The focus and commitment of PREP is to impart, in collaboration with all our parents, the Catholic faith to our young people, from kindergarten through Confirmation.
Our program prepares children cognitively, spiritually and experientially throughout grade school and middle school, and includes sacramental preparation for Reconciliation, Eucharist, and Confirmation.
Our children, coming primarily from non-parochial schools, benefit from weekly catechesis. Our children live their faith meaningfully and joyfully by participating in social service and a communal life and ministries here at St. Ignatius!
PREP Information is available by email or hard copy by contacting Kristen Bowden.
Registration for New PREP families or siblings coming into PREP:
Complete the PREP registration form online to include all children that will be in PREP.
Make your payment to PREP via FaithDirect or Venmo
(*@Saint-IgnatiusBaltimore).
Choose the “Contribute” button to proceed for payment.
Fee for PREP:
Email [email protected], with an image of your payment.
Your email should include your child’s name and grade change or school change if any.
If you cannot pay online, send a check to our office, attn: Kristen Bowden, written out to St. Ignatius. Keep a record.
Registration for existing PREP families with no additional children entering PREP:
Do not complete the registration form online. Registration is through payment.
Catechesis is led by our gracious volunteer teachers, parents, and parishioners from many walks of life. Teachers lead lessons based on the Gospel and Archdiocesan catechesis materials and use their personal creativity and spirituality to enhance lessons! They are trained in child safety through the Archdiocese.
These are an additional educational supplement. Pamphlets are received in bundles covering a few months.
The editions begin Sunday, September 20th.
Parents are asked to visit the website weekly for the gospel and materials.
Go to Parents, to Readings for Mass, then choose the Sunday that corresponds.
There you will see a child’s version of the gospel.
“Finding God” by Loyola Press, is our classroom textbook for PREP.
It provides an interactive, experiential, Ignatian framework for our learning.
There are wonderful on-line resources that come with it, to accompany the text for both teachers use in the classroom and parents use at home.
They are delineated by grade and contain games and interactive reviews for each chapter.
This year Growing with God replaced our former Benziger Family Life series.
This is distributed for home instruction, and includes information on family relationships, communication, and safety, which is part of the Archdiocese Safe Environment and Child Abuse and Prevention Education.
Families are expected to implement this curriculum unless they complete an ‘Opt Out’ form through the coordinator.
Jessica Mirano
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Monitoring Officer
Ted Engelke
Diageo North America Regional Director
Katherine Engelke
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Physical Therapist
Vince Lyzinski
Faculty at University of Maryland
Liz Stephens-Kalmar
Washington Hospital Ctr., Certified Nurse Midwife
Manon McGuigan
Freelance French & Arabic Analyst
Amy Petkovsek
Child Advocacy Lawyer, Director of Advocacy
All volunteers 14 and over having regular contact with children must complete online training to called “Virtus” to ensure the safety of our children.
Teachers and volunteers must contact Barbara Dailey to initiate training.
A copy of the training certificate must be given to the coordinator, Chris McCullough, before service begins in September.
Thank you.Barbara Dailey
410-727-3848
[email protected]