We are so excited for the Sacrament your family will experience as your child is fully initiated into the Church!

A student is eligible to receive Confirmation if they participated in Faith Formation the year prior to their confirmation year, and is currently enrolled in a Confirmation Class. They are sometimes referred to as Candidates, or Confirmandi. The student will also need to complete a discernment meeting with a member of our clergy. A discernment meeting is just a meeting with a priest or deacon to see where the student is in terms of their faith.

Important qualifications for a "passing" Discernment Meeting:

  • Attends Mass regularly
  • Has a basic knowledge of our Faith outside of what is learned in their Confirmation class
  • Proven knowledge of the key aspects of Confirmation
  • Desire to receive the Sacrament

It is not meant to be a test, but rather a check-in to emphasize the significance of this Sacrament. Depending on how the conversation goes, a child might be asked to redo their meeting at a later date.


The Confirmation packet includes all of the paper work required for the reception of Confirmation!
Confirmation Packet

The sponsor form is part of the Confirmation packet. Click the button below for a digital file if you lose the copy we gave you, or if your sponsor is out of town!

Sponsor Form
Discernment Meeting Study Questions will be provided at a later date!

Below is a document with templates for asking the Baptismal parishes for the correct baptism certificate. Also included is a template for the sponsors to ask their parishes for signatures on their sponsor forms! Copy the template into an email and change the necessary information before sending!
Baptismal Certificate Request and Sponsor Form Signature Email Templates

About 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, (704) 948-0231 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).