Confirmation Level III
April 19, 2012
Happy Easter, My dear Confirmation Families!
I pray that your Easter season has gotten itself off to a good start and that you find yourselves refreshed
and revitalized after a this week of feasting!  While Easter Sunday was already over a week ago, Easter
is really only beginning. That’s right – Catholics celebrate Easter for FIFTY DAYS – straight through to the
feast of Pentecost, when Jesus sent his Holy Spirit to encourage and strengthen the apostles and the
early Church.
Our little Confirmation family has much to celebrate this Easter season! Last week, four of our students
were welcomed into our Big Catholic Family through the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy
Eucharist. We welcome Eli Couvillon (8th), Kenya Cardona (8th), Ruby Henriquez (8th) and Vanessa
Cardona (10th)! These four students, along with eleven others, are the newest members of our OLL
Community, and we are so blessed to have them. Now, as they enter into what we call the period of
“Mystagogia,” they need your prayers more than ever. This term means, “Going deeper into your faith”
and it encompasses the entire first year after an adult member of the community has been baptized. It is
during this time that these individuals will get the opportunity to learn and understand not only what it
means to be a “regular catholic in the pews” but also to be an active member of a vibrant parish and
loving family that we have here at Our Lady of Loretto. Please pray for all of our neophytes
(“beginners”) as they enter into this year of new discoveries and deepening faith.
SCHEDULE FOR APRIL & MAY – CONFIRMATION LEVEL III
Thursday 4/19 (tonight) – class, 7pm
Thursday 4/26 – class, 7pm
Thursday 5/3 – Confirmation Rehearsal for Students and Sponsors – 7pm in the Church
Friday 5/4 – CONFIRMATION MASS, 6PM. (ALL STUDENTS REPORT TO LIBRARY AT 5PM.)
DRESS CODE FOR CONFIRMATION MASS – STUDENTS AND SPONSORS
Men- slacks, long-sleeved, collared, button-down shirt, tie. Dress shoes.
Women – slacks or skirt/dress of modest length (knee-length or longer); blouses/dress tops must
provide full coverage. Sweaters will be provided, courtesy of the Confirmation teachers, if necessary.
Absolutely no: jeans, tennis shoes, spaghetti straps.
Please see the reverse of this page for a note from Pope Benedict 
At Easter, on the morning of the first day of the week, God said
once again: “Let there be light”. The night on the Mount of
Olives, the solar eclipse of Jesus’ passion and death, the night of
the grave had all passed. Now it is the first day once again –
creation is beginning anew. “Let there be light”, says God, “and
there was light”: Jesus rises from the grave. Life is stronger than
death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate.
Truth is stronger than lies. The darkness of the previous days is
driven away the moment Jesus rises from the grave and himself
becomes God’s pure light. But this applies not only to him, not
only to the darkness of those days. With the resurrection of Jesus,
light itself is created anew. He draws all of us after him into the
new light of the resurrection and he conquers all darkness. He is
God’s new day, new for all of us.
(Pope Benedict XVI, Easter Vigil Homily)
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2012/documents/hf_benxvi_hom_20120407_veglia-pasquale_en.html