Youth prepare for Confirmation during 8th Grade religion classes at Holy Cross School or during 8th Grade CCD classes on Weds. nights.  Youth receive Confirmation during the fall semester of their Freshmen Year of high school.

Adults prepare for Confirmation in RCIA classes held on Sunday mornings.  Adults receive Confirmation at the Easter Vigil (Saturday night) Mass.

Contact Brian Corrigan, Director of Religious Education, at (815) 538 - 6151 for more information.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”   + Acts 1:8

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.  Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.  + Acts 8:14-17

Laying on of Hands, Oil

• Increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us.

• Strengthens our bond with the Catholic Church.

• Gives us special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the Catholic Faith.

• Makes us soldiers for Jesus Christ.

1. Wisdom

2. Understanding

3. Counsel

4. Fortitude

5. Knowledge

6. Piety

7. Fear of the Lord