Confirmation Flashcards
What is laying on of hands?
A gesture that is a main rite and origin of the sacrament of Confirmation. Transfer of power.
Ex) Acts 19: 1-6 Paul laid hands on a new group of disciples after they had been baptized and they received the Holy Spirit
What is Chrismation?
The name in the Eastern Rites for the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Comes from the chrism used as a part of the sacrament.
What is Age of Discretion?
"Age of reason" The age (typically at the end of the 7th year) at which a person becomes capable of moral reasoning
What is a Confirmand?
A candidate for Confirmation
What is Chrism Mass?
Holy Thursday n The mass where the sacred chrisms (oils) used for the sacraments are consecrated. 1) Chrism 2) Oil of Catechumens 3) Oil of the Sick
What is balsam?
Tree sap that is very sweet smelling
Used in chrism to make it hard to get rid of the smell; leaves its mark on you. (Combined with olive oil)
Chrismation
What are the fruits of the spirit?
Perfect ions that result from living in union with the Holy Spirit.
Not GRANTED like the gifts of the Holy Spirit; they spring from us and what we do.
What is the seal?
Seal of the Holy Spirit
Given to us at Confirmation
“Marks” us, permanent
Makes it so that the Holy Spirit is always with us and we can not be reconfirmed.
Explain Luke 4 and Jesus’s reading of Isaiah.
Jesus reads in the synagogue at Nazareth.
“the Holy Spirit is upon me” (Jesus has been anointed)
Reveals he is the messiah, and he has come, so:
-he brings liberty to captives
-good news to the poor
-sight to the blind
-let the oppressed go free
What are some examples of the Holy Spirit in scripture?
Ezekiel 36: Jesus says he will remove the heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh
He will out his spirit (holy spirit) within
Jesus promises the spirit
What are some examples of Jesus promising the spirit?
Luke 12: when authority threatens you, do not worry, the Holy Spirit will teach you
Jesus and Nicodemus:
“You must be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God”
Nicodemus asks what he means
“The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes, so it is with everyone who is born of the spirit”
Last Supper:
Jesus promises to send the spirit
Jesus calls it “another advocate” WHO SPEAKS ON YOUR BEHALF
Paraclete: advocate, helper, comforter, consoler
Explain what happened at Pentecost
Acts 2:
1) “noise like a strong, driving wind..”
2) Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire which parted and came to rest on each of them (the Apostles)
3) “And they were filled with the Holy Spirit”
4) SPEAKING IN TONGUES
“birthday of the church”
What is the order of the Sacraments of Initiation and why does it vary?
Our Church: Baptism, Eucharist (First Communion), Confirmation
Eastern Rite: Baptism and Confirmation are one celebration
Others in our Church are starting to change the order back to Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, because it restored the old order of the sacraments.
How is Confirmation a “double sacrament”?
Confirmation and Baptism used to be the same celebration (still is in the Eastern rite)
This changed because of issues with the Bishops
Confirmation completes baptism; bishop does second anointing
According to Aquinas, how did Jesus institute Confirmation?
Did not bestow; he PROMISED it
Fullness of Holy Ghost is bestowed upon us in Confirmation
Holy Ghost is not to be given before Christ’s resurrection/ascension
John 16:7 “But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.”
Three opinions (all wrong):
- not instituted by Christ; nor by the apostles, but by one of the councils
- Apostles instituted it
- only Christ can institute a new sacrament
