Packets are mailed to families on a monthly basis.  Parents set aside approximately one hour per week to teach their children from the easy-to-use weekly Home Lessons.  The family learns together, enabling parents to draw on common understandings and to incorporate them into teachable moments that arise in the course of day-to-day family life. 

While lessons are geared for children in grades K-6, many families have found ways to include younger and older siblings in the weekly family sessions.  Many parents have reported that the tremendous blessing that has come from Family Formation is that they are learning their faith for the very first time.

Family Formation is based on the three-year liturgical calendar, and lesson topics follow the Sunday Scripture readings.  Celebrating the liturgical seasons draws families into the rhythm of the Church Year.  Through a variety of teaching methods—games, activities, booklets, audio tapes, etc.—the tenets of the faith are covered in the lessons.  A number of supplemental materials are also available to assist parents in their role as the primary educators of their children in the faith.