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Confirmation puts you in touch permanently with the Holy Spirit – who deepens your relationship with Christ and his Church, who daily helps you develop the virtues, teamwork, and generosity necessary to fight the good fight, to run the race, and to finish the course brilliantly.

We gather like this every year and it is good to do so, but this, my friends, is no ordinary time.The abuse crisis is a pervasive and unhappy fact in the life of the Church, a calamity that affects your outlook and attitudes, no matter what division you work in, no matter what ministry you engage in. I’m going to guess that this crisis crosses your mind every day as you come into work and that it confronts you in one way or another during your workday. And in case it doesn’t, there are some who will remind you of it: “Oh, you work for the Archdiocese, don’t you?” Yes, you do, and I’m most, most grateful. All the more reason why it is good that we are here, for a day of refreshment. Sometimes those who run a “field hospital” need a “field hospital”.