Confirmation is a Sacrament of Initiation celebrated, usually, by high school aged students. Preparation for this sacrament requires that the student complete the Trinity Religious Education program. Students in the 9th grade (provided they have completed the Religious Education requirements) will receive an invitation from the parish to become a candidate for Confirmation. Each year, a fall Confirmation track is offered beginning in September, and a winter Confirmation track is offered beginning in January. Please contact the Religious Education Department in the Parish Office if you have questions regarding the Confirmation Program (586-254-4433).

THE CONFIRMATION PROGRAM at St. Therese of Lisieux is titled Diesel.  It consists of a few initial meetings, including the Rite of Election Mass.  This is a special Mass for confirmation candidates that allow candidates to profess to the church community that they are seeking Confirmation.  Then, ten sessions of class time and a confirmation retreat follow.  During the process, Confirmation sponsors and Confirmation names are selected.  Journaling, a Saint report, small and large group discussion sessions, and time with a candidate’s sponsor are all part of the process. 

TO THE CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES:

Whether it was your choice or not, you are in for a wonderful journey!  Diesel: Destination Confirmation is about choices.  Choices in life, in faith, in relationships, and it all begins with your choice of how you will accept this process.  You may not have had the choice to sign up, but you do have a choice on where to go from here – you can open your eyes and jump in, you can hold back and wade in or you can completely check out by not being open to the process  - it is your choice! 

Carpe Diem – Seize the Day!  You will hear this phrase echoed throughout this process.  You’ll have wonderful Facilitators of teens and adults who will encourage you, listen to you, pray with you and enter into your journey as well.  So here is to a wonderful process of coming to know each other, coming to encounter Christ in a new way, and having a blast while doing it.