
Confirmation Parent’s Promise
Congratulations! Your child has elected to be a part of the journey to the sacrament of Confirmation. As a family, you have been on this journey of life and faith with your son/daughter for quite some time. This point is an important part of the road you have been traveling together. It is an opportunity to stop and assess, where you have been, where you are and where you are headed, both in your life of faith and the life of faith of your child. Perhaps this Confirmation preparation period is the perfect time for you, the parent, to identify how what you do as a parent, influences, or helps to build your child into a healthy adult. Your child’s development of life skills is a process of achieving wholeness and “holiness”. As important as faith may be, it is not a normal topic of dinner conversation in most families. Most often young people need guidance and structure to place faith at the forefront of family discussions. Creating an atmosphere for the nurturing of faith opens wonderful possibilities for your child to be a healthy, whole, and holy human being. Simply taking an opportunity to reflect, share and pray together helps young people and parents express that faith is important to them and how they can find God in ordinary experiences of everyday life. Remember the home if where the faith is developed and lived out.
I promise I will open my own mind and heart to the Holy Spirit and ask God to deepen my own faith and love for Him and His Church.