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St. Catherine’s Confirmation Preparation program is a two-year program. Students usually start Confirmation preparation at St Catherine’s in 7th or 8th grade. The sacrament is then conferred in the 8th or 9th grade.

During the preparation process, students meet during the religious education school year (September-May) between the Sunday morning masses. Throughout the preparation period, students will provide service hours, both individually and as a group, engage in parish and diocesan retreats, and receive instruction for their spiritual growth. Support from families, friends, and sponsors are essential for the students to grow in their faith during the preparation. 

Contact Father Marcin to register your child for Confirmation Preparation. 

If you are an adult Catholic who has not yet been confirmed, we invite you to start the preparation for the sacrament by joining the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. 

Contact Father Jacek to register. 

"It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost.

From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace: 
- it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, 'Abba! Father!';
- it unites us more firmly to Christ; 
- it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us; 
- it renders our bond with the Church more perfect;
- it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross:
'Recall then that you have received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of right judgment and courage, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear in God's presence. Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your hearts.'"
(CCC 1302-1303)