Confirmation is available to our youth, thirteen years of age or older, through the religious education process with activities involving parents and sponsors. Adults are prepared through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

Adults who have not been confirmed should contact their parish priest in order to receive instruction. Confirmation for adults is celebrated annually in the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on the Feast of Pentecost.

Sacrament of Confirmation

In the Archdiocese of Washington, Confirmation is always celebrated within Mass to express more clearly the fundamental connection of this sacrament with the entirety of Christian initiation, which reaches its culmination in the Eucharist. Students are to be confirmed in the 7th or 8th grade. Requires parental and sponsor participation.

First Communion