Drexel Hill Regional Catholic Parish
Religious Education Program
Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment and self-mastery – the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the “material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.” Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them. CCC #2223
Education in the faith by the parents should begin in the child’s earliest years. This already happens when family members help one another to grow in faith by the witness of a Christian life in keeping with the Gospel. Family catechesis precedes, accompanies, and enriches other forms of instruction in the faith. Parents have the mission of teaching their children to pray and to discover their vocation as children of God. The parish is the Eucharistic community and the heart of the liturgical life of Christian families; it is a privileged place for the catechesis of children and parents. CCC #2226
Children who do not attend a Catholic school are encouraged to enroll in PREP. At least 2 years of instruction is required for public school children to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist; 6 years of instruction is required to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Parents/Guardians will register students for classes at the St. Andrew Parish Office or by printing the forms at the below link.
Drop off/send in for each child you are registering:
~ Completed registration forms (printed through the link below)
~ Original + one copy of your child’s Baptismal certificate (new registrations only)
~ Payment
Cash or check made payable to St. Andrew the Apostle
$ 150 – 1 child
$250 – 2 children
$300 – 3 or more children
~ Classes are held at Saint Andrew School, Foss Avenue & School Lane, Drexel Hill
~ Classes meet Mondays from 6:30-7:50pm
~ Classes begin Monday, September 21, 2026
~ Questions: Contact the St. Andrew Parish Office at 610-259-1169
2026-2027 Prep Registration Form FINAL
Please note: BOTH the Family and the Individual Form must be completed for registration. One individual form per child who is enrolled. Kindly click the link above to print the forms, complete them in full and return them to St. Andrew with your fee. Thank you!