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What is Confirmation? (2.0)
Welcome back! Season 4 will be a new recording of our topic from Season 2-- Confirmation-- with a new member of our team and a fresh take on three important questions:
Join us & our youth this season as we prepare for Confirmation in The Episcopal Church!
What is confirmation? It is a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritually grace. The outward sign is the Bishop laying their hands on the confirmand, and the inward and spiritual grace is the Holy Spirit joining with you as you make a mature profession of your faith.
After a season of learning, we ask young people to make their own decision if they want to be confirmed!
What does it look like to get ready for Confirmation? Nowadays, we take confirmation classes, go on retreats, and listen to podcasts! It continues with a religious ceremony of initiation; where we confirm the person’s choice to be a follower of Christ. This happens in the context of the Baptismal liturgy; a Bishop lays hands, calling the Holy Spirit down upon the person and the confirmand makes their own vows to be a Christian. We teach (catechize) to get people ready to make these vows in a mature way, as they are making a serious commitment! Other things we do to prepare for confirmation is to look at our past and present lives and how we may have strayed away from God and each other, or sinned. Fortunately, this is not where the story ends; we are assisted and led by God’s Grace! Grace is God coming to us and meeting us where we are and loving us; rather than us having to pull ourselves up on our own to get to God.
This episode we also covered the history of confirmation. The first moment that it appears is when the Holy Spirit descends upon those who were already Baptized (Acts 8:15-17). This is the first moment we see where we can discern something like “confirmation.” For a long time, these two sacraments were inseparable; but as the church grew, Bishops delegated Baptism to priests, and would confirm Christians only once in a while at each church when they visited. That way, people did not have to wait for an apostle or bishop to visit them. We also talk about emergency Baptism (!!), Baptism in general, and whether or not Confirmation still matters! We find that at St. John’s it does. People are joining by Confirmation and reaffirming their faith every year.
To learn about that faith and to get ready to be confirmed, we’ll have six more episodes and ask three Big questions. Make sure you are listening to the season 4 versions as they are published this month!
That’s confirmation— we are so glad you are listening and we hope asking these questions and having these conversations helps you in your faith journey— whether you’re in confirmation, listening along as a member, or if you’ve found us online and are learning more about us. We’re glad you’re here. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or to schedule a pastoral visit or conversation!
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Welcome back! Season 4 will be a new recording of our topic from Season 2-- Confirmation-- with a new member of our team and a fresh take on three important questions:
Join us & our youth this season as we prepare for Confirmation in The Episcopal Church!
What is confirmation? It is a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritually grace. The outward sign is the Bishop laying their hands on the confirmand, and the inward and spiritual grace is the Holy Spirit joining with you as you make a mature profession of your faith.
After a season of learning, we ask young people to make their own decision if they want to be confirmed!
What does it look like to get ready for Confirmation? Nowadays, we take confirmation classes, go on retreats, and listen to podcasts! It continues with a religious ceremony of initiation; where we confirm the person’s choice to be a follower of Christ. This happens in the context of the Baptismal liturgy; a Bishop lays hands, calling the Holy Spirit down upon the person and the confirmand makes their own vows to be a Christian. We teach (catechize) to get people ready to make these vows in a mature way, as they are making a serious commitment! Other things we do to prepare for confirmation is to look at our past and present lives and how we may have strayed away from God and each other, or sinned. Fortunately, this is not where the story ends; we are assisted and led by God’s Grace! Grace is God coming to us and meeting us where we are and loving us; rather than us having to pull ourselves up on our own to get to God.
This episode we also covered the history of confirmation. The first moment that it appears is when the Holy Spirit descends upon those who were already Baptized (Acts 8:15-17). This is the first moment we see where we can discern something like “confirmation.” For a long time, these two sacraments were inseparable; but as the church grew, Bishops delegated Baptism to priests, and would confirm Christians only once in a while at each church when they visited. That way, people did not have to wait for an apostle or bishop to visit them. We also talk about emergency Baptism (!!), Baptism in general, and whether or not Confirmation still matters! We find that at St. John’s it does. People are joining by Confirmation and reaffirming their faith every year.
To learn about that faith and to get ready to be confirmed, we’ll have six more episodes and ask three Big questions. Make sure you are listening to the season 4 versions as they are published this month!
That’s confirmation— we are so glad you are listening and we hope asking these questions and having these conversations helps you in your faith journey— whether you’re in confirmation, listening along as a member, or if you’ve found us online and are learning more about us. We’re glad you’re here. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or to schedule a pastoral visit or conversation!