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ENROLMENT CEREMONY FOR CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES
SUNDAY 2ND MARCH AT 10.30 AM MASS.


The confirmation candidates are seated with their families at the beginning
of Mass.

 

INTRODUCTORY RITE

Celebrant:
We gather today as a community offaith in the name of the Father and ofthe Son and ofthe Holy Spirit. We welcome especially the young people who are preparing for Confirmation and those members oftheir families who will support them on that journey. As members of this faith community, we too will support and pray for them as they prepare to celebrate this sacrament. We ask God's blessinq on all who are gathered here and pray that our time of preparation for Confirmation may be filled with grace. AMEN.

To make more tangible the connection with Baptism, a Sprinkling Rite might take the place of the Penitential Rite this Sunday. Invite one of the Confirmation Candidates to hold the water vessel.

PENITENTIAL RITE: SPRINKLING RITE

Dear friends, this water will be used to remind us of our Baptism. Let us ask God to bless it and to keep us faithful to the Spirit he has given us.

God our Creator, your gift of water brings life and freshness to the earth; it washes away our sins and brings us eternal life.

We ask you now to bless +this water, and to give us your protection on this day
which you have made your own. Renew the living spring of your life within us and protect us in spirit and body, that we may be free from sin and come into your presence to receive your gift of salvation. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Sprinkling of people

May almighty God cleanse us of our sins, and through the Eucharist
we celebrate make us worthy to sit at his table in his heavenly
kingdom. AMEN.

PROMISES OF CANDIDATES

Celebrant
In Baptism the candidates for Confirmation entered into this Christian community. As a reminder of being called by name into God's family at Baptism, I now invite the leaders to call each ofthe Confirmation Candidates by name.

The two people who are to call the names come forward to stand each side of the sanctuary area. As their names are called the candidates may come forward and form a semi-circle in the sanctuary. If there is no room for this they may stand at their seats.

Adult 1: ____ , I call you by your name.

Adult 2: ____ , I call you by your name.

Celebrant

Loving God, we hear you say, 'I have called you by name! You are mine!' You have called each of these young people by name from this community offaith. As your Spirit continues to call us may we be always open to the presence of God among us.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. AMEN.

ADDRESSING THE CANDIDATES

Celebrant:
As you prepare to be confirmed in your faith at Confirmation, do you promise to take time to get ready to celebrate this important step on your journey of faith?

Candidates:
We do.

Celebrant:
Do you promise to try to spend some time in prayer each day?

Candidates:
We do.

Celebrant:
Do you promise to try and deepen your understanding of what it means to belong to God's family by coming to Mass every weekend?

Candidates:
We do.

Celebrant:
Do you promise to try to be the kind of person that Jesus would want you to be - at home, in school and within the parish community?

Candidates:
We do.

Celebrant
May God continue to bless you and may you know God's love in your
hearts and share it with others.

All: AMEN.

PROMISES OF PARENTS

Commentator:
Now we welcome again your parents and all those who have accompanied you on your journey of faith this far. We ask God's blessing on all of them as they prepare with you to celebrate this sacrament. We invite the parents of all the candidates to stand.

Celebrant:
Do you promise to help, support and encourage your child in their parish programme of preparation for Confirmation?

Parents:
We do.

Celebrant:
Do you promise to try to be the best of teachers in the ways of faith by taking time to talk to them about their Confirmation, praying with them, bringing them to Mass and helping them to understand what being an adult member ofthe Church is all about.

Parents:
We do.

PRESENTATION OF THE CONFIRMATION COMMITMENT CERTIFICATE

Celebrant:

We now give this to each ofthe Candidates for Confirmation. It contains all the promises we have asked them to make in preparation for Confirmation. We ask that they and their parents sign it when they get home. We also ask that you put it somewhere that you can see it every day and be reminded of your promises.

THE PROMISE OF THE COMMUNITY

Introduction to the Renewal of Baptismal Promises:

Commentator:
As we renew our baptismal promises we remember especially our promise to always walk as a child ofthe light.

Celebrant:

We ask everybody to stand and join with the candidates and their parents as together we journey towards Confirmation. As members of the family of God it is our responsibility to support, help and pray for the candidates. They are a reminder to us that through our Baptism we are all children of God.

Celebrant:
Do you believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth?

All: Ido.

Celebrant:

Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand ofthe Father?

All: I do.

Celebrant:
Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection ofthe body, and life everlasting?

All:I do.

Celebrant:
This is our faith. This is the faith ofthe Church. We are proud to profess it, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

All: Amen.

The celebration of the Eucharist continues with the PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL
which might include a prayer for the Confirmation Candidates.