The Big Picture

September 2025 All Parish Formation

God wants to share his life with his people.

“God, intimately perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.”  These opening words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church are worth committing to memory, as they are the basis of the answer to the deepest questions that have stirred in the hearts of men and women since the beginning of time: Who am I? Where did I come from? To where am I going?

Come learn more and search
out answers to those questions!

All Parish, In-Person Session Options
Sunday, September 14th at 8:45am at St. John the Baptist
Sunday, September 14th at 5:30pm at St. John the Baptist
Wednesday, September 17th at St. Michael

Please note that September in-person sessions are for adults alone.

What is The Big Picture?

THE BIG PICTURE is our all parish formation program. All adults, parents, teens, and children are invited to learn about the big picture story of the faith and the life God wants to share with us.

At parish wide, in-person sessions of THE BIG PICTURE, adults receive formation apart from the children. The teaching is engaging and informative, geared at helping our adult parishioners understand better what the Church teaches, so that they may believe it more ardently and live it more fully.

For families who participated in Family of Faith last year, know that the format is the same but the name is new when you go to register! Learn more about participating as a family at www.saintmax/org/families.

School children at Blessed Trinity and St. John will receive The Big Picture curriculum in school, but it will be more powerful if parents are learning alongside their children and growing alongside them in the home. To empower school parents in doing so, they are highly encouraged to attend the all parish in-person sessions.

The Big Picture 2025 - 2026 Calendar

Parish Wide, In-Person Sessions have three monthly options:

  • Sundays, 8:45am - 10:15am at St. John the Baptist, Waunakee

  • Sundays, 5:30 - 6:55pm at St. John the Baptist, Waunakee
    Families attending The Big Picture should note because of the late time frame, this option will only provide for children 3rd grade or older.

  • Wednesdays, 6:00 - 7:30pm - St. Michael, Dane

September 2025 (Adults Only)

Sunday, September 14 - Waunakee
Wednesday, September 17 - Dane

October 2025

Wednesday, October 1 - Dane
Sunday, October 5 - Waunakee

November 2025

Sunday, November 2 - Waunakee
Wednesday, November 5 - Dane

December 2025

Wednesday, December 3 - Dane
Sunday, December 7 - Waunakee

January 2026

Sunday, January 4 - Waunakee
Wednesday, January 7 - Dane

February 2026

Sunday, February 1 - Waunakee
Wednesday, February 4 - Dane

March 2026

Sunday, March 1 - Waunakee
Wednesday, March 4 - Dane

April 2026

Sunday, April 12 - Waunakee
Wednesday, April 15 - Dane

May 2026
Wednesday, May 6th | 6:00 - 7:30pm

There is only one session this month at St. John the Baptist in Waunakee so we can learn and celebrate as a parish community.