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These are going to be large group events held at the Parish.  The confirmation candidate and their parents will attend these sessions together. The Sponsor may also come and any other family or adult support the Confirmation Candidate has. I know that Mom and Dad are not always the main drivers of Confirmation. If that is the case then whoever that person is can take the place of the parents as needed. We will always have times of prayer with both the candidate and their parent/sponsor/support person. It is important not to leave the teen without an adult to pray with. Every student needs to have at least one adult with them at these sessions.*

The aim of the Soul Impact sessions are to learn as a family about the various elements of the Catholic Faith that are most important for receiving the sacrament of Confirmation. This will be done using a variety of formats including large group discussion, games, prayer, etc...

*We want to strongly encourage Mom and Dad to be present if at all possible. Even if Mom and Dad are not Catholic, do not attend Church regularly, or are not religious, they are still very welcome to come with their teen.

Family Impact will have two parts. The first and possibly the most impactful piece of the whole program is family prayer. You will develop a system and try to form a habit of praying together as a family. We will discuss ways to do this during the parent info night and our first Soul Impact Session.

The second part will be watching and discussing some of the videos on YDisciple.com and Formed.org. As a family or with the Candidate and at least one parent/sponsor/support person sit down together to watch and discuss the assigned video. Try not to have the candidate watch the video alone. We want parents to learn too. You may join with another family or two and do these video discussions together but parents, please take responsibility for this. You may also use Mary's house. Arrange it with Sam Geringer and he will set up a discussion room with a TV and laptop to watch the videos.

World impact will be the service component of our Confirmation program. There are 2 basic requirements, Church and world.

Church: Candidates and parents should each spend five hours volunteering at the Church. There are a lot of different ways to do this and it should be relatively easy.

World: Do some type of family service. It does not matter what it is as long as it is something good and something you can do together.

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