Swim Team 2008 - who's your Patron Saint?

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jmcrae said:
Is “Andinell” a woman’s name? I thought you were a man. 😊

How about St. Margaret Mary? (Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) Or St. Elizabeth (cousin of Mary)? Or Mary?
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Andi… short for Andrea… can’t blame you for that one, though 😃
 
jmcrae said:
He went in order of the statues and windows at the Cathedral. You were the first one in the thread not to know your Patron Saint yet, and because I was assuming you were a man, I gave you St. Joseph, who is at the front of the Cathedral and the first male Saint on the list.

For the girls, the first one is Mother Mary.
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that’s strange…
 
great idea for a thread! I’m still confused I like the idea of taking the name William. It would be in honor of my sponsor who is also my uncle the peroson who lead my wife and I to the church. The other reason would be when my son is confirmed he could chose Michael and our names would be Roland Michael William Smith (me) and my son would be Roland William Michael Smith. I just thought that would be the coolest. I looked up saints on the web and found quite a number of saint Williams. I’m not sure who out that bunch to chose.
 
My RCIA program isn’t discussing this at all, which makes me a trifle disgruntled because I have an excellent patron saint waiting in the wings! Ah well… what the RCIA Director doesn’t know won’t hurt her…

TeresTala
 
TeresTala said:
My RCIA program isn’t discussing this at all, which makes me a trifle disgruntled because I have an excellent patron saint waiting in the wings! Ah well… what the RCIA Director doesn’t know won’t hurt her…

TeresTala
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Make sure somebody knows, or else you might end up being Confirmed under your given name, instead of your Patron Saint.
 
jmcrae said:
Make sure somebody knows, or else you might end up being Confirmed under your given name, instead of your Patron Saint.
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Is that so? I guess I don’t understand how this works! Could someone please explain?

Thanks!
TeresTala
 
TeresTala said:
Is that so? I guess I don’t understand how this works! Could someone please explain?

Thanks!
TeresTala
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The name of your Patron Saint is given to you as a middle name when you enter the Church. It’s recorded on all of your official documents in the Church, and you become known as [Firstname] [Confirmationname] [Lastname], so for example, if your name is Jane Smith, and you take St. Teresa as your Patron Saint for Confirmation, then all of your Church documents would refer to you as Jane Teresa Smith.

When you are Confirmed, they also use your new name to Confirm you, so, in this case, the priest would say, “Teresa, be sealed with the Holy Spirit,” because the person’s Patron Saint is St. Teresa.

But if you don’t let anyone know before the time of Confirmation that you want to take the name of a Patron Saint for Confirmation, then this wouldn’t happen. (It has to be before they start making up the certificates, which happens usually a few weeks before Easter, so you really do want to get on this as soon as possible.)
 
I chose Margaret, for two reasons. I wanted to honour my Aunt Margaret, who has been invaluable to me in helping me along my faith journey - she was overjoyed when I phoned to tell her last week! And I chose it also after St. Margaret of Cortona, who was a penitent - something I can most certainly relate to. 😊

I think both of my Margarets are most excellent role models for me! 😃
 
jmcrae said:
Hey there, all you Tiber Swim Team hopefuls for 2008!!

Five weeks from midnight tonight, you’re all going to have Oil of Chrism dripping down your foreheads.

:extrahappy: :extrahappy: :extrahappy: :extrahappy:

So, yeah - who’s going to be your Patron Saint for Confirmation?

Mine was St. Teresa of Avila. 🙂
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Dripping?!?!?

**DRIPPING??? ** Really? :bigyikes:
 
You know, I didn’t really even think about it - I just sort of assumed it would be a very small amount of oil. A bit like the small amount of ashes on Ash Wednesday?

Am I going to need a bib? LOL :rotfl: I might have one from Red Lobster lying about here somewhere… 😉
 
Miss_Echo said:
You know, I didn’t really even think about it - I just sort of assumed it would be a very small amount of oil. A bit like the small amount of ashes on Ash Wednesday?

Am I going to need a bib? LOL :rotfl: I might have one from Red Lobster lying about here somewhere… 😉
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No, you won’t need a bib, but you might want to have a tissue handy. 🙂
 
jmcrae said:
No, you won’t need a bib, but you might want to have a tissue handy. 🙂
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Definitely! LOL I have this sneaking suspicion I’m going to be a little teary-eyed anyhow. 🙂 I’ve waited a LOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGG time for this! :extrahappy:
 
jmcrae said:
The name of your Patron Saint is given to you as a middle name when you enter the Church. It’s recorded on all of your official documents in the Church, and you become known as [Firstname] [Confirmationname] [Lastname], so for example, if your name is Jane Smith, and you take St. Teresa as your Patron Saint for Confirmation, then all of your Church documents would refer to you as Jane Teresa Smith.

When you are Confirmed, they also use your new name to Confirm you, so, in this case, the priest would say, “Teresa, be sealed with the Holy Spirit,” because the person’s Patron Saint is St. Teresa.

But if you don’t let anyone know before the time of Confirmation that you want to take the name of a Patron Saint for Confirmation, then this wouldn’t happen. (It has to be before they start making up the certificates, which happens usually a few weeks before Easter, so you really do want to get on this as soon as possible.)
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Now in my situtation, I’m John (middle name) Smith. I go by my middle name, but chose a saint John because of sharing the same name. I do not want to be know as John John. Is there a way to fix this?
 
JohnnyReb said:
Now in my situtation, I’m John (middle name) Smith. I go by my middle name, but chose a saint John because of sharing the same name. I do not want to be know as John John. Is there a way to fix this?
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In your case, they wouldn’t add a middle name; your first name would be considered to be your Saint name. 🙂
 
And after this is chosen harken to ALL the kingdom of life IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND SON AND HOLY SPIRIT!!! AMEN They will prove what Father has already said FEAR NOT!!!
 
Greetings all,

I am now a Roman Catholic as of March 22, 2008. I received all 3 sacraments of initiation on Easter Vigil along with 2 other ladies. We all started crying. There were 8 others that received conformation also. I have never been so happy in my life.

Paula

[SIGN]Swim Team 2008[/SIGN]
 
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