Our Master of Ceremonies for the Confirmation Conference will be Armando Cervantes.

Armando graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a B.A. in Social Sciences with an emphasis in Public and Community Servicein the year 2004 and just graduated this past summer with an M.A. in Pastoral Theology from Loyola Marymount.  Currently he is the Director of the Youth & Young Adults for the Diocese of Orange advocating and empowering with, by and for Youth and Young Adults in various language communities promoting healthy growth intellectually, emotionally, socially and spiritually.  Always fighting for issues of social justice, (i.e., immigration/abortion/death penalty, etc.) around the Orange County.  He has been a youth minister, teacher, retreat leader, and missionary.

Armando was recently chosen to represent all of North America at World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney Australia at a luncheon with Pope Benedict XVI

• Read all about it from the Catholic News Service here
• Or, check out the story in the L.A. Times here
• And finally, in the Florida Catholic news service website here

To top it all off… he’s also a Black Belt in karate – Hiii..YAH

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