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John Smith

1234 Pewaukee Rd.

Pewaukee, WI 53072

Archbishop Jerome Listecki

Archdiocese of Milwaukee

Archbishop Cousins Catholic Center

P.O. Box 070912

Milwaukee, WI 53207

January 1, 2014

Your Excellency Archbishop Listecki:

Greetings in Christ! My name in John Smith and I am a junior from Pewaukee, WI. I am also a

member of Queen of Apostles Parish, and I am writing to request from you the Sacrament of

Confirmation when you visit on May 30, 2014.

I have been involved in the Church my whole life, going to Queen of Apostles school up until

fifth grade and then into the Pewaukee public school system where I play varsity basketball and

am a member of several honor societies. I miss going to Catholic school, but I have enjoyed my

time in religious education at Queen of Apostles. At Queen of Apostles I have had the

opportunity to go to the Wisconsin Catholic Youth Rally which was really neat. I also hope to go

to the Steubenville Youth Conference this summer.

Speaking of saints, I have chosen St. John Vianney as my confirmation saint. I remember hearing

about him a lot during a thing my church did for “The Year of the Priest” and I thought he was

really cool. I do not really think that God wants me to be a priest, but just to have the sort of faith

he had to go into a tough little village where he was unwanted and to change the whole place by

just loving and serving and offering Mass and hearing confessions is amazing. I think sometimes

it’s hard to not think of saints as doing amazing miracles all the time and that can be a little

intimidating to me and a lot of other people, so I thought it was important to have someone with

such a simple faith as my confirmation saint. Hopefully he can help me be just like him one day.

I want to thank you for taking the time to read this letter and I look forward to our Confirmation

Mass. I really want to try and take my faith more seriously, even though I don’t get it all

sometimes, and I know that the Sacrament of Confirmation can help me do that for the rest of my

life.

In Christ,

John Smith

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