Confirmation
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Adult Confirmation
If you are an adult Catholic who has already been baptized but needs the sacrament of Confirmation, please contact our parish office: Debbie Gallegos, 208-232-1196 or dgallegos@hscc.org. If you are a baptized adult from another religious faith, or an adult who has never been baptized, please click here.
High School Confirmation
All teenagers wishing to be Confirmed this upcoming spring, should sign up for our required Confirmation class. Class dates and times will be announced soon. To sign up, please contact our Youth Minister Jessica Gallegos at 208-232-1196 or jgallegos@hscc.org, or drop by the parish office to fill out a registration form. Feel free to contact Jessica with any questions you may have.
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Who to contact
Confirmation for Adult Catholics:
Debbie Gallegos
208-232-1196 / dgallegos@hscc.org
Confirmation for High School Students:
Jessica Gallegos
208-232-1196 / jgallegos@hscc.org -
Why Confirmation?
Confirmation perfects Baptismal grace; it is the sacrament which gives the Holy Spirit in order to root us more deeply in the divine filiation, incorporate us more firmly into Christ, strengthen our bond with the Church, associate us more closely with her mission, and help us bear witness to the Christian faith in words accompanied by deeds.(CCC 1316)
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Confirmation & The Holy Spirit
In the Sacrament of Confirmation, the baptized person is"sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit" and is strengthened for service to the Body of Christ.
The prophets of the Old Testament foretold that God's Spirit would rest upon the Messiah to sustain his mission. Their prophecy was fulfilled when Jesus the Messiah was conceived by the Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. The Holy Spirit descended on Jesus on the occasion of his baptism by John. Jesus' entire mission occurred in communion with the Spirit. Before he died, Jesus promised that the Spirit would be given to the Apostles and to the entire Church. After his death, he was raised by the Father in the power of the Spirit.
Confirmation deepens our baptismal life that calls us to be missionary witnesses of Jesus Christ in our families, neighborhoods, society, and the world. . . . We receive the message of faith in a deeper and more intensive manner with great emphasis given to the person of Jesus Christ, who asked the Father to give the Holy Spirit to the Church for building up the community in loving service.
-- From the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Website
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