Please pray for our Confirmation candidates who will be confirmed by Bishop Colaccico on
Saturday, February 26, 2022.
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God of all ages, 
You send out your Spirit to touch the hearts of all people, 
Look kindly on our candidates for Confirmation as they seek to hear your voice. 
  
We pray that you send your Spirit to enlighten, guide, strengthen, console, and open their hearts as they continue to seek a closer relationship with you. 
Help them to truly know the deep and abiding love you have for each of them and fill them with the joy of your presence 
  
As our community prepares these children for Confirmation, make us an instrument of your love, 
Teach us to reverence what is holy in others and to be patience with what we do not understand. 
Deepen our faith and help us to pass it on by our example.
We pray that you continue to guide and sustain us, and teach us the Way of Love 
We praise you through Christ our Lord.
Amen 

As we pray for our candidates, let's not forget to ask the Holy Spirit to work in ourselves.  A great way to begin is by praying the Examen.  
To learn more about this powerful prayer,
click HERE. 
May God continue to bless you,
and all of our newly Confirmed!


Here is the proper matter for the Examen in the twenty-first century: all the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Take the first gifts of faith, hope, and love. Spend a day or a week—or a longer time if you are weak in it—practicing that virtue. Then patiently work through wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude (courage), piety, knowledge, and fear of the Lord…

But never think that living these virtues is merely of personal interest. “These gifts are meant to renew and build up the Church.” (Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel, 130) …And wouldn’t the Church in my place and time be wonderfully attractive if all of us went through the week displaying the “fruit of the Spirit,” walking in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness, and self-control?