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A Confirmation & a Meditation on Event

A Confirmation & a Meditation on Event

Finding Signal in all the noise of an "obsolete" event

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Kale Zelden
May 12, 2025
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My son Jack got confirmed yesterday here at the Abbey church. He took the name Maximillian Kolbe and his sponsor is my own godson and nephew Sam. Much ink has been spilled and hot air expended on the topic of confirmation in the Catholic church. It has become a kind of sacramental hot potato, misunderstood, argued about, passed around. I did it as a hig…

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