Registration for Confirmation Classes open in fall.

Who can be Confirmed?
​Any baptized person who has not yet received the Sacrament of Confirmation, and has reached "the age of discretion" (12 and older)
In order to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, one must be in a state of grace.
(Cleansed from sin) One should receive the sacrament of Penance prior to Confirmation.
You can book a personal confession with Father or attend open confessions Saturdays from 4-5pm.

​Contact the Sacraments Director for the registration form. 
email=sacraments@stmarthasparish.ca

Required Documents

• A copy of confirmation students baptismal certificate, if the parish does not already have a copy. If the baptism was celebrated outside of the country, please provide the address of the Parish where it occurred. 
• A Parents baptism certificate.
• The Sponsors confirmation certificate. (Sponsors cannot be younger than 12, or their parent)

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​Covid-19 Confirmation Restrictions 2020-2021

Registrations

Confirmation needs registration forms from the parish to be filled out, as well as online through the diocese. 
Once the registration is turned in the Sacraments director will contact you and send you links and information to start the program. 

Fees

No fees are being asked by the parish as the program through Ascension press provides all materials, the fee from Ascension press comes to $24 Canadian.

CHOSEN program

Throughout the Diocese we are using a program called Chosen, on Ascension press. This program has had raving reviews from both parents and youth. The Chosen program uses videos, online questionnaires, and a digital work book available to be printed to bring the sacrament and teachings alive. Parents will work with your child through the program, with help from the sacraments director throughout the months, and by your parish priest if needed. 
The program allows you to work through at your own pace stretching from February-April.

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What is Confirmation? and why should I be Confirmed?

​"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)

Confirmation seals our Baptismal grace and stirs in us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit engages the gifts we received at Baptism and helps our faith to grow, mature and shift as we do. Confirmation is our embrace of the Catholic Church, its taking ownership of our faith and making the public declarations that our parents made at our Baptisms.
Confirmation, like Baptism, imprints a spiritual mark or indelible character on the Christian’s soul; for this reason one can receive this sacrament only once in one’s life. The sacrament of Confirmation concludes the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded.
The reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace.
-Within the Church only Confirmed Catholics can be Godparents, and sponsors.