Confirmation

Symbols of Confirmation:

Effects of Confirmation:

  • Outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted on the day of Pentecost.
  • Increase and deepening of Baptismal grace.
  • Roots us more deeply in being children of God.
  • Unites us more firmly to Christ.
  • Increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us.
  • Renders our bond with the Church more perfect.
  • Special strength to spread and defend the faith by word and action and to confess the name of Christ boldly and to never be ashamed of the Cross.
  • Indelible spiritual mark.
  • Perfects the common priesthood of the faithful and the power to profess faith in Christ publicly and officially.

Catechism of the Catholic Church #1302-1303

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