When I was preparing for confirmation in my junior year of high school, the talk of the parish library where my peers and I met for CCD was of patron saints. Each of us was invited to pray about which saint would become our particularly close friend in heaven, and with the priest’s approval, the bishop would then bless us with the addition of the patron saint’s name to our own – a fresh animation of the vows already declared at baptism with the promise of a loyal spiritual companion.
st. agnes, pray for us
st. agnes, pray for us
st. agnes, pray for us
When I was preparing for confirmation in my junior year of high school, the talk of the parish library where my peers and I met for CCD was of patron saints. Each of us was invited to pray about which saint would become our particularly close friend in heaven, and with the priest’s approval, the bishop would then bless us with the addition of the patron saint’s name to our own – a fresh animation of the vows already declared at baptism with the promise of a loyal spiritual companion.