The 2021-2022 Youth Faith Formation Forms are now available so you may prepare for youth registration.  If you would like to register your child for Youth Faith Formation, please complete the following steps.

   1) Schedule a guided discernment for your youth.*
   2) Download and complete both YM Form R/2021** and 2021 Form A
   3) Registration is completed at the discernment interview.
Faith Formation Registration this year costs $50 per child for the first three children.

YM Form R/2021 - Saint Ann Youth Registration Form

2021 Form A - Annual Youth Ministry Parental Liability Waiver, Permission and Medical Information
2021 Form D - Adult Liability Waiver, Medical and Promotional Release Form

Discernment is merely the method we employ to make decisions.  Jesus tells us...

"Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?  Otherwise, after alying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, "This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.'  Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whetehr with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?  But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation toa sk for peace terms.  In the same way, everyone of you who does not renaunce all his possessions cannot be my disciple."

-Luke 14:28-33

In discernment then we determine two things.  First we discern what it is that God is asking of us.  In the passage above Jesus uses the example of building a tower or leading an army.  Discerning God's will for us has a lot more to do with understanding what discernment is in the first place and coming to know and love Jesus than it does with knowing what God's will actually is.

Once we begin to establish a relationship, the discernments may begin to turn to learning how to discern what God's will is, but this includes the two hardest steps of actually surrendering to God's will and learning to listen to God.  Within the guided discernments we can hope to prepare the youth to begin doing so through their own personal discernments at home, this last part is primarily up to them.

If you wish to learn more about discernment, click here to view a series of videos about discernment.

Middle School:
Middle School youth will simply select the class corresponding to their grade level.  YFF-6 for 6th grade, YFF-7 for 7th grade, and so on.

High School:
In High School the curriculum is divided up into semesters.  During their first Guided Discernments we will help them choose their classes based upon their previous formation, lived experience and what they have previously learned.  Once they have begun taking these classes, they will likely continue with the next semester after the one they have completed.