Sacred Heart, Carlton kick off the second of our Confirmation programmes in 2010. We’ll be working with the Confirmation group between February and April!

This is the place for you guys to keep up with our blogs on all our sessions with you and take a look at the photos too!

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February 25th – Images of God

For our first session together we spent a long time getting to know each other. It was really cool to come and meet you guys and we’re really looking forward to working with you over the next few months (hopefully in a bigger space next time!). After a well deserved break we drew our own Images of God  - it was really interesting to see everyone’s different ideas and it made for a cool night prayer display!

See you all next week….

March 4th – Who on earth is Jesus?

After a wonderful clip from Mary Poppins we broke into small groups and started the task of designing Jesus as we think he would be on earth. From fast cars to donkeys these Jesus’ were something else but we were very impressed with your efforts and thank you for all your hard work.

Looking forward to next time…

March 11th – Parish Community

Tonight we started with the challenging task of building the tallest free-standing tower that we could in our small groups – it wasn’t easy! Although there weren’t any successful structures there were more successes when we worked out all the different roles within the parish and hopefully after finding our whether we were a do’er, protector, imaginator, negotiator, co-ordinator, shaper, judge, team worker or specialist we all have a better idea of how we can help within our parishes.

March 25th – Reconciliation

Tonight took on a more reflective atmosphere as we said sorry for things we have done wrong. The end result were some beautiful banners using the ash from the paper which had our sins written on, that we burnt earlier in the evening. We hope you enjoyed the evening, see you soon for our last session!

April 24th – Confirmation names, Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit and Discipleship

There was a LOT packed into this day and you did really well to get through it all. We began by learning a bit about patron saints to help give us an idea of what name to choose as a confirmation name, well done to those of you who got the answers right and to those people who read during the gameshow. Our next activity was to explore and learn about the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. It was a lot of fun doing activities and playing different games to represent each of the gifts and our favourite definitely had to be Awe and Wonder! After that there were yet more things to be done, we watched a clip from Forrest Gump to explore our role today as disciples and then began to prepare the parts for our mass that evening. It was a great celebration of mass with a chance to sing songs, display your banners (from your reconciliation session) and to show off your reading and acting skills.

Good luck with the rehearsal and we’ll see you on the big day!

May 6th – Confirmation Day

Well done everyone!! After all that preparation it was great to be there to see you all get confirmed.

Thanks for all your work through the whole programme and good luck with everything!

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