What is the sacrament of comfirmation about?

Answer 1

Catholic AnswerThe Sacrament of Confirmation is about Our Blessed Lord sealing you with the Holy Spirit in order to enable you to have a mature faith and live as a Christian. Please note that it gives you the graces and the ability to do this, it doesn't do it automatically, you still have to do the work, you must cooperate with the graces. If you do not cooperate with them, they will wither away. It is like a seed of the Holy Spirit planted within you that, if properly nourished and fed WILL make you into a great saint, as it has hundreds of times already. If ignored and acted against, it will be as if you were never confirmed at all.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

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It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost.

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From this fact, Confirmation brings and increase and deepening of baptismal grace:

- it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, "ABBA! Father!; (Rom 8:15)

- it unites us more firmly to Christ;

- it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us;

- it renders our bond with the church more perfect; (Cf. Lumen Gentium 11)

- 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: (Cf. Council of Florence (1439): Denzinger-Schometzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum {1965} 1319; Lumen Gentium 11; 12)

Recall then that you received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of right judgment and courage, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear in God's presence. Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the spirit, in your hearts. (St. Ambrose, De myst. 7, 42: J.P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina (Paris: 1841-1855) 16, 402-403)

Answer 2

The sacrament of confirmation is "confirming" that you are a Christian and want to continue a religious path. Since your parents chose to get you baptized, you had no choice in the matter. Now that you are older you can make your own decisions and choose whether or not you want to be a Christian.