| The remaining confirmands thought the hug was part of the ritual, and did the same. |
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| The 70 confirmands had received some prior training and here were given a diploma and rose. |
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| Even so, email prayer partnerships established between youth confirmands and older shut-ins bring generations closer together. |
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| That was all the priest who taught our group of confirmands believed to be necessary, and it was not adequate. |
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| When, in the next years, the churches decided to retain the practice of confirmation, this blessing with the laying on of hands was retained only for the confirmands. |
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| Two of its young confirmands, brothers ages 13 and 16, have autism, one severely, the other moderately. |
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| Niedergeses told me that he got a list of all of the confirmands in the diocese and sent each one an individual letter. |
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| I remember at our Confirmation, when I was about 11, he stood at the door of the church after Mass and greeted the confirmands. |
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| In addition to the seventy confirmands, there were an estimated 600 relatives and guests, including members of the IHEU General Assembly and Executive Committee. |
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| In addition to weekly German and Polish worship services, Gerss held services in the local prison and taught classes for adults and 150 confirmands. |
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| Eight months later, they would be introduced by their mentors and welcomed by the congregation as confirmands and graduates of the confirmation program. |
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| The preacher then tells the confirmands, that as a token of their full consent to the confession just made, each of them should kiss the Scroll of the Law. |
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