Registration is now open for the 2024-2025 Confirmation program. See the link below. Registrations are due by Saturday, September 7.
Classes will begin October 3rd in the Parish Center from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
St. Charles School students will have their formation offered during school hours until our retreat in January. School and parish confirmands will join together starting January 13, and continue together every Thursday from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. moving forward.
St. Charles School students will have youth group requirements once a month on October 3, November 7, December 12, and January 9 from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Our Confirmation Team looks forward to meeting all of you!
"Confirmation is the sacrament of initiation in which a baptized person receives special gifts of the Holy Spirit and is strengthened in grace. It is administered typically by a bishop, by anointing of the candidate with chrism (consecrated oil) and making the Sign of the Cross on the forehead saying, 'Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.' Confirmation bestows a permanent character on the soul and cannot be received again.
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."
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1285
Confirmation, one of the sacraments of initiation, deepens our baptismal call and strengthens our relationship with Jesus Christ. Through the gifts of the Holy Spirit bestowed at confirmation, we are better equipped to contemplate and understand the purpose and plan of God and our role in the community of the Church.
October 3 - First Class
October 19 (Saturday) - Parent/Youth Retreat 1:30 - 6:30 p.m.
December 12 - Feast of Guadalupe @ St. Leo 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
January 18-19 - Overnight retreat
April 17 - 20 - Triduum (there will be class on Holy Thursday)
April 27 - Vocation Exploration Retreat, time TBD