In order to accommodate different comfort levels on returning to in person learning, and to be in compliance with safety standards, things will look a little different this year. Below is an explanation of how classes will work at the different grade levels. 

We will to split the year into 2 sessions for grades 1-9.

For Grades 1-5, The 1st session will run from October 19 until the end of January on Mondays or Tuesdays 4:15-5:15pm. The 2nd session will run from the beginning of February until the end of April on Monday or Tuesdays 4:15-5:15pm. Families will choose which session and day their child(ren) would like to attend. There will be 11 in person classes in each of the sessions. During the session that your children are not in person, they will have a monthly Zoom lesson with a family assignment/project to work on throughout the month. 

So, for example,

I could choose to have my children attend in the 1st session. They would come to 11 weekly in person meetings on Monday or Tuesday from October through January. Then they would take part in 4 monthly Zoom lessons with a corresponding family assignment/project February-April.

OR

I could choose to have my children take part in 4 monthly Zoom lessons with corresponding family assignments/projects October-January. They then would come to 11 weekly in person meetings on Monday or Tuesday from February-the end of April. 

The option to complete the typical 2nd grade year sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Communion will be available in both sessions. If you attend in person classes in session one, you will receive your sacraments in session one. Those attending in person classes in session two will receive their sacraments in session two.

Grades 6-9 will follow a similar format with 8 ninety minute in person meetings on Sunday evenings in one session and 3 monthly Zoom meetings in the other session. Grades 6-9 sessions will be mid October-the end of January and February-mid May. Students would be in person for one session and in Zoom meetings in the other. Offering in-person classes will be contingent upon availability of volunteer teachers. Other models will be explored if we experience a shortage of available teachers.

Confirmation will conduct the 6 of their classes in the first semester (October - January) online through an invited Zoom link on Sunday mornings. The hope is that we will be able to conduct the remaining 2 classes, Penance Service, Retreat, and Confirmation practice IN PERSON during the Spring Semester (February-May). All Second Semester dates are TBD based on whether or not the Cathedral will host Confirmation this year or if we will hold the confirmation in local parishes as was needed during the spring of 2020.
 

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