Inter-Faith Series, Confirmation: What are the effects of Confirmation?

Question

Please confine your answer to the question.

Answer 1

A Sacrament is an "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace". So the "effect" - if you will - is you receive God's Grace.

Confirmation is a Sacrament in which the gifts of the Holy Ghost is given to those already baptized in order to make them strong and perfect Christians and soldiers of Jesus Christ.

Confirmation has been variously designated: "bebaiosis" or "confirmatio", a making fast or sure; "teleiosis or consummatio", a perfecting or completing, as expressing its relation to baptism.

With reference to its actual "effect" - let's just say that it is the "Sacrament of the Holy Ghost", the "Sacrament of the Seal" (signaculum, sigillum, sphragis).

From the external rite (must be done by a Bishop) it is known as the "imposition of hands" (epithesis cheiron), or as "anointing with chrism" (unctio, chrismatio, chrisma, myron).

The names at present in use are, for the Western Church, "confirmatio", and for the Greek, "to myron".

Answer 2

Work- study of Doctrine.

Confirmation - a public profession of faith. A person is mature enough to make this choice and understands the commitment.

Public -
This profession of faith is made in the presence of the candidate's friends, neighbors, and pastor in the church, and is accompanied by prayer for God's recognition, acceptance, protection, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Internal -
Gifts. These are wisdom, understanding, discernment, knowledge, strength, godliness, and reverential awe.

External -
After public confirmation the candidate is admitted to his first communion. This is full admission to the body of God's people on earth. Full membership in the "church" as an adult and maturing or mature Christian.

The somber and joyous celebration can be life course altering in both thoughts and deeds.


Source - The denomination of my mother.

Answer 3

in my opinion, no. Baptism introduces us into the Christian apostolate, no longer confirmation. confirmation is strictly what its call implies. it truly is the sacrament which makes company or strengthens the presents of grace that are first gained in Baptism. "The sacrament of confirmation confers a character. via it the baptized proceed their direction of Christian initiation. they're enriched with the present of the Holy Spirit, and are greater heavily appropriate to the Church. they're made good and greater firmly obliged via observe and deed to witness to Christ and to unfold and look after the religion."

Answer 4

We define Confirmation as the sacrament of spiritual strengthening, More concretely, Confirmation strengthens the supernatural life we receive in Baptism. Confirmation increases our sanctifying grace in every way, but mainly in deepening our capacity to remain spiritually alive. It gives us the power of resistance, the ability to resist dangers, and the strength to become more Christ-like until the dawn of eternity.
Confirmation gives us, even before the age of reason, the title to such fortitude as no one else except confirmed believers can claim. It does nothing less than provide us with superhuman strength against hostile forces from within our own fallen nature and from the world and the evil spirit who is literally hell-bent to destroy us.

We might describe the sacramental character of Confirmation by calling it the sacrament of witness to Christ, in the Church and before the world.
In other words, Confirmation is the sacrament of fearless apostolic zeal. Having said this, we are ready to spell out in as clear words as possible what this sacrament gives us the grace to do. In the words of the new canon of law, issued by Pope John Paul II on the first Sunday of Advent in 1983, we are told that by the sacrament of Confirmation, the baptized are “made strong and more firmly obliged by word and deed to witness to Christ and to spread and defend the faith.”
Immediately we see that Confirmation is exactly what its name implies. It is the supernatural, which means superhuman, courage we receive to be apostles of Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

Confirmation is the backhanded way in which certain religions admit that infant baptism is null.