Meet the Griffin Family
Blessed to Enter into the Catholic Faith Together
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he Easter Vigil was a night of joy for the whole Griffin family. After a long journey of learning and preparation, Jason and Ann Griffin were blessed to see four of their six children received into the Church. Wyatt, 16; Jacob, 15; Keilleyanna, 14; and Kayla, 12 received the sacraments. “It was absolutely beautiful,” Jason says. “I kept hearing that the Mass would be long and intricate, and it was, but I wished it was longer. My least favorite part of Mass is when it is over.” The Griffin family’s journey together began when the family was leaving the Easter Sunday service at their nondenominational church in 2019. Jason remembers asking his kids if they understood what they were celebrating and none of them really knew even though they had been attending Sunday school. Jason realized that something needed to change if his kids were going to truly understand and embrace faith. The Catholic Church was his first thought. “I have family members that are staunch Irish Catholics and I’ve always been drawn to the Church,” Jason says. So, Jason called up a local priest and then he and his oldest son, Wyatt, went to Mass together. The experience impacted them so much that they went home and had to tell the rest of the family all about it. The effect of COVID-19 meant that they weren’t able to
(From left) Wyatt, Jacob, Keilleyanna and Kayla Griffin
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(From left) Keilleyanna, Kayla, Wyatt and Jacob Griffin
begin RCIA classes right away, but in 2021 they were able to attend RCIA with Fr. Moreno. “He was a wonderful instructor,” Jason says. “He entertained all questions, no matter how off-the-wall they may have seemed.” As Ann learned about the faith, she was surprised to find more connections in Catholicism than she expected with the Protestant church where she grew up. “Some of what my church did growing up was close to what the Catholic religion does, so it was interesting to see what was similar,” Ann says. Most of the kids were old enough to go through RCIA with Jason and Ann — the youngest two, Amber and Allison, were baptized in a Jacob and Wyatt Griffin
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