Religious Education for Children
Who Are Deaf

Kevin J. Cody, Director
EMAIL KEVIN
Sherri Rodriguez, Administrative Assistant
210 E. Logan St.
Lemont, Illinois  60439-4207
(630) 257-2371

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Our general goals involve helping to lead each child into a conversion that comes from understanding, relationship, and experience of community. Our primary tasks in this family-centered endeavor include suitable catechesis, Christian spirituality, communal celebration of liturgy, and apostolic service. Since parents have the key role in passing on their faith and teaching their children a Catholic way of life, they are participants in this process.

Jesus always had compassion and felt strongly for the poor and those outside the community. It seems that some within the community feel that as far as the Church is concerned, they are outside the main community – not for anything they have done, but because they are different. If we look to Luke's Gospel, we'll understand that no matter how bad our situation, we are included in the Church because of Jesus. Even when you can't get the resources you need or someone for an interpreted Mass, or if you have to travel distances for religious education or to find a priest who understands – you still have the right to be included. Perhaps making that feeling of inclusion and belonging a reality for our children is one of the greatest challenges we face in this program, especially when they belong to different parishes. One of our primary objectives is to make the children feel welcomed and loved...and to know the love of God.