Ministries:
Faith Formation
The Office of Faith Formation serves parishes, schools, and families across the Diocese by supporting lifelong growth in the Catholic faith. Grounded in the Church’s mission to make disciples, our department provides resources, training, and guidance for catechetical leaders, sacramental preparation, youth and adult formation, and ongoing spiritual development. We aim to form missionary disciples who joyfully live and share the Gospel in their communities.
Director of Faith Formation
Kerri Frantz
Sacraments of Initiation
The sacraments of Christian initiation—Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist—lay the foundations of every Christian life. “The sharing in the divine nature given to men through the grace of Christ bears a certain likeness to the origin, development, and nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born anew by Baptism, strengthened by the sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the food of eternal life. By means of these sacraments of Christian initiation, they thus receive in increasing measure the treasures of the divine life and advance toward the perfection of charity.”
~Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1212
By Baptism we become members of the Church, the Body of Christ. In Baptism, the Holy Spirit moves us to answer Christ’s call to holiness. In Baptism, we are asked to walk by the light of Christ and to trust in his wisdom. We are invited to submit our hearts to Christ with ever deeper love.
In the celebration of the Eucharist, bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and the instrumentality of the priest. The whole Christ is truly present — body, blood, soul, and divinity — under the appearances of bread and wine, the glorified Christ who rose from the dead. This is what the Church means when she speaks of the “Real Presence” of Christ in the Eucharist.
Confirmation deepens our baptismal life that calls us to be missionary witnesses of Jesus Christ in our families, neighborhoods, society, and the world. . . . We receive the message of faith in a deeper and more intensive manner with great emphasis given to the person of Jesus Christ, who asked the Father to give the Holy Spirit to the Church for building up the community in loving service.
Baptism
First Communion
Confirmation
Franciscan at Home
The Diocese of Shreveport has partnered with the Catechetical Institute of Franciscan University of Steubenville to receive authentically Catholic resources that help to form those within our diocese. All the workshops are available no matter your vocation and at no cost to you! We invite you to participate in any track but most especially in the Eucharistic Renewal Track. Click the button below to start learning!