Confirmation Preparation
For those who have completed Year One of Confirmation Preparation please consider enrolling in our “Summer” Confirmation Year Two preparation that will be held Thursday’s starting 6/29/23 and be completed on 8/31/23 (no sessions 7/6 and 8/3).
Sessions will be from 7:15pm until 8:45pm and will continue to use the Chosen Series (please bring workbooks used in year one).
For those who have completed 9th grade religious education or catholic school curriculum please consider enrolling in our “summer” confirmation year one preparation that will be held Monday’s starting 6/26/23 and be completed on 8/28/23 (no sessions 7/3 and 7/31).
Sessions will be from 7:15pm until 8:45pm. Summer year one sessions will use the Venture-The Bible Timeline For High School also by Ascension Press.
Due to the condensed nature of the summer preparation programs attendance and follow through will be important. The retreat is in the preliminary planning stages for mid August possibly at St Gregory the Great OR a World Youth Day simulcast event with additional details to follow including date and location of Mass of Confirmation for Year 2 Candidates (hopefully in October at Our Lady of Victory).
Traditional “academic year” fall 2023 through spring of 2024 sessions will be offered as well.
Please follow the links below for enrollment:
Payment and Contact links:
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 10th grade in the fall of 2023.
Candidates will usually meet twice a month (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 year1 will continue to meet twice a month 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