Confirmation & Baptism

• White Garment - symbolizes purity 
• Candle - symbolizes the light of Christ
• Oil - represents the Holy Spirit's presence and anointing
• Water - symbol of divine life as well as a sign of purity and cleansing from sin.
• Sign of the Cross - Making this over a child during the baptism invokes God's protection and asks for entrance into the body of the Christian church.
• You cannot receive the other sacraments if you were not baptized
• By Baptism all sins are forgiven, original sin and all personal sins, as well as all punishment for sin.
• We cannot receive the sacrament of Confirmation twice.
• Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit, and the door which gives access to the other sacraments.
• Baptism is birth into the new life in Christ.
• Confirmation is one of the Sacraments of Christian Initiation.
• Confirmation strengthens the grace of Baptism.
• The Holy Spirit empowers us to bear witness.
• Through the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we receive during the sacrament of confirmation, we become true witnesses of Christ.
• The Sacrament of Confirmation is necessary in the life of Christians.
• Confirmation - completes the grace of Baptism
• Bishop - completes the grace of Baptism
• "Be sealed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit." - Form of the Sacrament of Confirmation
•  It seals the recipient with the Holy Spirit - The significance of Confirmation
• signifies the anointing of the Holy Spirit - significance of the chrism used in the sacrament of Confirmation
•  Laying of Hands and Anointing with the Oil of Chrism- 2 symbols of the sacrament of Confirmation
• Baptism , Communion and Confirmation - three sacraments of initiation
• Anointing with oil of chrism is done by the bishop or priest.
• The sacrament of confirmation gives us the power to be witnesses of Christ, even unto death.
• Confirmation completes our baptismal grace.