How to Prepare Your Child for Confirmation
Step 1: Have your child study the faith regularly: Attend Mass weekly and on Holy Days of Obligation; read the Holy Bible and learn about the lives of the saints; pray together as a family at home; be sure your child meets all requirements of the program. These things will help enhance and support what they are learning in their religious education classes.
Step 2: Help them become aware that Confirmation is not the end of their religious experience, but the beginning of their lifetime commitment to God and the church.
Step 3: Teach children that to love God fully they must know about Him through continuing in prayer, Bible study and in service to others.
Step 4: Prepare them further by teaching them about the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. These are the gifts that the Holy Spirit brings at the time of Confirmation. Each one gives the believer a different attribute that will help them along in their spiritual journey.
Step 5: Talk with your children about their Confirmation interviews and assesments. Help prepare them for the questions that may be asked. The confirmation interview is a time for the Priest or Faith Formation Team to question the one being confirmed about their faith.
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