Confirmation Ceremony
Most Reverend Denis Nulty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin visited Clongowes yesterday (May 15th) to confirm 18 of our pupils and support them in their adult faith journey. It was a joyous occasion attended by those to be confirmed (confirmandi), their Faith Friends and Sponsors and in the company of their peers in the Third Line. The Rector, Fr Sheil and our Pastoral Coordinator, Ms Dolan had spent many weeks readying the students for the ceremony in the Boys’ Chapel and the service was a great success against a background of sacred music supplied by the Clongowes Schola under the baton of Mr Cyril Murphy
Some years ago Fr Sheil invited Poetry Studentsto volunteer as Faith Friends to the Confirmandi so that each Confirmandus would be ‘accompanied’ along the road of preparation by a senior student. His hope was that the latter (so much closer in time/age to theConfirmandi) would be able to relate better to them – both in understanding possible queries and also in giving more understandable responses! The experience was a great success, proving a very positive experience for the Faith Friend himself, and this year 12 Poetry students again volunteered to accompany the Confirmandi.
The sacrament of confirmation completes the sacrament of baptism. If baptism is the sacrament of re-birth to a new and supernatural life, confirmation is the sacrament of maturity and coming of age. This confirmation in the power of the Holy Spirit complements and completes that of baptism. The effect of the sacrament of confirmation is to give strength in faith and for the confession of faith and to impress an indelible character.
| Confirmandi | Confirmation Name | Faith Friends | Sponsors |
| Diego Benavente | Pablo | Tim O’Brien | Mr Tony Egan |
| Mauricio Benavente | José | Tim O’Brien | Maurice Benavente |
| Dane Cormack | Luke | Fred Sargaison | Anthony Williams |
| Joseph Curley | Oscar | Thomas D’Arcy | Brendan O’Rourke |
| Dan Daly | David | Seán Lysaght | Caroline Daly |
| Fiach Devitt | Patrick | Harry Arkwright | John Devitt |
| John Fleming | Patrick | Ryan McMahon | Bernadette May |
| Alex Hayes | Oliver | Thomas D’Arcy | David Williams |
| Cian Hickey | Michael | Seán Lysaght | Michael McNamara |
| Oisín Hussami | Xavier | Charlie Kelly | Siobhán Murphy |
| Charles Kedde | Michael | Stephen Mo | Hugo O’Donnell |
| Marcus Lyons | Maxinus | Hugo O’Donnell | James Lyons |
| John Malpass | Xavier | John Maher | Honora Faul |
| Matteo Mazzoli | Patrick | Eoin O’Leary | Carmelita Mazzoli |
| James O’Donohoe | Daniel | Charlie Kelly | Andrew O’Donohoe |
| Magnus Runham | Ignatius | Hugo O’Donnell | Ann Phelan |
| Ruairí Ward | Benedict | Hugo Phillips | Cormac Lynch |
| Tadhg Wilson | Xavier | Fred Sargaison | Declan Wilson |
Declan O’Keeffe, Head of Communications
