10700 Aboite Center Road, Fort Wayne, IN
260-432-0268
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Information For our Confirmation Students and their Sponsors
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Important DatesStudent/Sponsor Meeting #1
- November 15 at 12:45 pm or 4:00 pm
- November 16 at 6:00 pm
- November 21 & 22 at all of the Masses
- Early February
- March 21 at 1:30 pm (YF/RE students have class that day)
CONFIRMATION- May 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm (plan to arrive in the gym by 5:30 pm)
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Service Hours
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All Confirmation students are required to turn in service hours. Confirmation calls each person to serve inside and outside the Church to further God's Kingdom.
Click on the image to find specifics about the requirement for Service hours
NOTE: FOR THE 2020-21 YEAR THE REQUIREMENT OF SERVICE HOURS HAS BEEN WAIVED FOR ALL GRADES DUE TO THE PANDEMIC -
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Confirmation Details
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Confirmation Dress CodeGirls: Dress or skirt outfit of modest length or dress pants
No spaghetti straps, strapless dresses or halter tops
No plunging necklines, open back dresses or bare midriffs
No long formal dresses
No flip flops or athletic shoes
NO MAKEUP on your forehead
Boys: Dress pants and dress shirt
Dress shoes
Tie (optional)
Jacket (optional – about 80% wear jackets)
NO athletic shoes
INTERVIEWS: YOUTH FORMATION/RE STUDENTS
Mid-February: link to sign up will be posted at a later date
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Important Times:Times
- Students should arrive in the Parish Activity Center BY 5:30 pm .
- Sponsors should be seated in the Church by .
- A Professional Photographer will be available to take individual portraits from . A copy of the order form for individual pictures and/or group pictures can be printed here.
Photography:- Pictures may be taken as the candidates are filing in, during the processional at the beginning of Mass and recessional at the end of Mass. You may take pictures during Confirmation but please do not leave your seat and/or use flash.
- There will be someone taking pictures of the individual candidates while they are being Confirmed. Those pictures will be made available online afterwards.
- After Confirmation, Bishop will be available in the Mother Seton room for individual pictures with your own camera. Please line up outside the Mother Seton room in the hallway by the nursery.
Servers and Eucharistic Ministers are needed.
If a sibling is interested in serving at Mass or if a parent/sponsor/friend is interested in being a Eucharistic Minister of Holy Communion (preferably St. Elizabeth trained) please click here and email Kim Conte.
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Confirmation Retreat
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All confirmation Students are required to attend a Confirmation Retreat.
Students have a choice of two dates:
January 23, 2021 OR February 6, 2021
The retreat begins at 8:30am and ends after the 5:30 pm Mass
There is a $25 fee for the retreat to cover the cost of the t-shirt, food, etc.
Click on the image to the left to register online and pay by credit card or click here for a downloadable/printable form (Coming soon!)
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Confirmation Sponsors
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Confirmation Students select their Confirmation Sponsor at the end of 7th grade. Sponsors should be someone that the student feels close enough to to talk about faith matters and is an example of living the Catholic Faith.
Click the image to find out more about who can be a sponsor, the responsibilities of being a sponsor and submit your sponsor's name
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Confirmation Journals
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Grades 7 and 8 complete Confirmation Journals. The focus of the journals are on prayer, faith and the Saints. Journals are done independently and are considered a form of prayer and should not be done in one sitting. Students are encouraged to small parts each time they have prayer time.
The journals will be collected in December with aproximately half of the questions done and at the end of the year (remaining pages). Grade 8 journals will be collected in February during Confirmation interviews.
Click on the image to review copies of the journals and their due dates.
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