During this meeting, after starting in the Pine Room, we rotated to different classrooms to hear from a variety of speakers about how they live their faith in the world in life and work.
I think there were 4, and two that I remember were a lady who spent time serving in a different country, even learning another language, and a man who worked with the SEC.
Certainly, we learned many important aspects about faith. This meeting was an important point to help us see how we are called to live out faith in our lives, and truly let Confirmation impact how we live. As I reflect, I realize that we had many examples of people living out their faith in the mentors for our groups. My Dad even served as a mentor, although for a different group than mine. They gave of themselves to support us and accompany us in the journey toward encountering God in Confirmation.
Notably, 9 years later, I was back at Ascension for a monthly Confirmation meeting on Sunday, April 6, 2014, which was 11 years ago today. I now had the role of serving as a mentor accompanying a group of five students in preparing for Confirmation. There's no doubt that my time participating with St. Teresa's in college helped build on my COnfirmation of 2005 and I answered the call to put faith into action by participating in handing on the faith to the middle schoolers I was interacting with. The focus of the meeting on April 6, 2014, was about our mission. God calls His people to a mission, even granting a new name to those He calls, like He did from Abram and Jacob. The whole purpose of their lives was directed by a powerful sense of His presence at work in them.
While I didn't realize it back on April 6, 2005, God was at work as I listened to those speakers in setting me on a course to live in a whole new way with the power of the Holy Spirit at work in driving me forth to live my faith in the world.
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