This Spring, after Easter, we will again offer a program on various aspects of the church and our faith. This will prepare interested adults to reaffirm their faith, to be confirmed or to be received into the Anglican Communion.

This year we read together the entertaining and informative book called "Jesus was an Episcopalian . . . and you can be one, too." We read 3 short chapters per week and meet each Sunday in May, beginning May 2.

All are welcome--even if you haven't had time to read ahead. Join us!

What are the distinctions between these three things?

1. Reaffirmation occurs when an adult wishes to “make official” that they have rekindled their faith and wish to grow purposefully.

2. Confirmation is the sacramental rite that happens for those who were baptized as a child, and who are now ready to stand before a faith community and take on the baptismal promises for themselves.

3. Reception is the step whereby a person who has been confirmed already in another faith tradition (that has bishops in apostolic succession) is ready to “make it official” that they’ve become a member of the Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion. Usually those who are received are former Roman Catholics, Lutherans or Orthodox Christians.

Each of these three options happens at a general liturgy of Confirmation and each involves the "laying on" of hands by a bishop.
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