Mandatory Retreat 🕊️
Grade 10: date still TBD (Fall 2026)
Grade 9: date TBD (Spring 2027)
Grade 8: date TBD (Fall 2027; students will be in Grade 9)
The retreat will be on a Sunday afternoon before confirmation.
Confirmation 🔥
Grade 10: date TBD (Fall 2026)
Grade 9: date TBD (Spring 2027)
Grade 8: date TBD (Fall 2027; students will be in Grade 9)
Confirmation will be celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford.
Students entering Grade 10:
Finish reading Why We’re Catholic over the summer, and submit your project:
For each chapter, complete one of the following tasks to prove you read it:
- take notes while reading the chapter
- choose an important vocab word from the chapter
- create a drawing related to the chapter
- choose a quote from the chapter
- write a question you have about the chapter
- take a picture of something related to the chapter
- take a selfie of you holding up the first page of the chapter
You can do something different for each chapter.
This can be in whatever format works best for you: a Word doc, a slideshow, a handwritten paper, etc.
Email your project by September 30.
Grade 10: Requirements are due September 30
What needs to be done before Confirmation:
1. Choose a Confirmation Saint
2. Complete 10 Volunteer Hours
3. Choose a Sponsor
All candidates for Confirmation must select a sponsor.
Requirements to be a sponsor:
- at least sixteen years old
- baptized Catholic, who has been Confirmed and has already received the Blessed Eucharist, and meets the three sub-requirements:
- sincerely believes and strives to put into practice the Word of God as taught by the Catholic Church,
- regularly takes part in the Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation,
- and if married, was married in accordance with the requirements of the Catholic Church.
- neither the father or the mother of the candidate for Confirmation
The sponsor must complete the Sponsor Form below.
“It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness.
St. John Paul II
He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you.
He is the beauty to which you are so attracted.
It is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise.
It is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life.
It is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives.”