Pre-Jordan Program for First Time Parents
Thank you for contacting the Parish to have your child baptized into the Catholic faith. Our St. Thomas of Villanova community welcomes you and shares in your great joy!
Since parents are their child’s “first and best” teachers, the parish would like to help you to reaffirm your own faith and to fully embrace and celebrate the sacrament through a short baptismal preparation process (also known as our “Pre-Jordan” program).
Our Pre-Jordan program is required of all parents who are baptizing a child for the first time and highly encouraged for other parents and Godparents who have not taken a course in the past. The program consists of both parents completing an online, self-paced certification course (less then 2 hours) called Belonging: Baptism in the Family of God (produced by the Ascension Press company) and then scheduling a brief follow up call or meeting with our Deacon, Don DiCarlo.
We trust that you will find our Pre-Jordan to be very manageable and meaningful.
Since parents are their child’s “first and best” teachers, the parish would like to help you to reaffirm your own faith and to fully embrace and celebrate the sacrament through a short baptismal preparation process (also known as our “Pre-Jordan” program).
Our Pre-Jordan program is required of all parents who are baptizing a child for the first time and highly encouraged for other parents and Godparents who have not taken a course in the past. The program consists of both parents completing an online, self-paced certification course (less then 2 hours) called Belonging: Baptism in the Family of God (produced by the Ascension Press company) and then scheduling a brief follow up call or meeting with our Deacon, Don DiCarlo.
We trust that you will find our Pre-Jordan to be very manageable and meaningful.
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Again, congratulations! We very much look forward to welcoming your child as the newest member of the St. Thomas of Villanova parish family!!
- Notify Alice Obarski (Parish Liturgist) of your intention to have your child baptized: liturgy@stvparish.org
- Register and complete the certification course using the following link (there is modest cost of $9.95 that the company (not the parish) charges to help produce the program): Belonging, Certification Course – Ascension (ascensionpress.com).
- Once you have finished, please forward Deacon Don a copy of your Completion Certificate at donald_dicarlo@verizon.net.
- Deacon Don will then work with you to arrange a brief call or meeting to review and complete the program.
- Please note that we do require that Pre-Jordan be completed with Deacon Don prior to the baptism date.
Again, congratulations! We very much look forward to welcoming your child as the newest member of the St. Thomas of Villanova parish family!!