Christian Formation

Welcome to Christian Formation at Transfiguration

Our parish is committed to the goal of providing a happy, safe, and holy environment for each member of our parish family to develop their faith at each stage in his or her life. Catechesis in our parish involves the very young preschooler as well as the eldest members of our community. We fully recognize that our faith journey begins at our Baptism and continues throughout our life. Our comprehensive adult formation program is second to none and more information is available by clicking here.

The Office of Formation coordinates the spiritual development and maturation of our entire parish community. Programs are provided for children, high school aged youth, young adults starting independent life, and parents and mature adults. 

Programs are organized into several categories. To learn more follow the links below:

• Sacraments •
• Adult Formation •
• Children'sFormation •
• Youth Ministry •
• Young Adults •

We are a faith community of over 1,600 families and have over 1,000 participants in our faith formation programs at any given time. Our programs are staffed by hundreds of our own parish membership. Transfiguration’s Christian Formation Programs have a dynamic of openness and gift to each member of our parish!

From the Director of Formation, Dymian Zynda

Discussion and experimentation around the nature and purpose of Adult Formation in the Catholic Church is currently underway.  In the diocese and across the country, models range from a primary focus on education including courses in Scripture, Tradition and Catholicism, to the experiential – retreats and opportunities for service void of any substantial theological foundation.  How’s a Director of Formation to know what to do?

  Upon my arrival at Transfiguration I began a discernment process to better understand the unique identity and charism of our parish.  What I heard time and again was a desire for a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, community and service “beyond the Basin.”

All good discernment begins with listening to God in an effort to discern God’s desires.  Since our parish identity is rooted in the Gospel of the Transfiguration, we need to pay particular attention to what that particular Gospel event is communicating.  Notice, Jesus led his disciples away to experience the glory of God revealed in Jesus.  His transformation was not an isolated incident reserved for him alone; rather, Jesus’ transfiguration is a foretaste of our destiny.  Jesus leads, we follow.  That’s called discipleship.  Discipleship cannot occur unless we know who we are following, and why.  That’s the work of formation – helping to establish and deepen our personal and communal relationship with God through Jesus in the Holy Spirit and to foster intentional discipleship.

Based on the Gospel of the Transfiguration, the Office of Faith Formation serves to help you discover, enrich and deepen an experiential relationship with God, and to better facilitate possible areas of service so as to respond more generously to Jesus’ mandate to care for each other.  To that end, we seek to provide the best possible religious, theological and scriptural education possible for our children, teens and adults.

I welcome your comments and insights as we continue to discern and respond generously to the God who has called us to this mysterious and amazing journey of being transfigured into the likeness of the Son of God.

"Lord, how good it is for us to be here..."  Matthew 17