Three women confirmed at correctional center

The cafeteria had just been cleared after the dinner hour at the Southern Arizona Correctional Release Center in Tucson and a makeshift altar was being set up on a table at one end of the room.
There, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas commenced a ceremony that confirmed three inmates, Armanda H. Guadalupe Recio, Christina Margaret Groulx and Erica Clarita Rita Legliu.
The ceremony had been scheduled for outdoors but a lingering temperature of 100-plus degrees caused the change in plans.
Some relatives of the women and a couple of dozen witnesses participated the service, which was concelebrated by Father Ron Oakham, pastor of St. Cyril of Alexandria Parish, who volunteers at the prison.
Some of the women served as readers, while another sang a solo during the liturgy.
The three women confirmed were prepared for the ceremony by Kathy Rinehart, who serves as a volunteer at the Center when she isn’t at work in the Diocese of Tucson’s Office of Corporate Matters.
When the service ended, light refreshments were served to all in attendance and happy conversation filled a little time before the three new Catholics and their peers returned to their rooms at the Center, where inmates are held in anticipation of being released.