Confirmation - Adults

Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Its effects are to:

• Root us more deeply in divine filiation (being children of God)
• Unites us more firmly to Christ
• Increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us
• Strengthens our bond with the Church
• Associates us more closely to her mission of bearing witness to Christ
• Helps us and more strictly obliges us to spread and defend the faith by word and deed

Confirmation configures Catholics for a full and active mission of service to Christ. In this sense Confirmation is a spiritual “growing up.”

Confirmation imprints in the soul a character, a certain spiritual and indelible Sign, and so can only be received validly once. Confirmed persons are called to profess faith in Christ publicly, and to spread the Gospel message, in accord with the ability and circumstances of their life. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit received in Confirmation are: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. Receiving this Sacrament, with Baptism and Communion, completes a Catholic's initiation into the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

The Sacrament of Confirmation builds on what was begun in Baptism and what was nourished in Holy Eucharist. It completes the process of initiation into the Christian community and it matures the soul for the spiritual work ahead. These sessions are for adults who have been baptized Catholic and made their First Holy Communion. 

Online registration for the 2023 Spring Adult Confirmation Class is now open (see button link below). 

Fr. Callistus will facilitate six one-hour sessions from 1:00 - 2:00 PM:

March 5, 12, 19, 26
April 16, 26
  

Confirmands will be confirmed by Bishop Weisenburger at 5:00 PM on Sunday, May 7.    
 

2023 SPRING ADULT CONFIRMATION REGISTRATION FORM

2023 SPRING ADULT CONFIRMATION SPONSOR FORM

CONGRATULATIONS to the adults below who received the Sacrament of Confirmation on Monday, November 21 at a special Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral:

Confirmation strengthens and empowers us to live and practice our Catholic faith as responsible adult Christians. Through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, Bishop Edward Weisenburger administered the sacrament and called down the Holy Spirit upon them with the words: "Receive the Holy Spirit."

Jesus promised the gift of the Holy Spirit and he did so because none of us can ever take on the mission without the Holy Spirit. His mission for each and everyone of us is to go into the world and make disciples.

Pray that, as confirmed Catholic Christians, their lives may produce a rich harvest of good works.