Confirmation: A Completion & A Commencement
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Today, we read CCC, 1285 - 1321 and discuss the sacrament of Confirmation. Sadly, this sacrament is often treated as the end of the road in one's sacramental life or as a time to push the pause button on one's faith until marriage in a Catholic Church. The Catechism teaches that it is a sacrament of completion in that it seals what was begun at baptism. But it is also a sacrament of commencement, or a new beginning, in the life of a Christian as he or she sets out more boldly, confirmed in his or her walk with Christ.
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