#confirmation saint

[crazycatsiren]

Blessed feast day of St. Cecilia. 😇

[josephina-arc]

Strangely enough, St Joan of Arc might be my confirmation saint if I become Catholic. I don't want my anxiety to interfere with me doing the right thing anymore. She seems too reckless though.

[lifeofaweed]

I am trying to choose a confirmation saint.

I have been recommended saint joan of arc and saint michael, and this seems like a good fit cause i have been known for loving and being connected to both saints since childhood. But to be honest both are personalities that i find to be a bit brash, and both are heavily connected to law enforcement and i dont like that.

But my other more serious choices are as follows, and i would love feedback!

saint mary magdalene because of her relationship with jesus being so close and special, and because she is a misunderstood outcast like i have been much of my life, and i find her very to be relatable and a role model for living a better life.

saint melangell because her story of chastity is inspiring to me as an assault survivor and her connection to rabbits and the environment is important to me (i had a pet rabbit as a child who i loved very much and keep her ashes to this day). She also just reminds me of a princess and i was jokingly called a princess a lot growing up haha. It is said that on the land of her ancient church no harm can come to women or rabbits, which is comforting!

saint gobnait because she is the saint of bees! And bees are very important to me as well as the environment (i had wanted to be a beekeeper before i was forced to drop out of school)

and saint kateri because my family is native from a sister tribe to her and i would like to reconnect with my past (although i feel conflicted due to the complicated relationship between the church and native people, and i am from the side of the family that no longer has native status) although i do like that she is the saint of ecology

Update: i'm adding saint valentine to the list because i recently had my third seizure, and the neurologist said i likely have epilepsy. And not only is he the saint of epilepsy, but he is also the saint of beekeeping, and of course love! I remember liking him as a kid cause i thought the way he did secret marriages was really brave and cool

[ave-immaculata]

this far into Lent and I still haven't settled on a Confirmation Saint 🙃

I really like my current choice but I just don't.... have a sense of peace about it. Right now it's St. Jude Thaddeus. 7 years before my conversion, I attempted suicide on his feast day (although I didn't know it at the time), and had sort of a Divine Interruption/vision which prompted me to get the medical care I needed. Also, there's a local parish named after him and St. Simon, and I think his intercession played a big part in my, you know, not dying.

I guess the issue for me is I don't feel particularly close to him, certainly not as close as I feel to other Saints.

Another option is St. Mary Magdalene because of her conversion story and repentance, St. Jerome because of his temper and patronage of librarians, or St. Maria Goretti for her forgiveness and purity, but I just don't know. I'm especially fond of St. Joseph and St. Padre Pio as well.

I have such peace about my Baptismal name. Why not this?

Anyway please pray for me 😭

[blessedarethequeer]

Congrats on your upcoming entrance into the church!!! Who is your confirmation saint?

Thank you!! 🥰

St. Peter Faber!

So many writings about him and his life always seemed to come back to his gift for friendship and the quiet ministry of accompaniment, and that just resonated so deeply with my heart. He would follow wherever he was called to walk alongside people, and I really hope I can act on where I am called with such freedom, too. I’m originally from a Lutheran tradition and still really love my community there, so it’s a great comfort knowing, too, that during the Reformation, Faber was praying for the well-being and hearts of the reformers and actually seeking dialogue to understand, instead of cursing and wishing ill upon them. People in his life joined the Church not out fear of the Church or out of missionary pressure, but because they truly saw God’s love through Faber’s friendship, — that is the kind of person I long to be!

My journey into the church really began to accelerate as I fell in love with Ignatian tradition and got to know the Jesuits at my university, so it felt really appropriate, too, that I discerned my way to one of the original Jesuits and the master of the Spiritual Exercises!

[ltc-henry-blake]

Long rambly post about why I love St. Augustine...

So on his feast day, I wanted to write something about why I love St. Augustine so much and why he means so much to me that I chose him out of all the amazing saints to be my confirmation saint. My first exposure to St. Augustine was when I read “On Free Choice of the Will” in my intro level philosophy class, about a year before I starting thinking that I wanted to become Catholic. (This class was one of the biggest things that planted that seed and got me thinking about Catholicism but that’s a different story). So once I got started thinking about Catholicism, I was looking around online trying to find books I should read to learn more about the faith, and I kept seeing St. Augustine’s “Confessions”. I remembered reading him in that class because his philosophy really stuck out to me, so I decided to give it a try.

Within the pages of the “Confessions” I found the most beautiful and heart-wrenchingly honest account of the soul’s desire and search for God such that I could not but feel that desire burning within my own soul. Through the narrative of his life and conversion, I not only found the inspiring story of one man living in darkness who found the light, but saw the potential for all sinners to become saints. St. Augustine’s life is a testament to the fact that it’s never too late to convert, it’s never too late to repent and change your ways, and that there’s hope for all of us. St. Augustine’s words in the “Confessions” touched my soul and brought me to God in such a way that nothing else ever had. I could feel every emotion which he wished to convey spilling out of the pages with an intensity that overwhelmed me. I felt his regret and anguish in his recollections of his early life, I felt his profound thankfulness and sense of unworthiness to God for having reached down and saved him, and I felt his burning, unquenchable desire for God that was the driving force behind the rest of his life. I saw a restless heart who found rest in God, and I knew that that was all I really wanted in my own life.

Since then I’ve learned much more from him and his profound insights into the Divine Nature, helping to instill in me a love of Truth and a desire to more fully immerse myself in the mystery of God. St. Augustine has given me someone to constantly look to for inspiration and aid in my struggles to overcome any temptation that I might be facing, and he has been a constant companion throughout my conversion and in my growing spiritual life. I owe so much to his intercession and I can’t wait to thank him some day.

[blessedarethequeer]

I just wanted to share that I’ve settled in on my discernment of my Confirmation saint -- I will be Confirmed under the name of St. Peter Faber!

I just continue to be drawn to the ways accounts of his life describe his work as a ministry of friendship, the loving approach he had to engaging others + mediating conflict (especially in the midst of the Reformation), and of the gift of gentle accompaniment of those around him, whether in the direction of the Exercises or simply his presence. The idea that people converted or re-dedicated themselves to their faith not out of missionary pressure or fear of the Church, but because they genuinely came to know God's love better through Faber's friendship just seems really beautiful and the kind of presence that I hope I can have in my relationships and in my ministry.

[loki-erlking]

Saint Ailbe of Emly, Patron Saint of Wolves.

Should I engage in the oldest of pagan traditions, that of converting to Catholicism, I would be a toss up between you and Saint Peter as to whom I'd pick as a confirmation Saint.