Confirmation: Rite for Life

This DVD, available at www.videoswithvalues.org, tells the complete history of the sacrament beginning with Pentecost and how the celebration began and has evolved in the Eastern and Roman Churches over the centuries. All the essential elements of the ceremony including the laying of hands and anointing are shown and explained in detail.

Following the New Catechism, footage includes a Confirmation ceremony featuring Bishop Wilton Gregory, and a bi-lingual ceremony (English and Spanish) with Archbishop Raymond Burke.

The role of sponsors is explained, making this program great for meetings. You'll also hear young people talk about what Confirmation means to them along with expert commentary by noted author, Fr. Paul Turner.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Confirmation
• Sacraments
• RCIA
• Catchesis
• faith
• spirituality
• Catholic
• Roman
• Initiation

[Sheila6325]

My Confirmation gave me the meaning of my being a soldier of Christ. A fulfilled Christian, a completed Christian. Even though I was complete at Baptism.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit were given to me, and I was ready to be a fulfilled Christian, with all the gifts God had given me, to be a committed Christian.

Just my understanding, of my Confirmation.

[LiturgicalChants]

Although the post-Vatican II Roman Church continually refers to confirmation as a sacrament of initiation, it is not always celebrated that way. When confirmation is deferred from baptism to anywhere from seven to eighteen years, it is difficult to appreciate its status as an initiation rite as is so patently the case in the East. Although the Roman church calls confirmation an initiation rite in every situation, it does not express that reality very well.

[LiturgicalChants]

Strangely, a confluence of theological thought on confirmation has materialized between Roman Catholicism and mainstream Protestantism. Although the impetus to celebrate confirmation as a rite of commitment for adolescents is fairly new to Catholic thought, it prevailed among theologians of the Reformation. Now the Protestant theology and the Catholic practice of confirmation have become similar. The Eastern rites have preserved a meaning of chrismation for which the West longs.