Confirmation Preparation
- Preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation, in the Diocese of Buffalo, will continue to be a “two year program” of formation and discernment for youth enrolled in the 9th and 10th grades following a standard school year format.
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The parish will continue to utilize the award winning (Association of Catholic Publishers) “Chosen, Your Journey Toward Confirmation” program from Ascension press. The Chosen program was created by Chris Stefanick, an Eternal Word Television Network show host, author and national speaker. Chosen consists of fourteen presenters (via DVD) and a workbook that covers the “A-Z” of confirmation and encountering Jesus Christ and the teachings of His Church.
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For those who have completed 8th grade religious education or catholic school curriculum please consider enrolling in our “summer confirmation year one” preparation that will be held Mondays starting 6/30/25 and be completed on 8/25/25. Sessions will be from 6pm until 7:30pm.
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Due to the condensed nature of the summer preparation program, attendance and follow through will be important. Year two preparation could then be completed Sept 25′-Apr26′, with a Mass of Confirmation during the Easter Season 2026, thus completing preparation in about one calendar year.
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Registration is now open… Please enroll soon, Thank you.
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Traditional fall through spring year one and two sessions, from September 2025- April 2026 will still be offered as in the past. Sign up will be open in late summer. Any questions please contact Confirmation Coordinator at Dlongboat@NativitySchool.net
Please follow the links below for enrollment:
CLICK Payment Portal: Enter Confirmation in Comment Section
Confirmation Coordinator Darren Longboat
dlongboat@nativityschool.net
Confirmation – Year 1
Year 1 enrollments are open to anyone interested in starting a journey towards receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation and are at a minimum entering 9th grade in the fall of 2025.
Candidates meet (please see Faith Formation Calendar) to grow in their understanding and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and his Catholic Church utilizing the publication, Chosen :Your Journey Toward Confirmation program.
All sessions are mandatory and make up sessions will be provided for those candidates who miss a session.
Confirmation – Year 2
Candidates who have completed Year 1 will continue to meet, utilizing the Chosen program and strive to further expand their understanding of the Mass and living out the Catholic Faith. Final preparation for actual reception of the the Sacrament will also be completed.
Any questions regarding Confirmation can be directed to our Confirmation Coordinator Darren Longboat at dlongboat@nativityschool.net
Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the “sacraments of Christian initiation,” whose unity must be safeguarded. It must be explained to the faithful that the reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace. For “by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed.”
CCC 1285
The duty of Christians to take part in the life of the Church impels them to act as witnesses of the Gospel and of the obligations that flow from it. This witness is a transmission of the faith in words and deeds. Witness is an act of justice that establishes the truth or makes it known.
All Christians by the example of their lives and the witness of their word, wherever they live, have an obligation to manifest the new man which they have put on in Baptism and to reveal the power of the Holy Spirit by whom they were strengthened at Confirmation.
Catechism of the Catholic Church Section 2472