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Confirmation Mass at Portsmouth Cathedral

On Saturday 8th June 2024, 39 youngsters from our parish of OLSD and 17 from the parish of Fleet and Church Crookham of the North East Hampshire Pastoral Area received the Sacrament of Confirmation by Rt. Rev. Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth at St John’s Cathedral, Portsmouth. The groups were...

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Confirmation Retreat on ‘Forgiveness’

On Saturday, the 18 May was the 11th confirmation session for this year’s candidates and was also their second day retreat as a group.   This theme of the retreat was ‘Forgiveness’ and more importantly the forgiveness and grace that Christ gives us in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.   The sessions...

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Session Seven – Why Did Jesus Die?

The focus of this week’s session was “Why did Jesus die?”  During the session we looked at Christ’s ultimate sacrifice for our salvation, and why God sacrificed himself for us.  Before the session began the candidates placed their phones in the box by the doorway. At the start of the session...

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Session Six – Human Dignity

The focus of this session was Human Dignity. At the start of the session, we collected the phones of the candidates so that they could properly focus on the session and so that they could focus properly on the session and on the tasks and so they did not have...

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Confirmation Learning Document

Session Five – Spiritual Gifts

On Friday the 2nd of February from 7-8.30pm was the 5th confirmation session for this year’s candidates. On Friday the 2nd of February from 7-8.30pm was the 5th confirmation session for this year’s candidates. At the start of the session, we collected the phones of the candidates so that they could properly focus on...

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Session Three – Who is Jesus?

On Friday the 4th of January from 7-8.30pm our lead Catechist, Anthony led our confirmation group for its third session, the evening was like the last session a mix of prayer, fun games, a video testimony and meeting in small groups to discuss who Jesus Christ is?, and the power of...

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Session One – Is there more to life than this?

On Friday 24th November from 7-8.30pm our Lead Catechist, Anthony Connelly led 40 of our young people who have registered to partake in the Confirmation programme in our first session.  The evening was a mix of prayer, fun games, teaching videos and meeting in small groups to think about some of...

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