Sacraments

Baptisms are only for registered members of our parish. Parents of an infant/child to be baptized MUST attend our Baptism class. Please contact Deacon Tim O’Callaghan to schedule a Baptism preparation class. After completion of this class Deacon Tim can also help you schedule the Baptism of your child.

Confirmation & 1st Communion

The celebration of Confirmation follows the “Restored Order of Initiation of Sacraments”: Baptism, followed by Confirmation and then First Eucharist. As a prerequisite for the reception of the sacraments of Confirmation & 1st Communion, children are required to be baptized and attend Religious Education classes for two-years consecutive.
See “Restored Order of Initiation Sacraments” for further program requirements.

The Marriage Preparation Program takes a minimum of six to eight months to complete; therefore, we strongly recommend you begin the program a year before your proposed wedding date.  Preparation for the Sacrament includes areas that will assist in forming a
life-long relationship.

In asking to be married in this community, you are stating that you want the members of your Christian community to witness and support you in prayer and thought.  For this reason, at least one of the members of the couple or their family must have been worshiping at St. Andrew for at least one year.

The sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is available to those who are seriously ill, experiencing chronic illness, or the difficulties associated with advance age, or in preparation for passing over to eternal life. Contact the parish office to request personal visits and the sacraments for yourself or a loved one.

The celebration of the Anointing of the Sick consists essentially in the anointing of the forehead and hands of the sick person with oil; the anointing being accompanied by the liturgical prayer of the priest asking for the special grace of this sacrament.

Personal visits and sacraments upon request. Contact the parish office.

The Catholic Funeral rites are: (1) Vigil or Wake Service (2) the funeral liturgy (Mass) or “Rite of Christian Burial”, and (3) the burial or Rite of Committal (Interment). Ideally, funeral rites should be planned before death. Final arrangements for the funeral rites or services are made through concurrence by the family, priest or presider, and the mortuary.