Featured Event
November 16, 2024
Diocesan Confirmation
Washington National Cathedral
November 16, 2024
10:00am
A number of St. John’s confirmands will receive Confirmation into the Episcopal Church on Saturday, November 16 at Washington National Cathedral.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde writes:
The service of Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation of Faith is a moment of great blessing and affirmation in the life of a Christian. It signals a spiritual turning point in a person’s life, a conscious decision to step forward and be counted among other believers, to claim one’s faith and choose to live as a follower of Jesus in community with others.
As Episcopalians, we are characteristically generous about this sacramental moment. We want those who are affirming the faith given them in baptism to be assured that they need not have resolved every spiritual question before being confirmed (for indeed, we proclaim the mystery of faith); those who come to the Episcopal Church from other traditions of Christianity to know that we honor their past; and those who feel called to reaffirm their faith, sometimes at the very moment of invitation to come forward, that they are always welcome to receive God’s blessing.
All are welcome to attend in support our confirmands.