Confirmation 2019
St. Emily and St. Thomas Becket candidates for confirmation in April, 2019 have begun their preparation.
The full orientation packet is here.
There are several steps in the process. Please note these dates on your family calendar.
St. Emily and St. Thomas Becket candidates for confirmation in April, 2019 have begun their preparation.
The full orientation packet is here.
- Why be confirmed
- Steps in the preparation process
- Journaling about the corporal and spiritual Works of Mercy
- Some ideas for doing the Corporal Works of Mercy
- Some ideas for doing the Spiritual Works of Mercy
- Choosing a sponsor:
- A sponsor must be a baptized, confirmed and practicing Catholic in good standing
- Must be at least 16 years old.
- Can not be your parent, step-parent, adoptive or foster parent.
- This letter must be filled out by the pastor of the sponsor and returned to the Religious Ed office by January 20.
- Choosing a patron saint
- Look at the liturgical calendar and find out if your birthday is a saint’s feast day. You can find the calendar here.
- Look for patron saints of something that you are interested in. (For example, St. Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the internet!) See the Patron Saints Index.
- Browse and look for someone who did something that you think you would like to live up to. Here is the general site to explore.
There are several steps in the process. Please note these dates on your family calendar.
- Enrollment mass in the fall - Saturday, October 20 at 5:00 PM, followed by a supper. At St. Emily - for both St. Emily and St. Thomas Becket parishioners.
- Pilgrimage in the fall - Tuesday, November 6, at 8:00 AM. This is a day that many public school students have off. The permission slip is here.
Please let Cathy Crino know if you are not off school that day. I will contact the principal at your school about permission to attend this trip.
Quick info about the trip:- Wear clothes suitable for visiting churches. No torn jeans, no t-shirts with slogans, no bare midriffs, no shorts.
- Bring a lunch. We'll supply drinks and a snack.
- Be at St. Emily by 8:00 AM for an 8:30 AM departure.
- Retreat in the winter - Saturday, January 12, 2019 from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Celebration of Confirmation - Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 2:00 PM. (Rehearsal will be Tuesday, April 2 at 7:00 PM.)
Confirmation 2020
St. Emily and St. Thomas Becket candidates for confirmation in Spring, 2020 will begin their preparation in the fall of 2018.
The link to the full orientation packet is here.
Journaling about the corporal and spiritual Works of Mercy
There are several steps in the process. The dates will be set in coordination with the parish calendar in the spring of 2019.
St. Emily and St. Thomas Becket candidates for confirmation in Spring, 2020 will begin their preparation in the fall of 2018.
The link to the full orientation packet is here.
Journaling about the corporal and spiritual Works of Mercy
- Some ideas for doing the Corporal Works of Mercy
- Some ideas for doing the Spiritual Works of Mercy
- A sponsor must be a baptized, confirmed and practicing Catholic in good standing
- Must be at least 16 years old.
- Can not be your parent, step-parent, adoptive or foster parent.
- Look at the liturgical calendar and find out if your birthday is a saint’s feast day. You can find the calendar here.
- Look for patron saints of something that you are interested in. (For example, St. Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the internet!) See the Patron Saints Index.
- Browse and look for someone who did something that you think you would like to live up to. Here is the general site to explore.
There are several steps in the process. The dates will be set in coordination with the parish calendar in the spring of 2019.
- Enrollment mass in the fall, followed by a supper. At St. Emily - for both St. Emily and St. Thomas Becket parishioners.
- Pilgrimage in the fall . This will be on a day that many public school students have off.
- Retreat in the winter on a Saturday. This retreat is mandatory.
- Celebration of Confirmation The date will be determined by Summer, 2019.
Newsletters
We send an email newsletter home periodically to keep you updated on what is happening in the Confirmation program.
If you think you have missed a newsletter, or would like to go back to one, they are linked below.
You can subscribe to have the news sent to another address here.
Some email programs (especially Gmail and Yahoo) put email such as ours into a special tab (such as "Promotions" on Gmail) or into your spam folder. Please look at these instructions to 'whitelist' our email address so that you get all the newsletters.
For those being confirmed in April, 2019
We send an email newsletter home periodically to keep you updated on what is happening in the Confirmation program.
If you think you have missed a newsletter, or would like to go back to one, they are linked below.
You can subscribe to have the news sent to another address here.
Some email programs (especially Gmail and Yahoo) put email such as ours into a special tab (such as "Promotions" on Gmail) or into your spam folder. Please look at these instructions to 'whitelist' our email address so that you get all the newsletters.
For those being confirmed in April, 2019
For those being confirmed in 2020
