The Sacrament of Confirmation
What are the 3 Sacraments of Initiation?
1) Baptism
2) Holy Eucharist
3) Confirmation
What is all of our "General Vocation"
to be Saints/to get to Heaven
What does Christ mean?
Who founded the Catholic Church?
What does Easter replace in the Old Testament?
The Passover
A Patron Saint - to pray to and ask for their intercession and prayers. To learn from and look up to as a role model of the faith
A Sponsor - someone who is living and will help them grow in their faith. A sponsor must be a practicing Catholic who the confirmandee can also look up to and go to if they ever need help in their faith. A sponsor should be praying for their confirmandee as the prepare for the Sacrament and continue to pray for them always.
Why did God create you?
So that you could live in relationship with God and share in His infinite love.
What are the 3 titles of Christ
2) Prophet
3) King
What happens when we die?
BONUS: what happens at the "End of Time"?
1) Particular Judgement: at our death, we meet Jesus and are shown our conscience. We are sent to either Heaven, Purgatory, or Hell (depending on the state of our souls)
2) General Judgement: all of our bodies are resurrected and we are assembled together to receive our eternal judgement (Heaven or Hell)
1. Fasting
2. Almsgiving
3. Prayer
What will the Sacrament of Confirmation help you to do?
Defend your faith and live it faithfully. The Holy Spirit will descend upon you and strengthen you
What are 2 parallels of Mary and Eve?
What are 2 parallels of Jesus and Adam?
1) both were visited by angels, Mary trusted God and Eve did not, Eve brought sin into the world and Mary brought Jesus (salvation) into the world
2) both were tempted in the garden, both were born sinless, Adam ate from a tree which brought sin and death into the world and Jesus died on a tree (wooden cross) and gave us eternal life
Name 3 out of the 4 *main* reasons why Jesus came to Earth
1) to remove sin and reconcile us to God
2) to show us just how much God loves us
3) to show us how to live
4) to fill us with His divine life
What are the 4 marks of the Catholic Church?
1. One
2. holy
3. Apostolic
4. Catholic
Why do we fast?
- to make reparation for our sins
- to train ourselves to control our passions and appetites
- to free ourselves from things that we are addicted to/ dependent on/ pulling us away from God
The word "confirm" comes from the Latin word "confirmare" which means what?
To make strong
What was the first sin ever committed?
Distrust in God
(Adam and Eve did not believe that God was good/telling them the truth and they ate from the forbidden tree)
If the Eucharist is a sacrifice.. who is the priest and who is the victim?
Priest = Jesus Christ
Victim = Jesus Christ
What should we do before we receive a Sacrament? And why?
We should go to Confession so that we are able to receive all the sacramental graces that God will offer us
Who is the Old Testament King and Priest that prefigures Christ?
Melchizedek
When was the first Confirmation and what happened (who was there, when did it happen, etc)
Pentecost was the first Confirmation
- this was 50 days after Resurrection
- this included the 12 apostles (including St Matthias who replaced Judas) and the Blessed Virgin Mary
- the Holy Spirit descended upon the 13 like tongues of fire. They were filled with the Holy Spirit & began to speak in foreign languages. They went out and proclaimed the Gospel and 3000 people were baptized that day!
Name 2 out of the 4 effects of original sin
1. Concupiscence (temptation & difficulty to do good things)
2. Darkened intellect
3. Malice
4. Death (physical and eternal)
Where does Christ's soul go immediately after He dies?
to the "Limbo of the Fathers" - He announces to the souls of the righteous that He has conquered sin and death and will soon bring them to Heaven
Is Baptism necessary for Salvation? (Y/N)
Explain the meaning of the 4 different "types of Baptism:
1) Sacrament of Baptism
2) Baptism of Blood
3) Baptism of Explicit Desire
4) Baptism of Implicit Desire
1) Yes
2) Sacrament of Baptism
- Baptism of Blood (someone who dies for the faith)
- Baptism of Explicit Desire (someone who desired to be baptized but died before it occurred)
- Baptism of Implicit Desire (someone who resolved to live by the truth and didn't know about the faith through no fault of their own)
Why does St John the Baptist call Christ "the lamb of God"?
because Jesus is the sacrificial lamb of the New Testament
Just as the passover lamb was of the Old Testament