Confirmation

Thank you so much for your desire to find out about our Confirmation preparation process for the 2024-25 school year! Any high school student who has received their First Communion and will be 15 years old by April 30th, 2025 is eligible to begin preparation. If your child is eligible and wants to begin preparation, here are the initial requirements:

  1. Begin attending Renovate, our high school youth ministry program, each Wednesday evening from 6-8PM. Any high school student who wants to receive Confirmation this year must be attending Renovate weekly by November 1 to be eligible for our preparation program.
  2. Students themselves must fill out the Confirmation Request Form  by November 15th.

Once your student is attending Renovate weekly and has filled out the request form, we will reach out to the parent’s email with the next steps for your student to complete. Please note that there is a $40 fee that will be emailed out to the parents for Confirmation preparation to cover the materials/resources used throughout the process. It is due shortly after your student submits the Confirmation Request Form.

Here is a calendar that lists the Renovate dates for the Fall and Spring as well as the Confirmation preparation dates in the Spring. Confirmation preparation nights in the Spring will run from 8:00-8:45pm in addition to Renovate from 6:00-8:00pm.  

All Confirmation candidates must attend each of the 7 preparation nights as well as the day of reflection on April 5 in order to be eligible for Confirmation in May.  We will email the specific date and time of our Confirmation Mass to all parents whose students are in the preparation process later this year once we hear back from the Bishop’s office.

The Catechism's section on Confirmation says that Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Its effects are to:

  • Root us more deeply in divine filiation (being children of God)
  • Unite us more firmly to Christ
  • Increase the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us
  • Strengthen our bond with the Church
  • Associate us more closely to her mission of bearing witness to Christ
  • Help us and more strictly obliges us to spread and defend the faith by word and deed

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Tara Snell, the Administrative Assistant for Faith Formation, at .