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Confirmation: Parent Information
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The Role of Parents in the Sacrament of Confirmation
This is an exciting time for not only the student, but for the family to experience and walk in faith together as your child intentionally chooses what was chosen for them in baptism.
Through the completion of your own Sacraments of initiation, you embraced the promises made to the Catholic Church by bringing your own children to the Church for baptism.
“In asking to have your child Baptized, you are undertaking the responsibility of raising him/her in the faith, so that, keeping God’s commandments, they may love the Lord and their neighbor as Christ has taught us. Do you understand this responsibility? ... For your part, you must strive to bring her/him up in the faith, so that this divine life may be preserved from the contagion (stain) of sin (separation from God), and may grow in him/her day by day. If your faith makes you ready to accept this responsibility then, mindful of your own Baptism, renounce sin and profess faith in Christ Jesus, the faith of the Church, in which children are baptized.” (Order of Baptism of Children)
On that day of your child’s baptism, you publically professed your faith and the community welcomed your child into the Catholic Church.
In continuing with the promises you made at your child’s baptism you commit to:-
Raising your youth in the Christian faith as confessed by the Catholic Church
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Recognize that the grace within your child is part of God’s own divine life
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You would help keep them from the “stain of sin” (becoming separated from God)
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That your child would grow in grace and love of God each day through practice within the family.
As parents, you are the first and primary teachers and models of faith for your children. We encourage parents to be active with your child, living out and participating not only in Confirmation expectations but in living out the call to be Catholic. Pray together as a family, take your child to Mass regularly, live and share the faith, act with mercy and love, teach your child to live in accordance to God’s will and desire for them, pray for yourself to grow in greater communion with God so you may be an excellent example of Catholic faith in action.
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