Dear, Your Excellency, I, {****}, a member of [*PARISH NAME AND LOCATION*], ask you, Bishop Grahmann, to confirm me as a member of the Roman Catholic Church. I would like to receive the sacrament because I want to become an active member and participant in the Catholic Church. After I have received it, I will be recognized as a full member of the Catholic Community, enabling me to be involved in the parish with more depth. As a confirmed individual, I will be better able to participate in many events within my church community. Receiving Confirmation will also allow me to be closer to God. My preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation has been incredible. There were times when it seemed that I had better things to do instead of going to the Youth Ministry. But after going, I never regretted it. Every time I was there, I felt at home. The thing that was in my mind most of the time was just how mortal human beings are. It was a wonderful feeling to know God loved me and that He’d allowed me to be there yet another time. I’ve learned to appreciate everything God gives us. Someti...
First of all, I just want to say that I am so grateful to be a disciple; I am grateful that my wife and I are a part of Gods great kingdom now. It’s been two years since my wife and I got baptized, and since then, God has done so many great things in our lives.
Duggan, STD, Rev. Robert D. Confirmation Filled with the Holy Spirit, they proclaimed the Lord Jesus. Allen, Texas: ColorDynamics, 2006. 48-49. Print.
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Overall I didn’t really have the great of an experience and that was the reason why I went back to my family’s house, and was able to continue my education at a Christian school; such as Azusa pacific University which I love. I love the fact that I am also learning more about God, and having a wonderful people that are getting to know more about God as well. My overall experience made me more grateful to be where I am today and to be able to focus more on my life being around my family.
Gregory’s Episcopal Church. She had said that she became overwhelmed by the realization of God and that He became very real to her. Miles also talks about how unbalanced and emotional she was, and didn’t know how to handle herself, but continually came back for more (Miles, 58-59). I love hearing Sara talk about taking communion for the first time because it seems so beautiful, how Jesus was able to move through her and come to life inside of her. There have been a couple of times when I would go on retreats and mission trips and take communion in a more meaningful way because of the people I had become close to and had gotten to know on those trips would be with me. When I am take communion at the First United Methodist Church on a regular Sunday though, it can almost become just a regular thing you do at church without really remembering its sacredness. I still feel it is important, but because I’ve been doing it all my life and I think it is easy to forget all the things tied to it. Overall I feel as though this book has made me explore different ways of being a part of a community and enabled me to see that God works through all of us whether we believe it or not. It’s also extremely refreshing to see Sara’s excitement for her newfound faith and how she deals with the problems thrown at her. In Sara’s case I think God made the impossible possible. This story is an
I have never felt more welcome and loved in my entire life, the energy in that room from all these people was incredible.This was the day I began my transition into adulthood, I made a commitment to this community, to God. I turned my life around, I started working harder in school, I matured, and had a positive outlook on my situation. Because of young life I learned
It is with deep sadness and regret that we, the Johnson Core Team, must write this letter regarding the actions during the past leadership weekend. Without a doubt, our team was greatly affected by it, and we still feel its effects now, even as we have returned home from camp. We realize that poor decisions were made by us as a Core Team – who posed as leaders of leaders – and the negative implications that it has made for us, our teachers, and our administration. It is a decision that we admit to being a risk to not only the face of Monsignor Percy Johnson’s leadership, but the face of Catholic Student Leadership within the TCDSB. We acknowledge that our decision and actions do not reflect
In the rite of baptism, the liturgy joyfully proclaims, "you are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus." Today, lesbian and gay Catholics are reminding the Church that they, too, have been baptized. Many are beginning to reclaim their membership in the body of Christ and the Church. As baptized persons, lesbian and gay Catholics share the rights of all the baptized: "to receive the sacraments, to be nourished with the Word of God and to be sustained by the other spiritual helps of the Church" (Catechism)
Due to God's leadership, my child won a wonderful and even wonderful healthier Big blessing, in retrospect, God meant my child to be baptized. For the last time, because of disagreements with his spouse, so that her baptism was delayed for a time, It seems necessary to be baptized. Therefore, when she was baptized, the Holy Spirit changed the innermost and outer aspects of her whole person. Thus, a new born new life appeared in the pottery of God and was fortunate enough to have experienced God's mighty Led, this is the way of eternal life requires
It is one of the privileges of an ordained elder who, by God’s grace, has been formally prepared and found acceptable by the Church to administer the two sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion. These two sacraments are “outward signs, words, or actions, ordained of God, and appointed for this end, to be the ordinary channels whereby (the Triune God) might convey to (humans), preventing, justifying, or sanctifying grace.” With Baptism as the initiating sacrament welcoming an individual into the Body of Christ, Holy Communion continues to sustain the Body. These outward signs of an inward grace help us to live out our relationship with God, follow Christ and live in covenant with the Body of Christ for the benefit of the world. “John Wesley stressed that baptism is only a step in the salvation process and must be followed by justifying faith and personal commitment to Christ when one reaches an age of accountability. He referred to Holy Communion as ‘a converting ordinance’.”
This is what confirmation gives that is not given in baptism: the perfection of the Christian life” (Erlenbush 2011). Confirmation, therefore, is a necessary sacrament because it is symbolic as a Catholic’s striving towards the path of perfection and salvation. Those who choose to be confirmed show that they genuinely want to feel the completeness of God’s graces and are willing to complete the necessary steps to becoming closer with
Christians must come to understand that in order to serve God and His people well, we need to know and live better my Catholic Faith. We must study and read about the Church’s teachings and traditions to appreciate them better, but we must also allow the Holy Spirit to guide us in our Christian lives. He will do it! God’s Spirit desires to form a close relationship with each and every one of us. Indeed, He is the Great Unknown Companion within us that we already received in our baptism to form us perfectly into God’s image and likeness. However, if in Baptism we receive the Spirit to bear Christ 's image, it 's equally true that in Confirmation we are sent by God in that same Spirit to bear true witness to Christ. With the Holy Spirit we are sent to share with others the wonders that God has done, and to share that God is alive and that God is love. Therefore, open your heart to the Holy Spirit’s presence and action in your life; always invite Him with desire, faith, and fervor to fill you completely; and pray to Him constantly for wisdom, strength, guidance, and courage. God will do it – yes, He will! God bless you
The sacrament of Baptism is a rite of passage undertaken by believers in celebrating, symbolising and making present the central beliefs of the religious tradition of Christianity. It is an experiential religious act involving the transformation of the individual.
...rd was trying to tell me this. It was during this time I heard the word ‘seek first the kingdom’. As I heard this word, I cried out to God for the first time in my life to remember me. It was here I made a vow to the Lord in the faith that I would find remembrance. As I made this vow and fulfilled it, the Lord opened doors that I can truly say would not have been opened if I didn’t respond to the word to ‘seek first the kingdom’. Out of this time, the Lord blessed me financially, led me to buy a home and healed my anxious heart. It was here that I began to find testimony before God through offering. This is something I am still finding to this day.
To receive the Sacrament one must be a baptized male who acts as a role model to others, have an interior and exterior call, Have knowledge of the Sacrament, be the proper age, have a lifelong commitment to living without a wife, and study theology.