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If someone's baptized and has First Holy Communion, do they really need to be confirmed?
I remember my confirmation, but was it really that big of a deal?
How does confirmation help you?
One of the best things I get to do, as a bishop, is to confirm young people.
And when they're standing in front of me and I'm anointing them with chrism, and I'm looking into their eyes,
I can tell there's something powerful occurring. I can tell there's something special happening.
They're open to God in a way that perhaps, they never have been.
For us, as Catholics, confirmation is really the completion of baptism.
Most of us were baptized as infants. Our parents made that decision of faith for us.
In confirmation, we confirm, we affirm, we say, "yes" to that decision of faith.
We say "yes, I want to live my Catholic faith. I want Christ to be the center of my life."
On Pentecost Sunday, the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles in fire and wind
and anointed them to go forth and to proclaim the Gospel to every creature...
to fulfill that mission of Christ.
We, as Catholics, receive that same Holy Spirit.
The same Holy Spirit that descended upon the early Church,
the same Holy Spirit that overshadowed the *** Mary when she conceived Jesus.
For those of us confirmed, for those of us preparing for confirmation,
for those of us thinking about confirmation, we know that it's not an ending, it's a beginning.
It's not a graduation from religious ed. classes, it's a whole opening of Christ in our life.
So, we are called to go forth and to live that mission of Christ.
Confirmation helps us to do that...
gives us the grace and the power and the energy to make Christ's mission complete.
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