Confirmation 2024: Pentecost Sunday 19 May 2024 at 3pm (CCD starts 17 September 2023- (Registrations are closed)
– Confirmation Retreat Saturday end January 2024 in St Augustin Church (75008) includes Enrolment Mass at 2.00pm joined by parents.
– March 2024: Letters to the Bishop : Monseigneur TBA. “each candidate gives a presentation of him/herself & officially asks to be confirmed”
– Saturday in Spring 2024 TBA: 2nd Confirmation Retreat at 10am at St Joseph’s includes meeting with our Bishop to discuss about letters.
Confirmation is the strengthening of the new life of Baptism. As such it brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace. St Ambrose, speaking to the newly confirmed explains: “Recall then that you have received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of right judgment and courage, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear in God’s presence. Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your hearts” (St. Ambrose, De myst. 7, 42: PL 16, 402-403).