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Confirmation Class

Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Confirmation Class. Overview. Holy Spirit Effect of Holy Spirit during Confirmation Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit. Transforms us, leads us, guides us, and inspires us Source of holiness, our comforter and advocate

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Confirmation Class

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  1. Gifts of the Holy Spirit Confirmation Class

  2. Overview • Holy Spirit • Effect of Holy Spirit during Confirmation • Gifts of the Holy Spirit

  3. Holy Spirit • Transforms us, leads us, guides us, and inspires us • Source of holiness, our comforter and advocate • Gives life to the individual believer and to the whole Church • Leads us to truth, guiding the work of the Church • The bishop’s laying on of hands while praying the epiclesis is a symbol of God’s warm embrace of those with when he shares his own divine life through the gift of the Holy Spirit

  4. Effect of Confirmation • A seal or character imparted on the soul (so this sacrament may not be repeated), and • A strengthening of actual grace so that the recipient is enable to fearlessly profess the faith and fight against temptation • One of the effects of the sacrament is that "it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross“ -- making the confirmed person "a soldier of Christ"

  5. Gifts of the Holy Spirit • Capabilities or dispositions that help us grow in our relationships with God and others • We believe the Holy Spirit … • lives in us, • acts through us, • assists us, • strengthens us and • guides us

  6. Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit Wonder and Awe Wisdom Reverence Understanding Right Judgment Knowledge Courage

  7. Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritWisdom • This is where you combine the knowledge and understanding and apply it to your life • The spirit enables you to understand more deeply the truths of faith and to discover their intimate meaning, their hidden treasures and sublime harmonies • You comprehend that there is no contradiction be between rational truths and the divine mysteries

  8. Social Life Work Sports Describe how wisdom, in your personal life, has served you well Home Life Personal Life Family

  9. Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritUnderstanding • This is where we apply the knowledge to our lives • Enables us to understand created things in their relation to God • Understanding helps us become aware of God's plan for us

  10. Social Life Work Sports Describe how understanding, in your personal life, has served you well Home Life Personal Life Family

  11. Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritKnowledge • This is knowing the facts (e.g., the difference between Old and New Testament, the seven sacraments, the books of the Gospel, etc.) • The believer in whom the Gift of Knowledge is active will recognize, when confronted with facts, ideas, circumstance, or any created being, what is in harmony with the truths of Faith

  12. Social Life Work Sports Describe how knowledge, in your personal life, has served you well Home Life Personal Life Family

  13. Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritRight Judgment • Judgment is what we should do or not do in a specific situation • It deepens and perfects our human power of deliberation • We are more sensitive to the movement of the Holy Spirit so with become motivated to act • Avails us to the guiding insights and direction of the Holy Spirit

  14. Social Life Work Sports Describe how judgment, in your personal life, has served you well Home Life Personal Life Family

  15. Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritCourage • Enables you toundertake without hesitation, and to carry on their ultimate ends, the most arduous tasks for God’s glory and the good of souls • Kind of firmness of mind and spirit that we need for doing good and for enduring evil • This gift is especially evident in the lives of the martyrs

  16. Social Life Work Sports Describe how courage, in your personal life, has served you well Home Life Personal Life Family

  17. Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritReverence • The Holy Spirit himself enables us to come to God paying the kind of homage and worship that is appropriate and best • Creates a love toward God as our Father, and sentiments of fraternal love toward our neighbor, including those who may have wronged us • Total dedication to God’s glory and the good of souls

  18. Social Life Work Sports Describe how reverence, in your personal life, has served you well Home Life Personal Life Family

  19. Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritWonder and Awe • Creates a fear which does not interfere with an intimate union with God, our Father, but which keeps us away from anything which might offend God • Leads us to withdraw from any evil and abstain from any action that would ever offend God or impair our relationship with Him • Inspires us to reject all unwarranted affections and discipline our senses

  20. Social Life Work Sports Describe how “wonder and awe,” in your personal life, has served you well Home Life Personal Life Family

  21. Holy Spirit Seven Gifts of the Holy SpiritSynopsis of the Gifts to desire the things of God and to direct our life to the His honor and glory to acknowledge the awesome power and holiness of God and consequently, to dread our sins Wonder and Awe Wisdom to know more clearly the mysteries of our Faith to love god and obey Him because we love Him Reverence Understanding Knowledge Judgment superior knowledge of God as a lovable Being, and an appreciation of all created things in God warns us of the deceits of the devil, and of dangers to salvation Courage the strength to do the will of God

  22. As a Result of These Gifts This Sacrament’s effect “is the full outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost” (1302-1303) • Brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace • Unites us more firmly to Christ • A full outpouring of the Holy Spirit into the soul • Renders our bond with the Church more perfect • Gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the Name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross” • It gives an indelible mark or character

  23. Calling of the Confirmed • Defender of the Faith • You are called to know your Faith, the teachings of the Holy Church, and be willing and able to defend the Faith against those who would attack it • Defender of the Faith • You are called to know your Faith, the teachings of the Holy Church, and be willing and able to defend the Faith against those who would attack it Living the Faith Living the Faith

  24. Summary • Holy Spirit • Effect of Holy Spirit during Confirmation • Gifts of the Holy Spirit

  25. Backup Slides

  26. Small Group Exercise • Divide into small groups • Designate a Recorder and a Reporter • You have 10 minutes to answer the following questions • Who is the wisest person you know? • What are some qualities of a wise person? • Reporter will share results with the group

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