According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church “It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost. From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace: 

• it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, ‘Abba! Father’;
• it unites us more firmly to Christ;
• it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us;
• it renders our bond with the Church more perfect;
• it gives us special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never be ashamed of the cross. (CCC 1302-1303). 

Our Confirmation program is a two-year program where we equip the parents to be able to fulfill their role as teachers of their children. We know that parents have the biggest impact on the lives of their children, and this duty to raise up their children in the faith is not a duty that can be abrogated or delegated, but rather is the ultimate end of the marriage. As Pope Pius XI wrote in the 13^th paragraph of Casti Connubii “Christian parents must also understand that they are destined not only to propagate and preserve the human race on earth, indeed not only to educate any kind of worshippers of the true God, but children who are to become members of the Church of Christ, to raise up fellow-citizens of the Saints, and members of God’s household, that the worshippers of God and Our Savior may daily increase”. The first command of God in Genesis is to “be fruitful and multiply (Gen 1:28)” not only that the population would increase, but more fundamentally that we would raise more worshippers of the one true God. We want to be able to help parents to live out this mission.