Congratulations! What a big step for you in your faith journey!

I was brought up Catholic as well; still practicing, still trying to get it right, he he. But when it came time for confirmation, I just didn't understand what it was all about so I chose not to. I felt like I was being asked to make an adult decision, but I was just a kid! (I was "supposed" to be confirmed in 7th grade. So that's what, 13, or 14?) It was the year the Bruins won the Stanley Cup and in the class where we had to select a "hero," everyone was naming Bobby Orr. Not a hockey fan, no one in my family is, I didn't understand what the hockey had to do with the religion class. (I said Robert Kennedy, and the class yelled at me "And Bobby Orr too, right?")

When I was 32, I decided I was ready, so I took the year of class and was confirmed. What a sweet event. I had a party and many of friends came. I was living in Maine at the time, so it was a full day for many of them, traveling up and back afterwards. One of my good friends was my sponsor. She and her husband and youngest son (he was 5 weeks old) came and stayed for the weekend. Their 3 year old son stayed with his grandparents. I have a video of the ceremony.

I remember going through a book Sister loaned me, with one page summaries about the saints, to select a name. I loved the work Mother Cabrini did, but I already HAD Frances as my first middle name (we were all baptized with 2 middle names in our family). So I selected Angela, for Saint Angela Merici, co founder of the Ursilines. I liked her work as well.

I hope you have lots of photos from the ceremony, to look back in years to come.