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• Who can receive the sacrament of Confirmation

  Every baptized person not yet confirmed can and should receive the sacrament of Confirmation
• To receive Confirmation


  One must be in a state of grace, should receive the sacrament of Penance in order to be cleansed for the gift of the Holy Spirit
• Gifts that help me

  • Courage gives me the ability to stand up for what is right even against popular opinion
  • Reverence/Piety gives me the ability to recognize the greatness and glory of God
  • Fear of the Lord gives me the desire to do right out of love and respect for the enormity and glory of God
• Chrismation (in the Eastern Churches: Anointing with holy myron or chrism)


  The essential rite of the sacrament of Confirmation is anointing with chrism
• Confirmation


  Confirms and strengthens baptismal grace
• Confirmation


  Conferred by anointing with the holy Chrism on the forehead, done while imposing the hands and by the words: "....., be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit."
• Laying of hands


  Symbolizes the coming of the Holy Spirit
• Peter and John laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:17)
• Bishop slapping the cheeks of the candidates

  Signifies that they are now a SOLDIER OF CHRIST who must endure bravely all kinds of trials
• Effects of Baptism


  • Makes us members of the Body of Christ, Witnesses to our new life in Christ, Sharers in Jesus' Priestly and Kingly Functions
• Effects of Confirmation


  • Makes us sharers in Jesus' Prophetic Mission, Deepening baptismal grace, spiritual maturity, responsibility and mission
• Baptism - Sensible signs


  • Water, Candle, white cloth
• Baptism - Form (words)

  I baptize you N... in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
• Matthew 3:13-17


  Jesus' baptism at the Jordan River by John the Baptist
• Effects of Baptism


  • Forgiveness of sin (original & personal sins), becomes an adoptive child of the Father, a member of Christ and a temple of the Holy Spirit
• Confirmation - Matter (sign)


  Chrism Oil
• Confirmation - Form (words)

  Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit
• Confirmation - Minister


  Bishop, Priest
• Effects of Confirmation


  • Increase of sanctifying grace, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Character
• Thomas Aquinas: 'Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments'
• Baptism - Form (words)

  I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
• Baptism - Minister


  Bishop, Priest, Deacon
• Effects of Baptism


  • Cleanses original sin, Make us Christians, Heirs of Heaven, Children of God, Temple of the Holy Spirit, Character, Incorporation of the Church
• Sacraments


  Draw us into a closer relationship to the church, Draw us into a closer relationship to Christ himself, in the Spirit and to the Father
• Sacraments


  Manifest the different ways in which Christ comes to us, meeting us all
• Most Rev. Louis LaRavoire Morrow, STh. D.: 'It is principally through the sacraments that we obtain the grace of God. They are channels by which grace enter our souls, to give them divine life and to nourish them'
• What the sacraments do

  • Celebrate the Paschal Mystery, Demonstrate that Jesus Christ lives, Prefigure our glorious future with Christ at the end of time
• Grace of Baptism


  • Freed from sin (original and personal sin), Reborn as children of the Father ("a new creature"), Become member of Christ (incorporated into the Church), Become Temple of the Holy Spirit, Become sharers in the Church's mission
• Purpose of the sacraments


  To sanctify men and women, To build up the Body of Christ, To give worship to God
• Sacrament


  A saving symbolic act or a visible sign, arising from the ministry of Christ and continued in, by and for the Church, which when received in faith, fashions us into likeness to Christ in his Paschal Mystery, through the power of the Holy Spirit
• Jesus affirmed: "Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)
• St. Peter addressed: "You must reform and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of the Jesus Christ, that your sins may be forgiven and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Act 2:37-38)
• St. Paul states: "Are you not aware that we who were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Through the baptism into His death, we were buried with Him, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead, we too might live a new life" (Rom 6:3-4)
• John baptized with water, but you will be baptized by the Holy Spirit within a few days (Acts 8:15)
• Then I remembered what the Lord has said: John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit (Acts 11:16)
• Baptism


  Necessary for entering the kingdom of God
• Jesus Himself: 'Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.'
• St. Peter: 'You must reform and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of the Jesus Christ, that your sins may be forgiven and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'
• St. Paul: 'Are you not aware that we who were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Through the baptism into His death, we were buried with Him, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead, we too might live a new life.'
• John: 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized by the Holy Spirit within a few days.'