​Please read the following important letter regarding our

Parish Religious Education PRogram  at St. Andrew the Apostle:

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J.M.J.

May 2 and 3, 2026
Dear Parents and Guardians of Children in our Parish Religious Education Program, 

It is a blessing to partner with you, the parents and guardians, in the formation of our children in the Catholic faith.  As you are the primary educators of your children, we are thankful for your dedication and commitment to their spiritual
formation and religious education. 

With an enrollment decline at individual parishes, and taking into consideration the results of our recent survey, St. Andrew, St. Bernadette, St. Charles Borromeo, and Sacred Heart (Clifton Heights) will join together in a combined Religious Education Program beginning this Fall, 2026.  Each parish remains focused on their families’ faith development with a desire to equip and strengthen our local community.  By uniting our parishes in this initiative, we are able to strengthen the following three areas: 

1. Supporting continual professional development of catechists
2. Providing opportunities for engagement of parents, guardians, and families
3. Offering the greatest degree of education and formation for our children

Beginning in September, PREP will remain on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:50pm, however, all classes will be held on the campus of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish.  The Saint Andrew School building allows for more classroom space,
plentiful parking, ease of drop off and pick up, and is centrally located.  

We ask that you register your children early so that we may prepare accordingly for our September 21, 2026 start date. Registration forms will be available at each parish and on the parish websites.  Further and more specific details will be shared with you as they become available.

Please join us in prayer as we ask Our Lord to bless this joint initiative so that we may bring all God’s people into the fullness of the Catholic faith.

God bless you and your families,
Fr. Marc Capizzi - St. Andrew the Apostle
Fr. Chris Coffiey - St. Bernadette of Lourdes
Msgr. George Majoros and Fr. Michael Davis - St. Charles Borromeo and Sacred Heart (Clifton Heights)

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• Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children.  They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity and disinterested service are the rule.  The home is well suited for education in the virtues.  This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment and self-mastery - the preconditions of all true freedom.  Parents should teach their children to subordinate the "material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones."  Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children.  By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them.   CCC #2223

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• Education in the faith by the parents should begin in the child's earliest years.  This already happens when family members help one another to grow in faith by the witness of a Christian life in keeping with the Gospel.  Family catechesis precedes, accompanies, and enriches other forms of instruction in the faith.  Parents have the mission of teaching their children to pray and to discover their vocation as children of God.  The parish is the Eucharistic community and the heart of the liturgical life of Christian families; it is a privileged place for the catechesis of children and parents.    CCC #2226

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Children who do not attend a Catholic school are encouraged to enroll in PREP. 

At least 2 years of instruction is required for public school children to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist; 6 years of instruction is required to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. ​

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• Parents/Guardians will register students for classes at the Parish Office or by printing the forms at the below link.   

• Drop off/send in for each child you are registering: 

  • Completed registration forms (printed through the link below)

  • Original + one copy of your child's Baptismal certificate (new registrations only)

  • Payment 

    • ​Cash or check made payable to St. Andrew the Apostle 

      • $ 150 - 1 child​ 

      • $250 - 2 children 

      • $300 - 3 or more children 

• Classes are held at Saint Andrew School, Foss Avenue & School Lane, Drexel Hill

• Classes meet Mondays from 6:30-7:50pm

• Classes begin Monday, September 21, 2026

• Sacraments will be received at St. Andrew the Apostle​

  

Questions: Contact the Parish Office at 610-259-1169

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Please note:  BOTH the Family and the Individual Form must be completed for registration.  One individual form per child who is enrolled.  Kindly click the links above to print the forms, complete them in full and return them to St. Andrew with your fee.  Thank you!​​​​​