My Confirmation!!!

Today I was(finally) confirmed in the Church. My Mother, Betty, showed up and my cousin Mark acted as my sponsor. I decided to have it done at St. Margaret Mary's daily morning Mass partly because I prefer the crowd(about 50 devout regulars) and the service is more respectful(social activity takes place after and not before or during Mass) then what one finds on the weekend.

Besides the gift of the Holy Spirit that is given as part of the sacrament, I received a few other cool things as well. Before Mass started, Mark gave me a very nice rosary that belonged to our Grandmother. It's has one of those crucifixes that opens up and contains tiny Saint Relics...Peter, Rosae, Catherine, Dominic and Benedict. Very Cool! After Mass, as people were coming up to congratulate me, one gentleman gave me his gold cross pendant. I didn't see that one coming! The funny thing is, I've been thinking about and looking for one anyway. God Bless him!!

But that coolest thing was not a thing. It was in fact another form of confirmation, of the verbal sort. During any given Morning Mass there is always this one guy(one of the eucharistmic ministers) who, when its time to ask for special prayers, asks for," an increase for vocations to the priesthood". Today was not only his turn to do the readings, but I found myself in his line to receive the Blood of Christ. This in its self is not out of the norm, but what he said after Mass, as he was congratulating me, definitely was. I thought maybe it's because I'm one of, if not the, first to show up in the Morning. I tend to pop up about 40 to 30 minutes before Mass so I can pray and meditate. But as he shook my hand, he told me that he thought there was a definite Holiness about me. That floored me. I should have told him I thought the same of him(cause I do), but I just thanked him and said," I try, I try". Of course he said,"that's all we can do". How can one be humble when you get a complement like that? I don't know, but I'm going to "try".

(I almost forgot...I chose St. Augustine of Hippo as my patron saint, thus Augustine as my confirmation name. I'll type more about this later........ Pax)