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Confirmation Curriculum and Resources
Here you can find recommended curriculum, videos to use in class, and some contemporary saint documentaries.
Curriculum
Ascension Press
Designed for Grades 6-12
This curriculum has online access and both DVD and/or digital streaming option of the episodes available. It has Spanish subtitles and handouts for both high school and middle school grade levels. There are guides for parent and Confirmation sponsor sessions, small group activities, and a leader's guide to help facilitate and teach the lessons. The online leader access is $35.
Sophia Institute for Teachers
Designed for Grades 5-8The seven lessons included in this teacher’s guide for upper elementary and middle school provide you with dozens of activities that will prepare your students to receive an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation.Each lesson includes full-color sacred art, background readings, games, role-plays, and assessment tools that will empower young people — like the Apostles — to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and make disciples of all nations. All activities, reproducible student handouts, readings, and a complete answer key are included in the book.
YDisciple Never Alone: Life with the Holy Spirit &
YDisciple Never Alone: Life with the Holy Spirit is available on formed.org
YDisciple Bible Study: Never Alone- These episodes in particular are most related to Confirmation:
- Belonging: The Holy Spirit and the Trinity
- Guided: Prayer, Discernment, and Fruits of the Holy Spirit
- Empowered: Witness, Pentecost, and the effect of the Holy Spirit
- Alive: Overcoming Sin, Grace, and Role of the Holy Spirit
- Bible Study Lessons:
- The Basics: the basic elements of Confirmation in the Bible, and the Sacramental theology
- The Gifts - the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Scripture and how they apply to our lives
- The Proof - the fruit of the Holy Spirit effects of confirmation as laid out in the Catechism
- The Mission - the need and connection of Confirmation to a life of mission
Combining personal testimony with catechesis, this series was created to bring about this sort of fruitful discussion with students who are preparing to be confirmed as well as those whose confirmation day has already come and gone. As with all YDisciple series, it is designed specifically with small groups in mind. Each session comes with a Leader Guide for middle school and high school, Participant Guide, and Parent Sheet (English & Spanish)The Bible study includes 4 non-video sessions to help adults facilitate dialogue with teens about Confirmation by digging into sacred scripture. Purchasers have permission to copy guides for distribution within the purchasing entity (parish, school, group, etc.) at no additional charge.These are available either as a single study purchase or through Subscriptions to YDisciple.com or Formed.org.
LifeTeen
Designed for Grades 7-12
The Purpose curriculum is 24 sessions and focuses on three big questions - "Why believe in God?" "Why trust Jesus?" and "Why belong to the Church?" This curriculum is designed to be kerygmatic with an emphasis on walking a teenager from an unfounded belief (or disbelief) in God toward a commitment to Jesus lived out through the Catholic Church. Each session is supplemented with video that engages the hearts, mind, and humor of teenagers. This curriculum is available in a high school large group, high school small group, 7th-8th grade, and Spanish format. All four curriculum types are provided with one subscription purchase. Additionally, there is a lectionary-based discipleship bible study option for every session called "Summit." These small group sessions are 20 minutes long and a unique outline is provided for every Sunday of the liturgical year. All Summit sessions can be accessed from within the app platform.
This program includes training and tutorials for leaders, lessons, and videos in English and Spanish, icebreakers, an app, and retreat guides. It is updated digitally with new lessons, retreats, and other resources.
Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, Office of Religious Education.
Designed for Grades 5-7
This Confirmation curriculum, Confirmed for Mission: An Evangelical catechesis on Confirmation was developed by the Office of Religious Education in dialogue and collaboration with numerous Confirmation teachers and school administrator in the Diocese of Lincoln. As the introduction above indicates the thrust of its content is evangelical, that is, to aid Confirmation students to prepare for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Confirmation and to guide them in evangelizing others in the power of the same Spirit. This curriculum and its related materials and resources includes the necessary content for a candidate in 5th to 7th grade to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation fruitfully. Everything is available digitally online.________________________________________________
Supplemental Catechetical Videos
The Ministry of the Wild Goose
The Wild Goose series is truly a work of the Holy Spirit. “Wild Goose” was a term that the ancient Celts had for the Holy Spirit. It is a 14 part series featuring Fr. Dave Pivonka and various interviews. Shot in various locations from Niagara Falls to the California desert, The Wild Goose invites viewers to an encounter, or a renewed encounter, with the Holy Spirit. The entire series is available for free on WILDGOOSE.TV or if you prefer you can purchase the DVD set as well for $75.
Credible Catholic
Free teaching resources, presentations, and powerpoint modules put together by Fr. Robert Spitzer. These videos and modules combine science, media, and Catholic Church teaching to share the faith. "We have more evidence for God from science than ever before," Fr. Robert Spitzer. There are modules on clinical near death experience proof of the soul and on the Eucharistic miracles.
Ascension Presents Videos
Almost every topic imaginable with leading Catholic speakers, theologians, and evangelists. Fr. Mike Schmitz' videos can be found here.
Catholic Central Videos
Each of these short videos are entertaining and approximately 4-7 minutes long. They would serve as a good introductory video to the Confirmation evening. There are videos on sin, Sacraments, Confirmation, saints, and prayer. They are available on YouTube.
Sofia Sketchpad Videos
Sofia Press puts out these animated "sketchpad" catechetical videos. There are five videos on the Sacraments, including Confirmation.
Saint/Inspirational Catholic Videos
All or Nothing: Sr. Clare Crockett (Full Movie) (1hr, 24 min)The young Clare Crockett, who aspired to nothing less than walking down the red carpet in Hollywood, left all of her dreams aside on one Good Friday after an encounter with Christ Crucified. When she was seventeen years old, the Lord transformed her soul and she no longer desired to have anything other than the Love of Christ. The desire of her soul to belong to Christ alone –to live alone with Christ Alone– led her to consecrate her life in the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother and to give of herself with complete generosity.
Blessed Chiara Luce Badano, A Beautiful Plan (42 min)
Chiara Badano, called Chiara "Luce" (which means "Light"), (Sassello, October 29, 1971 - Sassello, October 7, 1990) was an Italian teenager who has been declared "Blessed" within the Catholic Church. She belonged to the Focolare Movement and died prematurely at eighteen after succumbing to osteosarcoma, an aggressive and painful form of bone cancer. She was beatified on September 25, 2010 in the Sanctuary of "Our Lady of Divine Love" in Rome.
Blessed Carlo Acutis, The Tech Teen who found Jesus (25min)
Learn how the first millennial "blessed," Carlo Acutis, is inspiring young people worldwide and see how Assisi is preparing for his beatification. Carlos' Eucharistic Miracles website can be found here.
Blessed Frassati (Original version with subtitles) (27min)
Born into an upper class Italian family, son of the editor of leading newspaper La Stampa, Pier Giorgio spent his time rescuing those in need in the poor neighborhoods of Turin. In a period marked by the rise of fascism in Italy, he was also involved in politics and was committed to working for social justice. The energy for these commitments came from his relationship with Christ and his intense prayer life. He was surrounded by close friends with whom he shared his faith and his passions. With a love of sports and mountains, he enjoyed taking his friends ‘up to the summits'. Pier Giorgio Frassati died aged 24, following a fatal disease contracted whilst working with a poor family. On 20th May 1990 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II who called him the 'Man of the 8 Beatitudes'
- These episodes in particular are most related to Confirmation: