Confirmation

We must confirm our faith in order to endure and overcome.


The pope mentioned as much recently:


"The term Confirmation - he continued - reminds us that this sacrament brings an increase of baptismal grace: it unites us more firmly to Christ; it completes our bond with the Church; it grants us the special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith, to confess the name of Christ and never to be ashamed of His Cross . 'This is why it's important to take care that our children, our young people receive this sacrament. We all take great care that they are baptized : and this is good! But perhaps we were less concerned for them to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation: thus they are stuck in the middle of the journey".  This sacrament "is very important in Christian life, because it gives us the strength to go on ! Let's think a little about this, each of us: Do we, really, care about our children and our young people and that they receive the Sacrament of Confirmation? It is important, this is important. If you have children at home, teenagers who have not yet received it and are old enough to receive it, do everything possible to bring this Christian initiation to completion, so that they receive the power of the Holy Spirit. It is important!. Of course it is important to offer a good preparation to those receiving it, which should aim to lead them to a personal commitment to faith in Christ and to awaken in them a sense of belonging to the Church".


"Confirmation, like every sacrament is not the work of men, but of God, who takes care of our lives to mold us in the image of his Son, to enable us to love Him as He does us this by instilling in us the his Holy Spirit , the action of which pervades the whole person and all of his or her life , as reflected by the seven gifts that tradition, in the light of Sacred Scripture, has always stressed " . He then recalled the seven gifts of "wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of God".  The Pope also announced that after the catechesis on the sacraments, he will dedicate those that follow to the seven gifts.


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