Confirmation for high school students is celebrated once a year at St. Catherine of Siena by a visiting Bishop. Teens who are in their junior or senior year in high school are eligible to prepare for this Sacrament. Registration begins in April and is due before the first Confirmation class in the Fall. If you are interested in joining our High School Confirmation program, please contact Joseph Crapanzano, Director of Confirmation, at the parish office at 504-835-9343 or at [email protected].
Preparation is handled in the church parish, not by the Catholic School.
Please note that all children in 1st through 11th grade should attend Religious Education classes either in the church parish or in a Catholic school. The Archdiocese recognizes no other programs or schools for preparing your child's Religious Faith formation.
Registration for Confirmation 2024-2025 is now open!
Confirmation Mass Date: January 30, 2025 at 6:30pm
Please have a copy (scanned copy or clear photo) of your baptismal certificate ready to upload during this registration.
If you are not a parishioner at St. Catherine of Siena, your pastor must give you permission to be confirmed at SCS. Please have a copy of your parish letter of permission ready to upload during this registration.
Our preparations happen on Monday evenings from 6:45-8:15pm during the Fall semester of 2023 and also include an all-day retreat at SCS on September 10, 2023.
Attendance: Please check all dates below and mark your calendars so there are no conflicts. If a meeting is missed due to illness or family emergency, student will be required to make up the class. If a candidate misses more than two sessions, they will not be confirmed.
Adult Confirmation preparation takes place in the spring. Adults who are beyond high school age, and have received the sacraments of Baptism, Reconciliation and Eucharist, but need Confirmation, may take part in a 4-week evening preparation series that begins in April. These adults will be confirmed at the Cathedral on Pentecost Sunday by the Archbishop. If you are interested in joining our Adult Confirmation program, please contact Joni Maurer, Director of Evangelization at 504-835-9343 or joni @ scschurch.com.
“Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the Sacraments of Initiation, whose unity must be safeguarded…The Sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace. For 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.” (CCC 1285)