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Sacrament of Confirmation

Confirmation is a sacrament of initiation in the Catholic Church that brings one deeper into communion with the Church. It completes baptism and marks a transition to spiritual maturity where one confirms the promises made at baptism on their own behalf. The sacrament involves anointing with chrism oil and a prayer by the bishop saying "be sealed with the Holy Spirit." Only baptized individuals can receive confirmation. Like baptism, it imprints an indelible mark and can only be received once.

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Sacrament of Confirmation

Confirmation is a sacrament of initiation in the Catholic Church that brings one deeper into communion with the Church. It completes baptism and marks a transition to spiritual maturity where one confirms the promises made at baptism on their own behalf. The sacrament involves anointing with chrism oil and a prayer by the bishop saying "be sealed with the Holy Spirit." Only baptized individuals can receive confirmation. Like baptism, it imprints an indelible mark and can only be received once.

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SACRAMENT OF

CONFIRMATION
GROUP 2
What is Catholic
Confirmation?
Confirmation is a Sacrament in the Catholic
Church in which the one who is confirmed
(confirmandi) receives the gifts of the Holy
Spirit through the imposition of hand and
anointing with oils by the bishop. It’s
considered a sacrament of initiation which
means that it brings you deeper into
communion with the Church
• The sacrament of confirmation completes
the sacrament of baptism. If baptism is the
sacrament of re-birth to a new and
supernatural life, confir- mation is the
sacrament of maturity and coming of age.
• During your Baptism, your parents and
godparents make promises to renounce
Satan and believe in God and the Church
on your behalf. At Confirmation, you
renew those same promises, this time
speaking for yourself.
• Confirmation is a true sacrament instituted
by Christ and different from baptism. It is
administered by laying-on of hands and
anointing with chrism accompanied by
prayer. The chrism is blessed by the bishop
and the bishop administers the sacrament.
All baptized persons can and should be
confirmed. The effect of the sacrament of
confirmation is to give strength in faith and
for the confession of faith and to impress
an indelible character.
Who can receive
Confirmation?
In the Catholic Church,
anyone that has
been baptized properly can
and should be confirmed.
How many times can one be
Confirmed?
“Like Baptism which it completes,
Confirmation is given only once, for it too
imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual
mark, the ‘character,’ which is the sign that
Jesus Christ has marked a Christian with the
seal of his Spirit by clothing him with power
from on high so that he may be his witness.”
(Catechism of the Catholic Church 1304)
What is the matter and form
of Confirmation?
Catholic Confirmation is performed with the
ordinary minister extending his hand over the one
to be confirmed and anointing his/her head with
the oil of chrism saying, “be sealed with the Holy
Spirit.” The actual Confirmation ceremony is much
longer than this, but this is the “meat” of the
action. The oil of chrism is consecrated by the
bishop at the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday and is
reserved for special things like Baptism,
Confirmation, Holy Orders, blessing of tower bells,
consecration of churches, altars, chalices and
patens.
What are the effects of
Confirmation?
In short it is the full outpouring of the
Holy Spirit as once granted to the
apostles on the day of Pentecost.
Confirmation brings Catholics a
deepening of baptismal grace and
unites us more firmly to Christ. It
increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit
and 
leaves an indelible mark on the soul
 just like baptism.
What does a Confirmation
sponsor do?
• Confirmation sponsors “bring the
candidates to receive the sacrament,
present them to the minister for
anointing, and will later help them
fulfill their baptismal promises
faithfully under the influence of the
Holy Spirit whom they have received.”
(Rite of Confirmation, 5)
There are a few requirements to be a Confirmation
sponsor.
• They must be spiritually fit to take on their
responsibility which is evidenced by sufficient
maturity to fulfill their function;
• membership in the Catholic Church and having
received all of the sacraments of initiation (baptism
, confirmation, and eucharist);
• freedom from any impediment of law to fulfilling
the office of sponsor. This means that a sponsor
must be in good standing with the Church (no
public dissent, believes in the teachings of the
Church, and in full communion with the Church).
Here’s what happens at the actual ritual of Confirmation:
• You stand or kneel before the bishop.
• Your sponsor lays one hand on your shoulder and speaks your
confirmation name.
• The bishop anoints you by using oil of Chrism (a consecrated oil) to
make the Sign of the Cross on your forehead while saying your
Confirmation name and “Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
• You respond, “Amen.”
• The bishop then says, “Peace be with you.”
• You respond, “And with your spirit” or “And also with you.”
• And you are now an adult in the eyes of the Church.

Being confirmed in the Church means accepting responsibility for your


faith and destiny. Adulthood, even young adulthood, means that you
must do what’s right on your own, not for the recognition or reward but
merely because it’s the right thing to do

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