Confirmation

Baptism means to bring new life to christ. The step of baptism is to get a little bit of water and put it on a person's head or body is briefly placed under water. The symbolic step of baptism is to be baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Confirmation strengthens our new life with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is the sign of a person that you make sure yourself are in faith which you have been baptized and to live as a christian and it makes us to get strength from the Holy Spirit. The form of the confirmation is to be sealed with the gift of the holy spirit and the matter of the confirmation is anointing with sacred chrism and laying on of hands. The minister of the confirmation is Bishop, priest and the person who has got all sacraments of initiation.

Children can only get baptism but not confirmation because they cannot make their own decision about catholic when they are young. They will decide the confirmation when they have grown enough. Not only the kids, the adults who have been baptized will have the confirmation after they are ready. This is the main difference between baptism and confirmation.

We get seven gifts from the Holy Spirit after baptism. They are wisdom, understanding, counsel, courage, knowledge, reverence, wonder and ave. These gifts give us power to be stronger in faith and make the church better. Knowledge is the fifth gift of the Holy Spirit. It seems similar to understanding and wisdom. However, they are different because knowledge is the perfection of the faith. It gives us the ability to judge and lead us the right to way to God. With knowledge, we can understand and follow God’s way to live. We know more things and start to use our knowledge to judge each things in our daily life is true or false. Then it is right time for use to get ready to make a decision on confirmation. We are not able to understand everything like this when we are baptized but not have a confirmation.