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It\u2019s confirmation season, and perhaps you or someone you know are struggling with coming up with a confirmation saint name! So, we asked friend of the show, Catholic speaker and author Meg Hunter- Kilmer to help us out.\xa0 Meg was an itinerant missionary for 12 years, currently works in campus ministry at the University of Notre Dame and has written several books about saints, including, \u201cSaints Around the World,\u201d and \u201cPray For Us: 75 Saints Who Sinned, Suffered and Struggled on Their Way to Holiness.\u201d

Meg begins by explaining what she does when helping kids pick a confirmation name, \u201cI say, okay, tell me what kind of saint you're looking for. What are some of your passions? What are some of your hobbies? Do you have an idea of what kind of career you feel like the Lord might be calling you to? What are your family difficulties, your mental illness you struggle with, or chronic illness that you struggle with or disability? Anything that you're like, you know, what, here's a significant thing about me. And some kids come with a list of things that matter to them, and I can say, well, here's the saint who checks a couple of those boxes.\u201d

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Meg recommends doing some research on saints to see if there is a saint that really sticks out to you or has some attributes that you identify with. Meg goes on to say, \u201cBut if you've got a saint you just love and there's no good reason, that's a pretty good reason to pick them for your confirmation.\u201d

Father Dave shares his experience of choosing a confirmation name when he was 13 years old., \u201cMeg, I have to tell you, that when I was 13, and had to pick my confirmation name, I did not have the resources at my disposal . . .so here was my whole discernment:\xa0 At the time, I wanted to be a doctor and I heard that Thomas Aquinas was a Doctor of the Church, so I picked Thomas Aquinas.\u201d\xa0\xa0

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The Busted Halo\u2019s Show\u2019s producer, Krista, and co-host, Brett go on to share their silly reasons for picking their confirmation saint names.\xa0 Krista picked St. Angela Merici because she liked the way it sounded in her name. Brett chimes in, \u201cMine is even dumber and I wish I had the opportunity to go back and change it. . . at the time, people kept asking me what Brett was short for and I would tell them that it was short for Bartholomew, so I just chose St. Bartholomew.\u201d

Meg responds by saying, \u201cHere\u2019s the beautiful thing, you can pick a confirmation name for a real dumb reason and you're still going to end up with someone awesome.\u201d\xa0

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