Absences
Please be sure to call the Religious Education office if your child/ren will be absent from class.

Parking Lot Safety
We want to remind students to exit cars and walk across the parking lot carefully during drop off times.

Allergies
There is no food or drink allowed in the building. Please finish any snacks before entering. The students may bring a bottle of water to have with them.

As a reminder, if school is cancelled in EITHER the Worcester or Wachusett districts, then there are no religious education classes on that day.

This year we will once again be decorating our Giving Tree with items for those in need. Mrs. Annie Doyle let me know that there is a large need for gloves and mittens for adults. We are asking students in our religious education program to bring in donations of adult mittens and gloves starting next week. Our tree will be in the hallway in the Parish Center as you enter the building for class. Thank you in advance for your generosity!

On Monday, December 16 and Tuesday, December 17, everyone is invited to join the religious education classes in the church for Christmas carols. The students will have regular time in their classrooms with their teacher for the first half of class. We will then head over to the church at 4:45 where our music director, Mr. White will help each grade level lead us in singing a Christmas carol. Students will be dismissed from the church. 

Sunday, December 22 we will meet for our monthly Children's Rosary. Once a month we meet immediately after the 9:00am Mass in the church in front of the Mary Shrine to pray the rosary as a group. We teach the children how to pray the rosary, and the children themselves help to lead each decade when they become more comfortable. All of the students in our religious education program have been working on the prayers that make up the rosary. I hope many will join us to put those prayers together to pray this powerful prayer as a group. We still have time to head down to Coffee Shop after the rosary for donuts, rolls and playing with friends.

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a religious education program for children ages 3-5. The class meets one day a week for an hour. The day for the 2019-2020 school year is Wednesday at 12;00pm. Learn more athttps://www.cgsusa.org/  Please contact Sarah Kelly at sarah.kelly@saintgeorgesparish.org to find out more about this wonderful program. And please help spread the word about this great opportunity for our youngest parishoners. 

1st Reconciliation 
Retreat- January 11, 2020, 2:30-4:00 P.M.
Ceremony- January 25, 2020, 10:00 A.M.

1st Holy Communion
Retreat & Potluck Dinner- Saturday, March 28, 2020, 2:30-6:00 P.M.
Rehearsals- April 28 & 29, 2020 4:15-5:15 P.M.
Mass- Saturday, May 2, 2020 10:00 A.M.

If weekly Mass attendance has not been part of your family life lately, we respectfully ask that you consider making it more of a priority. We respect the fact that you live very busy lives. Sunday morning may be one of the only days to relax a bit, catch up and regroup. Some parents work on Sunday and some children live in two homes. There are also times when children resist the idea of going to Mass. These challenges are difficult but we hope they can be resolved. There are evening Masses or, if necessary, even Mass in a neighboring parish or college if the Mass schedule at St. George is impossible at times. 

St. Joan of Arc 
570 Lincoln St. Worcester     
Sunday 5:30 pm
        
St. Mary's                   
114 Princeton St.,  Holden/Jefferson (Fall & Winter)
Sunday 5:00 pm 

St. John's 
44 Temple St. Worcester 
Saturday and Sunday 7:15 pm

Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Assumption College
Sunday 7:00 pm  late August to mid May