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Confirmation
The Sacrament of Confirmation
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Our mandatory Confirmation parent/student meeting will be
September 16, 2024 at Saint Hilary Church at 6:00 pm.
Confirmation, like all the Sacraments, is a major encounter with Christ. Confirmation is not just a hoop to jump through. Confirmation is not graduation from Faith Formation, the Church, or a life of faith. It is just the opposite.
Like Baptism and the Eucharist, Confirmation is one of the three sacraments of initiation of the Catholic Church. As the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples who were gathered on Pentecost, so the Holy Spirit comes to every baptized person for whom the Church requests the gift of the Holy Spirit. It secures and strengthens him to be a living witness to Christ.
Confirmation is the Sacrament that completes Baptism; in it the gift of the Holy Spirit is bestowed upon us. Anyone who freely decides to live a life as God's child and asks for God's Spirit under the signs of the imposition of hands and anointing with CHRISM receives the strength to witness to God's love and might in word and deed. He is now a full-fledged, responsible member of the Catholic CHURCH.
Catholic Partner Parishes confirms students in the Spring of 8th grade after two years of instruction.To be confirmed means to make a "covenant" with God. The confirmand says, "Yes, I believe in you, my God; give me your Holy Spirit, so that I might belong entirely to you and never be separated from you and may witness to you throughout my whole life, body and soul, in my words and deeds, on good days and bad." And God says, "Yes, I believe in you, too, my child-and I will give you my Spirit, my very self. I will belong entirely to you. I will never separate myself from you, in this life or eternally in the next. I will be in your body and your soul in your words and deeds. Even if you forget me will still be there-on good days and bad".
To be Confirmed at Catholic Partner Parishes, students need to do the following:- Be enrolled in our Family Catechesis Program.
- If your family is enrolled in a different parish faith formation program and you wish for your child to receive their Sacraments at Partner Parishes, please contact the Faith Formation Office.
- Have attended two years of religious instruction (grade 7 and grade 8).
- Provide a copy of your child's baptism at registration.
- Completed their First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.
- Attend the Confirmation Parent / Student meeting on September 16, 2024.
- Attend all Sacramental prep classes and turn in required information ontime.
- Attend Confirmation Retreat and Rehearsal.
If you have questions, please contact:
Faith Formation Office
Beth Mayer
Family Catechesis Coordinator
Nature of Fire Evangelization
[email protected]
724-225-1425 x308 SJP
724-209-1370 x412 SKDP