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I just finished a conversation with our old priest, asking us if we had made any further moves towards Chrismation. The truth is we have...sort of. Our current spiritual father (a monk at the New Skete monastery where we attend services every week as we live in Cambridge now) is kind of hands-off ish when it comes to us. I guess no real direction is a symptom of the catechumenate in a lot of places. Anyway. We're working on saying prayers together when we can, reading the Bible, and just living out the Faith every day.

Fr. Christopher asked if we had considered being Chrismated at our old church when we come back for Pascha. The idea is really intimidating for a couple of reasons: are we rushing, will my parents be able to make the baptism of our little girl, and what about this whole confession thing?

I'm really nervous about that last part. I don't really get it: how, what, when, etc. How does one prepare? I'm full of nervous anticipation.