Confirmation

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Participation

In the spring of 2025, middle school students who have been through at least two consecutive years of family formation will prepare for and receive Confirmation.

To be confirmed, a candidate must participate in the entirety of our program. The family is to attend all the monthly Family Faith Formation Sessions. The candidate is to participate in Christian Service Activities, and all three of the preparation sessions in the months just prior to Confirmation. Events are highly interactive in nature and are not replicable. If the dates for one cycle are not amenable to your schedule, preparation for and reception of the Sacrament is deferred to a cycle that is.

Preparation

Involvement in Christian Service Activities

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Journey Mapping

• Saturday, February 15, 2025
• Begins at 3 PM & ends at 6 PM Following 5 PM Mass
• Bixman Hall (church building)
• Sponsors Attend with Their Candidate

Gifts & Responsibilities​​

• Saturday, March 15, 2025
• Begins at 3 PM & ends at 6 PM Following 5 PM Mass
• Bixman Hall (church building)
• Sponsors Attend with Their Candidate

Retreat Day

• Saturday, April 5, 2025
• Arrive at the Blessed Solanus Casey Center, Detroit at 9:30 AM
• Your Sponsor should arrive for the session at 3 PM
• ​Mass TBD
• ​Wear your running shoes!

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Practice​​

• Thursday, May 8, 2025
• 6 PM at St. Aidan Catholic Church
• Sponsors Attend with Their Candidate

Celebration

The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated at 11 AM on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Bishop Jeffrey Monforton will be the celebrant.

Your Sponsor

There are two areas that must be considered when choosing a sponsor:

• Responsibility: The sponsor needs to be present during the time of preparation and certainly at the celebration of the sacrament of Confirmation.  The sponsors present the candidates to the bishop for anointing and later help them to fulfill their baptismal promises faithfully under the influence of the Holy Spirit whom they have received (Code of Canon Law, # 892).

 

• Qualifications: To be a sponsor, a person must be chosen by the candidate; be sixteen years of age or older, a confirmed Catholic who has received the Eucharist and lives as a faithful Catholic (Code of Canon Law, #874).  The Church desires that, if possible, one of the baptismal godparents be the sponsor for Confirmation.  This emphasizes the close link between the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation (Code of Canon Law, #893).

Note: You should submit the full name of the sponsor to your catechist or our secretary in the Faith Formation Office as soon as possible, 734-425-5950.  Remember, your sponsor needs to be present during the time of preparation.