Confirmation

Confirmation

Sacrament of Initiation

Sacramental Requirements

It is a Diocesan Rule that before any student makes a sacrament, they must have two consecutive years of faith formation prior to making the sacrament. | Es una regla diocesana que antes de que cualquier estudiante haga un sacramento, deben tener dos años consecutivos de catecismo antes de hacer el sacramento.

Confirmation
​To receive the Sacrement of Confirmation, a person must be Baptized and Catholic, and already have received the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.  They also must be registered in our Parish Faith Formation program.  At  the end of the Confirmation Prep Level 3 Course, students who have fulfilled all requirements and have good Mass and Class attendance can make their Confirmation.  Requirements Include: Saint Project (more information to come), letter to Fr. Nate (more information to come), 15 service hours per semester, attend Confirmation Retreat. 
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Para recibir el Sacramento de la Confirmación, una persona debe ser bautizado y católico, y ya han recibido los sacramentos de la Reconciliación y la Primera Comunión. También deben estar inscritos en nuestro programa de Catecismo. Al finalizar el Curso de Preparación para la Confirmación Nivel 3, los alumnos que hayan cumplido con todos los requisitos y tengan una buena asistencia a Misa y Clases, podrán realizar su Confirmación. Los requisitos incluyen: Proyecto Santo (mas informacion por venir), carta al Padre Nate (mas informacion por venir), 15 horas de servicio por semestre, asistir al Retiro de Confirmacion.

Faith Formation Program Information (Información sobre el programa de catecismo)

The Sacrament of Confirmation

At confirmation we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and confirm our baptismal promises. Greater awareness of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conferred through the anointing of chrism oil and the laying on of hands by the Bishop.

Confirmation perfects Baptismal grace; it is the sacrament which gives the Holy Spirit in order to root us more deeply in the divine filiation, incorporate us more firmly into Christ, strengthen our bond with the Church, associate us more closely with her mission, and help us bear witness to the Christian faith in words accompanied by deeds. (CCC 1316)

Through the Sacrament of Confirmation we renew our baptismal promises and commit to living a life of maturity in the Christian faith. As we read in the Lumen Gentium (the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church) from the Second Vatican Council:

Bound more intimately to the Church by the sacrament of confirmation, [the baptized] are endowed by the Holy Spirit with special strength; hence they are more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith both by word and by deed as true witnesses of Christ. (no. 11)

Scriptural Foundation for Confirmation

In the Acts of the Apostles we read of the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. While baptism is the sacrament of new life, confirmation gives birth to that life. Baptism initiates us into the Church and names us as children of God, whereas confirmation calls us forth as God’s children and unites us more fully to the active messianic mission of Christ in the world.


After receiving the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the Apostles went out and confirmed others, showing confirmation to be an individual and separate sacrament: Peter and John at Samaria (Acts 8:5-6, 14-17) and Paul at Ephesus (Acts 19:5-6). Also the Holy Spirit came down on Jews and Gentiles alike in Caesarea, prior to their baptisms. Recognizing this as a confirmation by the Holy Spirit, Peter commanded that they be baptized (cf. Acts 10:47).

For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.

(John 6:27)

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