A Baptism and Confirmation

Reflections and Thanksgiving

Yesterday, before the Sunday Mass, an adult was baptised and confirmed at my church. Being a church which practises the 1962 rite, it was my first experience of the old rite of baptism and confirmation. I was familiar with it through my reading, but to see it in person was interesting and, as it turned out, very moving.

I arrived at the point where the c…