Adults seeking Confirmation should contact their parish for the dates and times of their adult Confirmation program. Adults can receive the Sacrament of Confirmation at their parish celebration of the sacrament or at one of the diocesan adult Confirmation celebrations.
At Confirmation, we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
In the Gospels, the same Spirit that descended on Jesus during Baptism descends on the Apostles at Pentecost (CCC, nos. 1285-1287). The readings and homily we hear at Confirmation remind us that this same Spirit is present to us today. At Confirmation, we receive diverse spiritual gifts that work together for the “common good” and “the building up of the Church, to the well-being of humanity and to the needs of the world” (Pope John Paul II, Christifideles Laici [The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World], no. 24). At Confirmation, we pray for an increase of the gifts of the Spirit in our own lives in order to serve the cause of justice and peace in Church and world.