Anniversary of my Confirmation

Wednesday the twenty-seventh was the three-year anniversary of my Confirmation (and of my Conditional Baptism and First Penance and of the day Chris proposed marriage to me). For us Catholics, Confirmation is a big deal: it imparts "a special sacramental grace consisting in the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost and notably in the strength and courage to confess boldly the name of Christ" (see here).

Chris gave me a dozen roses, a beautiful card wishing me a "happy birthday into the faith" and thanking me for everything I've given up for our marriage, and three chocolate truffles--one to represent each year. In the evening we went to a weekday Mass, which at our parish on Wednesdays happens to be the Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Latin Mass), our favorite. Chris also bought us a small portion of a gorgeous, decadent chocolate cake for dessert, of which we allowed John to eat a sliver. Here is a photo of sweet, tangible evidence of my full religious conversion three years ago: my delightful 20-month-old boy (signing for MORE cake!):


Thank you to my husband Chris, my confirmation sponsor Erica, the priestly minister (Fr. Novokowsky) and then-subdeacon (now-Fr. Gerard) who presided, and my confirmation patron saints, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Mary Magdalene.