Second Grade Students begin final journey to Confirmation and the Eucharist

This Sunday we will celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. We recall with joy the historic event witnessed by the Gospels of Jesus being baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan river. In the Gospel accounts a voice is heard declaring "This is my beloved Son: hear him," and with this event the public ministry of Jesus of Nazareth is launched.

Students in the Cathedral parish and Choir School who are preparing for the Sacraments of Confirmation and the Eucharist will renew their baptismal promises at the 11:00 AM Sunday Mass. They will gather around the baptismal font, the womb of the Church, to renew the profession of faith made as they were washed and anointed as God's children, being grafted onto the Body of Christ by Baptism.

So the journey begins to the Solemnity of Pentecost, where they will approach the Bishop's hand to be sealed with the image of the Lord and dismissed to the Lord's Table for the first time. Please keep these young people in your prayers.