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As a first-year student from Chicago, Meg Maloney vividly remembers gathering with faculty, staff, and students beneath a big, white tent on the Central Mall for an announcement that would change her life.

This year we had the awe-filled opportunity to journey with eight students as they prepared to receive sacraments of initiation to become Catholic at the Easter Vigil. Four of them were catechumens– unbaptized individuals who received all three sacraments of initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and First Eucharist)-- and the other four were candidates who were already baptized Christians in other denominations and professed their faith and were received in full communion with the Catholic Church and then received Confirmation and First Eucharist.

