{"id":761,"date":"2022-11-21T08:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/?page_id=761"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:25:16","slug":"for-parishes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/for-parishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow in Love in the Parish: A Bridge Between Home, School and Parish Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grow in Love in the Parish<\/strong> encourages parents and children to come together in the parish setting during the children\u2019s First Holy Communion year. It is a real and tangible way to the make the link between home, school and parish, and builds on the success of previous home\/school\/parish programmes such as Do This In Memory.  <\/p>\n<p>As part of the <strong>Grow in Love in the Parish<\/strong> programme, families are invited to come to Mass regularly over the course of the child\u2019s year of preparation for First Holy Communion. Ideas for how to help children and families engage in the Mass are given as part of the <strong>Grow in Love in the Parish Leader Notes.<\/strong> Homily notes are also offered for the priest, together with sample Prayers of the Faithful.<\/p>\n<p>The programme also includes a series of newsletters, which link explicitly with the school-based Grow in Love programme. These are distributed on a monthly basis to families. The themes explored in these newsletters mirror exactly the themes from the Grow in Love programme, including The Rosary, Advent, Baptism and Reconciliation, as well as the Mass itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/769812131\">Click here<\/a> to learn more about Grow in Love in the Parish: A Bridge Between Home, School and Parish Communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grow in Love Connecting Parish and School: A guide for Primary School visitations by priests and other parish personnel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to make concrete the link between school and parish, we encourage priests and parish workers to make regular visits to classrooms in Catholic primary schools. In order to help you to do this, <strong>Grow in Love Connecting Parish and School: A guide for Primary School visitations by priests and other parish personnel<\/strong> has been prepared and is available for purchase.  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grow in Love in the Parish encourages parents and children to come together in the parish setting during the children\u2019s First Holy Communion year. It is a real and tangible way to the make the link between home, school and parish, and builds on the success of previous home\/school\/parish programmes such as Do This In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-761","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19613,"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions\/19613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growinlove.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}