#238. Sharathon 2024: The Confirmation Party Planning Committee!

Following up on last year’s Baptism party episode, the Ladies are once again forming a Party-Planning Committee — and this time, they’re tackling confirmation.

In this three-segment Sharathon episode, the Ladies provide friendly advice to anyone hosting a confirmation party. Erin (recipe subcommittee) starts things off with an Apostles’ Creed-themed menu, featuring gingerbread, Braunschweiger (a “lost and condemned food”), and red-and-white gelatin poke cake. Sarah (music subcommittee) explores several hymns that are appropriate for confirmation, including “Christ Be My Leader” and “Shepherd of Tender Youth.” Finally, Rachel (subcommittee for interesting conversation) ends the episode with a short Trivia Challenge on the history of confirmation.

Sources referenced in Rachel’s Trivia Challenge:

• John M. Brenner, “A Brief Study of Confirmation” (BrennerConfirmation.pdf (wisluthsem.org))
• A History of Confirmation - About Catholics
• The History and Development of the Sacrament of… | Loyola Press
• Sacraments? Baptism? Confirmation? - The Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville (pclawrenceville.org)
• What do I need to know about confirmation in the UMC?
• Confirmation Facts for Kids (kiddle.co)
• The Recovery of Memorization in Confirmation: A Study of Junior Confirmation at Concordia Lutheran Church, Geneseo, Illinois (lutherancatechism.com)
• The Confirmation Slap | Latin Mass Society (lms.org.uk)

Learn more about Sharathon 2024 and give now at kfuo.org/sharathon.

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