Tonight is our final Confirmation Intensive for this year. It is also an Open House for parents to attend to see what their kids are up to every Monday evening…hope we get a good turnout.
Anyway, for this evening’s intensive, we are reflecting on the Rite of Confirmation itself, taking each of the following five components of the Rite and putting them “under the microscope” for closer study in preparation for the sacrament which is just a month away.
Whenever he is told of good news, Fr. George Lane, S.J. (President of Loyola Press) immediately responds by saying, “Thank you, Jesus!” What a great example he sets! So, having been blessed with a successful evening for our first Confirmation intensive last night, my first response is just that: “Thank you, Jesus!” Attendance was almost perfect (the kids know by now that if they miss, there’s a make-up, and it’s usually not much fun!). The […]
For our next (and final) Confirmation Intensive, we are focusing on the Rite of Confirmation, which includes the following: the Presentation of the Candidates the Bishop’s Homily the Renewal of Baptismal Promises the Laying on of Hands and the Anointing with Chrism the General Intercessions I’m currently sharing with you what I’m developing for each of these 5 elements of the Rite (the kids will exerience five, 15-minute mini-sessions, one on each of the 5 elements). We […]
Happy Advent! I hope that your Thanksgiving weekend was an opportunity to enjoy family, friends, and some recreation and renewal! Well, it’s back to “work” for me tonight, wrapping up the short unit on Church history. Here’s my plan: As the kids enter, I’ll give them pages from daily newspapers and set them to work finding examples of “bad news.” Each of the kids will share their examples of bad news stories with the group and I’ll talk […]
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Joe,
Thanks for all the great stuff and ideas. Clicking on the links above a I postings of different dates. But when I look through the postings on your blog https://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/ I do not see those postings. Do these come from another blog? Thanks for all you do.
Vince, thanks for your comments. I’m not sure I follow you in terms of posts you’re finding and not finding. If you can be more specific, I’d appreciate it. Basically, in this particular post, I linked to posts from last year.
Last year links explains it. Clicking on the Baptismal promises link displays a posting dated Jan 20. But there is not a posting for Jan 20 from this year. I did not catch the 2009 on the linked posting.
Gotcha….thanks, Vince.