The Date!

[Aaron-Aggie]

I hear ya Matrona...

18½ hours to go!

I'm off to partake in the Sacrament of Penance here at 4:30, then we have our Bishop who will be presiding over our Mass at 5:00 and dedicating our new education center...

Then home to metally get ready some more, then off to bed...

Then I'll be up at 8...and Church by 9...

Ahhhh...can't wait... I am SO excited!!

Don't forget about the Hour Fast before mass

 

[marciadietrich]

Don't forget about the Hour Fast before mass

I wouldn't think that is usually a problem for a convert, I could hardly eat the whole day leading up to Vigil!

Marcia

 

[Debi1967]

BA just sending my Love out ot you and reminding you that there will be an aweful lot of people with you tomorrow. Including me....
Have a great day in the Lord
In Christ Your Sister
Debi

 

[Matrona]

Ahhhh...can't wait... I am SO excited!!

I know how you feel, and I'm so excited for you!! It's not too much longer now! So nice to have this opportunity to reflect on my special day nine months ago. I'd never been baptized or anything in any church, anywhere, or gone through any kind of rite of initiation. It was... beyond words, how wonderful it was. I remember that wonderful, overwhelming sense of peace I felt, the first time I was referred to not as "the catechumen, Courtney" but "the newly-illumined handmaiden of God, Matrona". There aren't enough words to describe what it felt like.

Is anybody else getting confirmed with you?

Love and prayers!!

 

[WesleyJohn]

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[artnalex]

I will be confirmed into the Church on February 1st...

Praise God!

Welcome home, Woody. You will be a blessing to the Church. Anyone can tell that.

 

[BAChristian]

Thanks everyone!

Matrona: Yes, one other person -- we're going to be having fellowship at her house immediately following.

Everyone, please pray for Charalynn as well...

Artnalex, thanks bro. I truly feel the Lord has been calling me to ministry for the last four years...and I believe his calling to His Church is the beginning of my journey into ministry. I am considering the Diaconate. But I'm going to test the spirits for a year while I work in RCIA...

Well, I've got less than 12 hours to go. I can't wait...man I can't wait.

I went to confession tonight. I was so much at peace as I walked out of the chapel. I felt more peace tonight than I did during my first confession.

Oh how great this Sacrament is! It amazes me why more Catholics won't indulge in the graces that God has given us in this Sacrament.

I'm going to be one of those people going a lot and making up stuff to confess, then having to confess again for lying in the confessional...LOL.

Tonight was very special for me also because I got to meet Bishop Vigneron. He blessed my new Rosary that I got for my sponsor Mike.

He said something I thought was funny...

Bishop V: So you are getting confirmed tomorrow? That's great. I bet you're excited! Are you baptized?
Me: Yes...
Bishop V: In what church?
Me: Church of the Nazarene
Bishop V: Oh good...good.
Me: Yeah, I can't wait until tomorrow morning...I think I'll be up all night.
Bishop V: Well that's what we'd call a Vigil...

LOL...

 

[faerieevaH]

*smiles* I prayed for you in mass this morning, BAChristian and lit a candle to Our Lady.
It's such a special moment. I know that each year when 'our children from the catechism classes (catechumen in English?) had their confirmation, I was crying as if I was their own mother. It is a wonderful, strengthening experience for you, but also for all who are there to witness this moment.

 

[Filia Mariae]

BA,

I guess its about 7:30 in California right now, so you may not read this before you leave for Mass, but congratulations. I will be praying for you at Mass today.

WELCOME HOME!

 

[Cathologetics]

I will be confirmed into the Church on February 1st...

Praise God!

Dude! That's today! Sweeeeet! Welcome Home!

 

[boughtwithaprice]

BA,

I guess its about 7:30 in California right now, so you may not read this before you leave for Mass, but congratulations. I will be praying for you at Mass today.

WELCOME HOME!

Its now 0830 in CA..............1hr to go man

 

[faerieevaH]

*joins BAChristian in the hour of fast before mass and keeps him in prayers*

 

[BAChristian]

Well folks...this is it.

I feel so at peace right now...so tranquil...I know God is already pouring his graces out on me.

I could barely sleep...

With that said, 15 minutes to go, and I have to leave...45 minutes until Mass starts.

Oh how I thought this day would never get here...

Praise God...

 

[ej]

 

[ProCommunioneFacior]

!

Let us know how it went when you get back.

 

[Matrona]

Said a quick prayer for you today around 12:30-ish Eastern time...

I was still in church in Bible study at the time--we were doing Romans 8, and all the talk about the spirit of God dwelling in us made me think of you!

 

[Aaron-Aggie]

 

[ukok]

Brother BA, by now you will have been formally received into the Catholic Faith and i want you to know that i am so very pleased for you. Congratulations! This is a wonderful day for you and i am so glad to have been able to have experienced a little of the excitement and anticipation and yearning that has been leading up to this day.

God Bless you.

 

[BAChristian]

Brother BA, by now you will have been formally received into the Catholic Faith and i want you to know that i am so very pleased for you. Congratulations! This is a wonderful day for you and i am so glad to have been able to have experienced a little of the excitement and anticipation and yearning that has been leading up to this day.

God Bless you.

thank you so much uk...you don't know how much that means to me right now.

 

[ej]

Woody!

I prayed for you today in front of the statue you had as an avatar for a while
I felt so happy thinking of you joining the Church!

How did it go?