Given how much of an impact my Confirmation has had on my life, I'm eagerly looking ahead to October 15, 2025, when I mark the 20th anniversary of that sacred Kairos moment.
Today, I reflect on what happened when I started the process of preparing.
My parents both had to complete a form that officially registered me. I remember glancing over it, and noticing what my parents said in response to a question about what made me ready.
At that time 20 years, as might be typical for many at that age, I participated in Confirmation because there was a parental expectation, much as I was taking on many responsibilities as I journeyed through adolescence into adulthood.
Yet as I reflect back on the experience, I think I was ready for more than just going through motions of expectations.
The great irony in my experience of attending Percy Julian Middle School, a public school, is that encountering people of other cultural and religious backgrounds caused me to turn inwardly and reflect more on who I am, which led me to more greatly appreciate who I am.
I laid aside disinterest in religion, including Mass attendance, and I embraced who we are as a Church and what we do, along with my part in it.
That appreciation grew throughout 6th and 7th grade, so that by the time I began preparing for Confirmation in 8th grade, the Spirit had been at work to make me ready for what I would learn and how I would encounter God.
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