Redeemer Journal (Page 11)

In light of this weekend’s confirmation service, you may be wondering what confirmation is and why it is significant. For the first few hundred years of the Church, confirmation was a practice unique to the city Rome and its surrounding diocese.  It gained wider practice in Europe when–in the late eighth century–the emperor Charlemagne prescribed the rites of Rome for the whole of his empire. At that time, confirmation was seen as an extension of the baptismal rite whereby the…

Church of the Redeemer family, We’re starting a church blog that we hope will be a space to spotlight ministries, share our faith stories, build connections and carry on a conversation beyond Sunday afternoons. We will be posting here twice a month, and we want your feedback – and your contributions. Like the weekly e-mails, the blog space will be used to spread information, but we want it to be interactive, with posts and comments from the many voices within…