Confirmation Class 2022

FORMS

      Sponsor form  due 03/12/2022
      Patron Saint Report  (due 03/12/2022)
 
 
 
Important Dates:
  • Parents' meeting (mandatory):  02/19/2022
  • Sponsor Form  (due 03/12/2022)
  • Patron Saint Report  (due 03/12/2022)
  • Community Service Hours form (due 04/30/2022)

 

  • Confirmation RETREAT (mandatory):  Sunday 03/13/2022
  • Final Exam, Candidate's Interview with Pastor/Director Priest:  05/07 & 05/14
  • Confession, Rehearsal:  05/21/2022
  • CONFIRMATION MASS celebrated by Bishop Broglio - Saturday 05/28/2022 at 2:00PM

 

 
READING RESOURCES:
      Book - Called to Celebrate: Confirmation, by Our Sunday Visitor
      Book - Catechism of the Catholic Church
 
Extra Resources:
  CCC Glossary (online version) (PDF) 
  Baltimore Catechism Questions 1-100 (online version) (PDF) 
  Compendium of Catechism (PDF)
  Book - Why We're Catholic, by Trent Horn
 
 
 
 

OVERVIEW

Semester I:   Called to Celebrate: Confirmation
                       Chapters 1-8
                  Discern for a Confirmation Saint
                  Discern for a Confirmation Sponsor
 
Semester II:   Catechesis for Confirmation Candidates
           C1 - Catechism, Creed
           C2 - Liturgy & Sacraments
           C3 - Virtues
           C4 - Mary, Gifts & Fruits of the Holy Spirit
           C5 - Morality 
 
 
 
Students should be able to recite (in either Vietnamese or English): 

Our Father                 Glory Be                                           Act of Contrition

Hail Mary                   Apostles’ Creed or Nicene Creed      

              

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Students should be able to thoroughly define: 

Holy Trinity                          

Sacrament 

Grace         

Transubstantiation

 

 

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Students should be able to list the following:

Ten Commandments

Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Seven Sacraments 

Five Precepts of the Church

Corporal Works of Mercy 

Spiritual Works of Mercy

Three Theological Virtues 

Four Major Parts of the Mass

Four Cardinal Virtues 

Mysteries of the Rosary

Basic Outline of the Bible 

The Four Gospels

The Beatitudes 

Four Marks of the Church

 

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Students should know and understand the following terms/phrases:

God

Revelation 

Faith, Hope, Charity

Old Testament

New Testament 

Body & Soul

Adam & Eve 

Original Sin 

Concupiscence

Jesus

Incarnation 

Immaculate Conception

Assumption 

Mother of God 

St. Joseph

Holy Thursday 

Good Friday 

"Created in His Image"

Crucifixion 

Salvation 

Redemption

Easter 

Catholic Church 

Pentecost

St. Peter 

Apostolic Succession 

Magisterium

Infallibility

St. Paul

Communion of Saints

Heaven & Beatific Vision

Hell

Purgatory

Resurrection of the Body 

Angel 

Canonization

Martyr 

Mortal Sin 

Venial Sin

Baptism by Desire & Blood

Chrism 

Charism

Bishop & Diocese 

Priest & Parish

Pastor & Parochial Vicar

Mass as Sacrifice 

Mass as Meal

Real Presence

Tabernacle

Last Supper

Words of Consecration 

- "Love" as defined by St. Thomas Aquinas (CCC 1766)

- "Ordered toward" natural law (CCC 1956-1960)

-  Well-formed Conscience (CCC 1783)