Please answer all questions demonstrating you are thoughtful and mature. Parents/Mentors should review these with the candidates.
Type your 150-200 word response after each question and e-mail to [email protected] by April 12, 2015. Fr. Dave and Nathan will read the candidate's responses.
Include your name, Saint name/Confirmation name, date, your mentor's and sponsor's name.
Pick ONE of the following two questions to reflect on.
1. How has your parent or mentor group helped you follow Christ? How has your prayer life and relationship with Jesus grown as a result of this Confirmation process? How does Christian Service differ from volunteering? How are you answering this call to Christian Service and how will it become an ongoing part of your life after Confirmation? Share a passage of Scripture that is significant to you. Explain why it is powerful to you.
2. Pick 3 of the 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit you will receive at Confirmation and say how they can help you in your everyday life and as you get older. Share how they can help you achieve yours and God's dream for you. Here are brief definitions to help you.
In the Book of Isaiah 11:2-3, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit are described. In the passage the gifts are considered ones that the Messiah would have possessed. Through Jesus, we also receive the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Wisdom helps us recognize the importance of others and the importance of keeping God central in our lives.
Understanding is the ability to comprehend the meaning of God's message.
Knowledge is the ability to think about and explore God's revelation, and also to recognize there are mysteries of faith beyond us.
Counsel is the ability to see the best way to follow God's plan when we have choices that relate to him.
Fortitude is the courage to do what one knows is right.
Piety helps us pray to God in true devotion.
Fear of the Lord is the feeling of amazement before God, who is all-present, and whose friendship we do not want to lose.
Type your 150-200 word response after each question and e-mail to [email protected] by April 12, 2015. Fr. Dave and Nathan will read the candidate's responses.
Include your name, Saint name/Confirmation name, date, your mentor's and sponsor's name.
Pick ONE of the following two questions to reflect on.
1. How has your parent or mentor group helped you follow Christ? How has your prayer life and relationship with Jesus grown as a result of this Confirmation process? How does Christian Service differ from volunteering? How are you answering this call to Christian Service and how will it become an ongoing part of your life after Confirmation? Share a passage of Scripture that is significant to you. Explain why it is powerful to you.
2. Pick 3 of the 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit you will receive at Confirmation and say how they can help you in your everyday life and as you get older. Share how they can help you achieve yours and God's dream for you. Here are brief definitions to help you.
In the Book of Isaiah 11:2-3, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit are described. In the passage the gifts are considered ones that the Messiah would have possessed. Through Jesus, we also receive the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Wisdom helps us recognize the importance of others and the importance of keeping God central in our lives.
Understanding is the ability to comprehend the meaning of God's message.
Knowledge is the ability to think about and explore God's revelation, and also to recognize there are mysteries of faith beyond us.
Counsel is the ability to see the best way to follow God's plan when we have choices that relate to him.
Fortitude is the courage to do what one knows is right.
Piety helps us pray to God in true devotion.
Fear of the Lord is the feeling of amazement before God, who is all-present, and whose friendship we do not want to lose.