Confirming a Parent Session for Your Household
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church · FormsHow to use the confirm link in the email your parish sends, so that a Parent Session make-up counts for your family.
You are the parent or guardian whose email address your parish has on file. Someone submitted a Parent Session make-up form for your family, and your parish emailed you a link. You do not need to sign in.
A form that anyone can open without signing in cannot prove who sent it. The parish credits your family only after the parent on file confirms by email, so nobody can mark a Parent Session as complete for a family by mistake.
What you will do, in one sentence
Open the link in the email, then select Confirm once.
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1. What the email is
After someone submits a Parent Session make-up form for your family without signing in, the parish sends one email to the parent address on file. The email holds a single link.
Your family gets no credit until you use that link. If you did not expect the email, do not select the link. Tell your parish's Faith Formation office.
2. Confirming
- Open the link in the email.
- Read the page title, Confirm your Parent Session.
- Select Confirm.
- Wait for the green message: Thank you. Your Parent Session is now recorded as complete.
The page does nothing until you select Confirm. Mail programs that scan links cannot use up your link by mistake.
3. What can go wrong
| What the page says | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| This link was already used or has expired. | The link works once, and it stops working after a set time. Your family may already have its credit. | Contact your parish's Faith Formation office. Do not ask for a new form. |
| This link is not valid. | The link is incomplete or changed. | Open the whole link from the email again. Copy the full address if the link wraps onto two lines. |
| We could not confirm right now. | The page could not reach the parish system. | Wait a few minutes. Select Confirm again. |
4. Quick reference card
The whole thing, in three lines
- Open the link in the email from your parish.
- Select Confirm once.
- Look for the green Thank you message.
When to stop and ask
- You did not expect the email.
- The page says the link was already used, and you have not used it.
- The page says it could not confirm, and it still fails after a few minutes.
Your parish's Faith Formation office