Get CO Nativity Of Our Lord Confirmation Sponsor Affidavit 2014-2024

A sponsor must have received the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist. A sponsor must be at least 16 years of age and may be male or female regardless of the sex of the candidate.

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.

Candidate Eligibility To be eligible for the Sacrament of Confirmation a Candidate must: Be a baptized Catholic and have made first Holy Communion. Be at least a junior in High School.

A person who is to be baptized or confirmed is to have a sponsor. While it has become a tradition to have two sponsors at Baptism, having only one sponsor is acceptable. No more than two sponsors are permitted, however, and the two sponsors may not be of the same sex.

Once the confirmation happens, it is then celebrated by a party or gift. 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.

Your sponsor must be someone besides your parents. The church prefers that the godparents at baptism serve again as the sponsor at confirmation. You may choose as your sponsor, your brother, sister, godfather, godmother, aunt, uncle, cousin, friend, or neighbor who meets these requirements.

The Code of Canon Law (Church Law) specifies the requirements for serving as a sponsor at Confirmation (Canon 893) are the same as those for godparents at Baptism (Canon 874): You may not be the parent of the person being confirmed; you must be at least 16 years old; you must be fully initiated (Baptism, Confirmation, ...

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. A godparent is a good choice.