Catholic religion teacher, who is our parishioner, works in the Tampere and surrounding county’s schools as a teacher of the Catholic religion. You can ask her about any issue connected with Catholic religious teaching in school for your children. She is Sinikka Meurman (+358404197077), who will be retired on 1.9.2019. Her successors are Luz Syvänen (+358458544855) and Eini Tastula (+358451821800).
May God bless you all abundantly.
Tampere, 12.8.2019
Fr Tri Nguyen
Parish Priest