Confirmation saint. Can't decide between two

[leslie85]

So, I’m drawn to two saints sofar, St. Frances of Assisi and St Teresa of Avila. I’ve done what research I could about them online, but still hunger for more information about them. I was hoping I could get a couple of book recommendations about each one. For St Teresa a book about her life and one of her books on prayer because I am realy struggling with that, both in practice and understanding.

 

[Auntie_A]

I just found the book: "The Autobiography of St Teresa of Avila’. I am struck by her recollections of her secular life. She avoids most specifics but you get the sense of a woman who was not sheltered from the world. She was a very earthy mystic, saint, religious, human.

She is one of the “doctors of the Church”.

PS One of my catechism students chose two saints…“Francis Teresa”?

 

[dee_burk]

Ask you RCIA director if you can have 2. Some allow this practice, ours does.
I plan on using both St Gemma and St Peter.

 

[acadiANNA]

My confirmation class teacher who was a nun said that girls had to pick a female saint and the boys had to pick a male saint for their confirmation name. Is this more lenient now? And we could have only one.

 

[Loving_disciple]

So, I’m drawn to two saints sofar, St. Frances of Assisi and St Teresa of Avila. I’ve done what research I could about them online, but still hunger for more information about them. I was hoping I could get a couple of book recommendations about each one. For St Teresa a book about her life and one of her books on prayer because I am realy struggling with that, both in practice and understanding.

Choose the one that matches your gender

 

[TRH1292]

My confirmation class teacher who was a nun said that girls had to pick a female saint and the boys had to pick a male saint for their confirmation name. Is this more lenient now? And we could have only one.

Not true at all. You do not have to have a confirmation saint that matches your gender. I myself, a male, have a female confirmation Patron saint.

 

[Rae8]

My confirmation class teacher who was a nun said that girls had to pick a female saint and the boys had to pick a male saint for their confirmation name. Is this more lenient now? And we could have only one.

NO. That is not true unless its something that is dictated by diocese. I am female and have a male patron saint. There is a monk I see all the time on EWTN whose saint is Mary.
So maybe your teacher is very old school. They changed this many many years ago from what I was told.