Participants' Page

Online Materials
As courses proceed, class handouts, links to reading homework, and other pertinent materials that are normally given to students at class will be available on this web page. Click the links on the left for resources specific to each class.

DLI Bulletins
Each month, the DLI staff communicates with participants via a bulletin which is distributed to students at class and which is also available here. Select a given issue of the bulletin from this list: Will be posted when available...

Participants' Forum
While instructors make every effort to allocate class time for questions, realities of time and numbers prevent every question from being answered. Students may also ask questions via email sent to DLI@straphael.org. The OEC will obtain an answer to the question, either from the instructor or another reliable source. The questions and answers are posted here.

F.O.R.E.M. credit
F.O.R.E.M. (Formation Of Religious Education Ministers) is designed to prepare catechists to serve in the ministry of Catholic education. It is intended for Catholic school teachers, parish religious education catechists, youth ministers, all those involved in any form of adult religious education and education commission/committee personnel.

The courses of the Diocesan Lay Institute may be applied toward the F.O.R.E.M. certification. Keep the credit sheets yourself or give them to your parish religious education office if they keep files for catechists. Once you have completed one level of the program you may submit all the forms to the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis for review.

Certification for the Diocesan Lay Institute Level 1 will be awarded for completion of the work of all ten sessions.