Get Form For The Confirmation Sponsor

What are the requirements to become a Confirmation sponsor? You are registered and active member of a Catholic parish, for at least three (3) months. You are actively attending Mass and receiving Communion each week. You received all Sacraments in the Catholic Church. ... You must be at least sixteen (16) years of age.

What is a Sponsor? A sponsor is a person who encourages and assists a candidate to embrace and actively practice the Catholic faith both before and after Confirmation. The sponsor also presents the candidate to the Bishop (or his delegate) at the celebration of Confirmation.

In order to be a sponsor at this time, the following requirements must be met: A Sponsor must have received all the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, First Communion and Confirmation). If married, a sponsor must be married in the Catholic Church. He or she may not be the candidate's mother or father.

The confirmation sponsor represents a point of reference, a role model in life, a safe harbour you can always turn to for help. This is why it's tradition for the confirmand to thank their sponsor with a special gift on the day of the ceremony.

Tell them how much you care for them and how grateful you are to be their sponsor. you; tell a story of how God touched your life, or what it means for you to be Catholic/ Christian. and live a moral, responsible life as a fully initiated Catholic.

To be considered a candidate for Confirmation, the youth must have been baptized, and also should have participated in at least two years of catechetical preparation prior to beginning immediate preparation for the sacrament. A special catechetical approach for preparing older teens may need to be provided.

The best confirmation gifts, whether given by sponsors, parents, or grandparents, are spiritual in nature, like jewelry with a cross or a keepsake box with a Bible passage.