Confirmation

For on him the Father, God, has set his seal. (John 6:27)

At confirmation we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and confirm our baptismal promises. Greater awareness of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conferred through the anointing of chrism oil and the laying on of hands by the Bishop.

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)

Through the Sacrament of Confirmation we renew our baptismal promises and commit to living a life of maturity in the Christian faith. As we read in the Lumen Gentium (the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church) from the Second Vatican Council:

Bound more intimately to the Church by the sacrament of confirmation, [the baptized] are endowed by the Holy Spirit with special strength; hence they are more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith both by word and by deed as true witnesses of Christ. (no. 11)

MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL Confirmation

Our Confirmation program is now administered to teens as a parish family: the parishes of Mary, Queen of Peace, Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Joseph.


Confirmation Preparation is open to youth in 7th-12th grade. Participating youth should be baptized and have received their First Holy Communion in the Catholic Church.


Registration for 2026-27 will open on June 1, 2026. The last day to register is August 31, 2026.


  • Regular session begin Sunday, September 13th and are held at Mary, Queen of Peace in the San Pedro Room on the lower level of the church.


  • Middle School (grades 7-8) meets on Sundays from12:30p-2p
  • High School (grades 9-12) meets on Sundays from 3p-4:30p


ABOUT CONFIRMATION PREPARATION

Confirmation Preparation is a 16-week commitment from September 13-January 24th. We observe both the Issaquah School District and St. Joseph School break schedules and will not hold sessions on the days that fall on a school holiday or during calendar holiday breaks. FULL SCHEDULE 


Registration

To register for the program, please click on the follow link:  YOUTH CONFIRMATION 

For more information visit the St. Joseph's website Sacrament.  Confirmation — St. Joseph Catholic Church | Issaquah . 

 For more questions, please contact Maureen Fellez at mfellez@sjcissaquah.org.