Confirmation FAQs

Do You Have a Question about Confirmation?

1. Who’s Eligible? 
   • Youth 6th grade and older who have completed one year of faith formation (2024-2025) and registered for family faith formation for the following school year (2025-2026).     
2. Registered for Faith Formation 2024-2025 but your family didn’t attend regularly?     
   • Regular attendance in faith formation the year prior to Confirmation is required. Confirmation is not a box to check, but rather, completes one’s initiation into the Catholic church to begin the work of missionary discipleship. Register for and attend 2025-2026 faith formation to be eligible for Confirmation prep 2026-2027.     
3. Not part of Family Faith Formation in 2024-2025?    
   • Register for (and attend!)family faith formation 2025-2026 to be eligible for Confirmation prep next school year!       
4. Recently moved from another parish to Holy Spirit?    
   •  If your youth attended faith formation / religious ed 2024-2025, have their former director send a letter to Martha: Your youth may be eligible for Confirmation Prep 2025-2026.     
   • If your child did not attend any faith formation at your previous parish, see answer to question #3.     
5. Go to a Catholic School?    
   •  If your child attended 2024-2025, have their theology teacher or principle send a letter to Martha: Your child may be eligible for Confirmation Prep 2025-2026.     
   •  If your youth did not attend 2024-2025 but is only now registered for 2025-2026, they will be eligible for Confirmation Prep the following year 2026-2027.     
6. Need First Eucharist AND Confirmation?     
   •  Same requirements apply for Confirmation Prep. Additional formation will occur during Confirmation prep year.
7. Want to join the Catholic Church either through Baptism or a Profession of Faith (for those baptized outside the Catholic church)?    
   • Same requirements apply for Confirmation Prep but the process is slightly different, depending on each circumstance. Email Martha for further conversation.
8. Who can be a sponsor?
   • Any person (not the mom or dad) older than 16 who has received all three Catholic Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist (*copies of all sacramental certificates are required)
   • AND is living a life that follows the teaching of the church (i.e. NOT cohabitating or only civilly married). If single, then living celibately. If married, then married in / or with permission of the Catholic Church. (*copy of sacramental marriage certificate is required)
   • AND is a registered and active member of their local parish. (*letter or notice of approval from sponsor’s pastor is required)