Youths learn about confession at an early age

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Lisa A. Johnston

There's an excitement in Barb Yoffie's voice when she thinks about children who make their First Reconciliation.

"They have no fear whatsoever," said Yoffie, a coordinator of religious education at St. Clement of Rome School in Des Peres for 16 years. "They're excited when they're about to make their First Reconciliation. They're beaming afterward ... it's like they've been filled with the grace of the sacrament."

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