The Sacrament of Confirmation
The standard time for Confirmation is in the eighth grade. Participation in the parish middle school youth ministry program – for both the seventh and eighth grade year is required to be confirmed.
Confirmation
"By the sacrament of confirmation, the baptized are more perfectly bound to the church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed."
-Catechism of the Catholic Church