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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