Confirmation for Catholics?

Question

ok well im a catholic and im gettin ready to get confirmed. and well everyone keeps askin me what that is and i know but i dont know how to explain it... Do you know???

Answer 1

Confirmation is one of the seven sacraments, namely Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Matrimony, and Holy Orders.

Confirmation is one of the three sacraments of initiation, namely Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist. A person who has received all three of these sacraments is considered a fully initiated Catholic.

The priest or bishop lays their hands upon the person receiving Confirmation, the priest or bishop says, "Be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit," the person says, "Amen," and then they are anointed with holy oil (just like King David).

Confirmation:
+ Brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:
+ Roots us more deeply in the divine childhood which makes us cry, "Abba! Father!"
+ Unites us more firmly to Christ;
+ Increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us;
+ Renders our bond with the Church more perfect
+ Gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross

A fully initiated Catholic can be:
+ A godparent
+ A Confirmation sponsor
+ A lector who reads scripture at Mass
+ An extraordinary minister of the Eucharist
. + At Mass
. + To the sick
+ A Sacristan
+ A Cantor
+ And many other ministries

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Confirmation is the sacrament in which a person becomes a full member of the Catholic Church.

Your initiation into the Catholic Church began at Baptism and continued when you received your first Eucharist. Confirmation is the sacrament that prepares you to be a full member of the Catholic Church. The gifts of the holy Spirit that you received at Baptism are made fuller in your life.

Confirmation is not what others call being born again. We are born again in the waters of Baptism. Confirmation is also not when a person decides for himself to be a Catholic. The person being confirmed is already a Catholic.

The Sacrament of Confirmation is a personal Pentacost. At the first Pentacost, the disciples received the Holy Spirit and were given wisdom, understanding, right judgement, knowledge, courage, reverence, and wonder and awe of God and were able to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. The same thing happens to you at Confirmation.

Answer 3

The Sacrament of Confirmation is when a young person Receives the Holy Spirit.

When a baby is Baptized, it is the parents who make the decision for the baby as to what religion he/she will be raised in.

At Confirmation, the child takes on the decision on his/her own, to remain in the Catholic Christian faith.

Answer 4

Wow, how can you be confirmed if you can't explain what you were just taught in classes you had to take before being confirmed?

Anyway, The Holy Spirit descended upon the Deciples and blessed them. It's all there in the gospels. Confirmed believers know.

You will, hope springs eternal.

Answer 5

Since catholics baptize their children as infants or at birth if they are likely to die (I was baptized minutes after I was born) they have what is called confirmation. You see you can be born catholic, baptized as an infant but confirmation is the individual's acceptance of their faith and their commitment to Christ and the Holy Spirit. Each person who is catholic whether born catholic or convert must accept God and the faith for themselves. Hence, the sacrament of confirmation.
Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Catholic students get confirmed by the Bishop during a special mass and receive the holy spirit.

Answer 7

It's a public "confirmation" that you have accepted Jesus Christ, the Son of God as your Savior, (at your First Holy Communion) and now you are accepting the Holy Spirit to lead, guide and direct you as a Christian to live a Christian life in obedience to the command of going out into the world and preaching the gospel.

Answer 8

If you cannot answer than maybe you are not ready to be confirmed. Please talk to your Priest, deacon, youth minister or Sponsor. This should not just be a ceremony you do because your parents told you to do. This is when you make a conscious decision to follow Christ's teachings. Protestant teenagers do this at Baptism, you are doing this at Confirmation, confirming what your parents said for you when they baptized you in infancy. God Bless.

Answer 9

Confirmation is the sacrament given that confirms you in your faith in Jesus Christ, sealing you in the Holy Spirit and opening you to all the gifts of the Spirit. It is given after person has been educated in the Faith and chooses to accept Jesus as their personal savior and become His disciple.

In treating the rite of Confirmation, it is fitting to consider the sign of anointing and what it signifies and imprints: a spiritual seal.

Anointing, in Biblical and other ancient symbolism, is rich in meaning: oil is a sign of abundance and joy;103 it cleanses (anointing before and after a bath) and limbers (the anointing of athletes and wrestlers); oil is a sign of healing, since it is soothing to bruises and wounds;104 and it makes radiant with beauty, health, and strength.

1294 Anointing with oil has all these meanings in the sacramental life. The pre-baptismal anointing with the oil of catechumens signifies cleansing and strengthening; the anointing of the sick expresses healing and comfort. The post-baptismal anointing with sacred chrism in Confirmation and ordination is the sign of consecration. By Confirmation Christians, that is, those who are anointed, share more completely in the mission of Jesus Christ and the fullness of the Holy Spirit with which he is filled, so that their lives may give off "the aroma of Christ."105

1295 By this anointing the confirmand receives the "mark," the seal of the Holy Spirit. A seal is a symbol of a person, a sign of personal authority, or ownership of an object.106 Hence soldiers were marked with their leader's seal and slaves with their master's. A seal authenticates a juridical act or document and occasionally makes it secret.107

1296 Christ himself declared that he was marked with his Father's seal.108 Christians are also marked with a seal: "It is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has commissioned us; he has put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee."109 This seal of the Holy Spirit marks our total belonging to Christ, our enrollment in his service for ever, as well as the promise of divine protection in the great eschatological trial.110

God bless.

Answer 10

when you are born your parents took you to be baptized the reason for baptism is to erase the original sin and to present you to god and make you a catholic, now that you are old enough you choose to CONFIRM what your parents did the day of your baptism