My Latest post on Confirmation on Catholicmom.com

My latest on Catholicmom.com is here. 

An excerpt:

First Communion is celebrated with new clothes, presents, and parties. in contrast, Confirmation almost seems like an afterthought. Saving it until later doesn’t seem to help keep kids in the Faith either. They are told that Confirmation is not a graduation, yet it is dangled before them as a goal to achieve after checking off all of the requirements. To them, it seems like accumulating enough credits to graduate. And what do people do after they graduate from something? They move on! Even Pope Francis calls it a “Sacrament of Farewell.

Read more of my posts on confirmation here. 

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