The Confirmation Sacramental Preparation Formation is for two years beginning with youth 13 years old (up to 17 years old) or in 7th grade or higher. We are engaged in the Sacramental Formation process through Chosen from Ascension Press. Curriculum requirements can be found in the website of the San Francisco Archdiocesan Office of Faith Formation (http://www.sfarch.org/ooff). Religious Education and Family Faith Formation begins each September. (Please see Guidelines & Requirements for details of our Family Catechesis.)
Requirements for entering the Confirmation Preparation Formation:
Calender of Classes and Catechists:
Mondays from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. with catechists Ando Perlas, Carmen Perlas, and Patricia Sanchez
Wednesdays from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. with catechists Maggie Alvarenga, Dora Cruz, and Laura Gonzalez
Saturday’s Special Education with catechists Valeria Monroy.
Please note all Catechists complete Protecting God’s Children training through the National Catholic Risk Retention Group, Inc. VIRTUS Online and are Live scanned for fingerprinting. For more information, please call the San Francisco Archdiocesan Office of Child and Youth Protection (415) 614-5504.
Confirmation perfects Baptismal grace; it is the sacrament which gives the Holy Spirit in order to root us more deeply in the divine filiation, incorporate us more firmly into Christ, strengthen our bond with the Church, associate us more closely with her mission, and help us bear witness to the Christian faith in words accompanied by deeds. (CCC 1316)
Through the Sacrament of Confirmation we renew our baptismal promises and commit to living a life of maturity in the Christian faith. As we read in the Lumen Gentium (the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church) from the Second Vatican Council:
Bound more intimately to the Church by the sacrament of confirmation, [the baptized] are endowed by the Holy Spirit with special strength; hence they are more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith both by word and by deed as true witnesses of Christ. (no. 11)
In the Acts of the Apostles we read of the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. While baptism is the sacrament of new life, confirmation gives birth to that life. Baptism initiates us into the Church and names us as children of God, whereas confirmation calls us forth as God’s children and unites us more fully to the active messianic mission of Christ in the world.
After receiving the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the Apostles went out and confirmed others, showing confirmation to be an individual and separate sacrament: Peter and John at Samaria (Acts 8:5-6, 14-17) and Paul at Ephesus (Acts 19:5-6). Also the Holy Spirit came down on Jews and Gentiles alike in Caesarea, prior to their baptisms. Recognizing this as a confirmation by the Holy Spirit, Peter commanded that they be baptized (cf. Acts 10:47).
5:15 PM KA - † Pierina and Cesare Mezzetta
6:30 PM MM - † Reyna Villafuerte Chávez; Leticia, Horacio y Reyna Salazar
7:30 am MM - Intentions for Parishioners
9:00 am JB -
10:30 am KA -
12 noon JB - *Juan Pedro Gómez: Cumpleaños
*Acción de Gracias
† Pedro y María de Jesús Urista Pinzón
† Ernesto López: Aniversario #1 Difunto
† Luis Antonio Vides
5:15 pm MM -
8:00 am JB - † Irene Arellano
6:00 pm MM - *Jose Luis Gonzalez Hernandez Bday
8:00 am JB - *Joaquin Berdugo: Birthday
6:00 pm - † Maria Natividad & Mariano Cano Sr.
8:00 am KA - † Anthony Pardi; Francisco Ng & Pilar Felix
6:00 pm MM -
8:00 am JB - † Pedro Aguilar
6:00 pm KA -
8:00 am KA - † Lando & Giuseppina Baldocchi
6:00 pm KA -
5:15 pm JB - † Gloria Galeotti
6:30 pm KA - *Sara Navarro; Adrián Gómez y Familia
7:30 am JB - Intentions for Parishioners
9:00 am KA - † José Lomelí y Marcelino Hernández
10:30 am MM - *April Bday Celebrants: Cardenas Fam
12:00 pm KA - *Jesús Cruz: Cumpleaños #80
† Christian Alvarado Cruz: Aniversario
de Difunto
† Rosalinda Gil
† María de la Luz Rocha: Aniversario #8 de Difunta
† Arturo y Luisa Jauregui
5:15 pm JB - † All the Serbian Souls
Adventures in Marriage Workshop
A SHORT COURSE FOR YOUR MARRIAGE THAT’S . . .
Faith! - Fun! - Forever!
Invest in your marriage today!
you’ll discover ways to:
communicate more clearly!
improve understanding!
make marriage a priority!
learn to love like Jesus!
This skills for marriage building day combines catholic teaching with the latest relationship research to let couples experience practical, attainable skills for a more successful marriage.
Create the marriage you want with the spouse you have!
$50/couple - includes lunch, workbooks, childcare
Link to more info:
https://sfarchdiocese.org/event/skills-for-sacramental-marriage-building/
Life-Giving Wounds Retreat
May 30 - June 1
A Retreat For Adult Children of Divorced/Separated Parents
Dealing with our parents' divorce is not easy but confronting this wound with faith can allow us to find great healing. We hope that you will become part of our supportive community and receive the many graces available through this ministry.
Healing Retreat
Attending the three-day retreat is a great way to start this journey of healing. The retreat focuses on discovering our identity as children of God, although it also focuses on overcoming the effects of parental divorce, forgiving our parents, and connecting with others from this background.
This retreat has something for any adult child of divorce or separation, no matter how much healing you have received or need.
The weekend includes presentations, small group sharing, adoration, spiritual direction, and Mass. This three-day retreat is the centerpiece of this ministry.
Themes covered on the weekend include:
• Finding Our Deepest Identity
• Faith and Our Relationship with God
• Love, Dating, and the Sacrament of Marriage
• Loneliness
• Anger and Anxiety
• False Guilt and Shame
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• Family Boundaries
• The Christian Meaning of Suffering
• Healing and the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist
Link to more info:
https://sfarchdiocese.org/event/life-giving-wounds-healing-retreat/
And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."
Matthew 28: 18-20 (RSV-CE)