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SACRAMENTAL POLICIES (Contents):

   The Sacraments in General

   Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities

Baptism:

   General

   Infant Baptism

   Sponsor: Affidavit of Eligibility for the Ministry of Baptism and Confirmation Sponsor

Confirmation: 

   Letter from Archbishop John C Wester

   Confirmation Sacramental Policy (2019)

   Sponsor: Affidavit of Eligibility for the Ministry of Baptism and Confirmation Sponsor

   Junior High and High School Faith Formation Program Schedule (sample)

   Permission slips

   Photographic Image Consent

   Retreats

Eucharist:

   Ministers

   Guidelines for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

   Celebration of the Holy Eucharist

   Participation in the Holy Eucharist for the First Time

      Permissions slip

      Photographic Image Consent

   Reservation of the Holy Eucharist

   Exposition and Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament

   Stipends received for the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist     

   Ministry to the Sick and Homebound    

Marriage:

Marriage policy:

   Preparation for Marriage

   Civil Requirements

   Interfaith and Interdenominational:

      Guidelines for Receiving Holy Communion

   Teen Marriages

   Places and Times of Marriage

   Wedding Pictures at Catholic Churches

   Witnesses for Marriage

   Special Situations      

Anointing of the Sick:  

   People of God Archdiocesan Magazine  

Funeral Guidelines:  

   Archdiocese of Santa: Order of Christian Funerals Guidelines (2012)

   Don't Scatter the Ashes! (2009)

   No dispersen las cenizas! (2009)

   To Honor the Dead (1997)

   Cremation and the Order of Christian Funerals, USCCB  

   Instruction Ad resurgendum cum Christo regarding the burial of the deceased and the

      conservation of the ashes in the case of cremation (VATICAN)

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