Erie Tri-County Catholic 
Family of Parishes

For more information, please contact the parish office by email or by phone.

During the summer, our Family of Parishes hosts a Vacation Bible School for young children from JK until grade 6 at St. Mary’s. Youth grade 7 and up are invited to volunteer as group leaders to assist adults in providing this faith filled program. 
Children must be entering JK up until grade six this September to be eligible to come. 

This ministry is extremely vital to all our liturgies in all three of our parishes! At weekend Masses we invite youth in grade three and up to assist the priest at the altar. Youth attend training sessions, retreats, and fun activities outside of the commitment to weekend Masses. Our altar servers become a faith filled group who support one another. Adult altar servers are needed for daily Masses and funeral Masses. Why be an altar server? Best seat in the house! 

If your child is interested in being an Altar Server, please register him or her using this form.  

Kids Korner is a resource table for children found in all three of our parishes. It contains the weekly Children's Bulletin, colouring sheets, crayons, pencils, books, and little stuffed toys for the children to use during Mass. At St. Mary’s Church, it is located inside the Church along the back wall next to the annex entrance, in Sacred Heart and St. Michael’s Churches, you can find the Kids Korner as you enter the Church at the main entrance. Please feel free to help your little ones select whatever they need to feel at home in our parishes!

Sunday School is currently offered at St. Mary’s Church during the 9 am & 11 am Mass; and at Sacred Heart, Langton during the 10:30 am Mass. Children who have been toilet trained and up until grade 2 are called forward at the beginning of the Mass and then proceed to the Sunday School room for a bible story and activities. Children return to the Mass at the Offertory to sit with their parents.

This program is available at St. Mary’s Church for children and teens. Young children should be able to read. The kids’ choir, under the direction of John Vermeeren, leads music once a month at Mass and at special liturgies. For more information, please contact the parish office by email or phone.

Find here some activities to increase faith in catholic children at home.

Father in heaven,
may the faith you have given us
in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother,
and the flame of charity enkindled
in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
reawaken in us the blessed hope
for the coming of your Kingdom.

May your grace transform us
into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.
May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos
in the sure expectation
of a new heaven and a new earth,
when, with the powers of Evil vanquished,
your glory will shine eternally.

May the grace of the Jubilee
reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,
a yearning for the treasures of heaven.
May that same grace spread
the joy and peace of our Redeemer
throughout the earth.
To you our God, eternally blessed,
be glory and praise for ever.
Amen