Confirmation Day

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Confirmation Day
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Prayer for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit

• May the Spirit of God rest upon me.
• May I be filled with the awesome and Holy Spirit
  of Jesus.

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• A Spirit of wisdom
• to see myself and others with the eyes of God.
• A Spirit of understanding
• to see the heart of people and things.
• A Spirit of counsel
• to listen to the goodness within me and around me

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• A Spirit of courage
• to confront the dark and frightening things
  within me and around me.
• A Spirit of knowledge
• to know what is truly valuable in life.

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• A Spirit of holiness
• to live a humble and prayerful life.
• A Spirit of reverence
• to walk,, talk, and act in a way that is sacred
  and respectful.
• We ask this through Christ, Our Lord, Amen

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Called by name
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Favourite band, CD or song
Describe your partner. (Student, footballer,
funny,etc)
Place of birth. No. of houses they have lived
in. Community where they live now.
Name/Nickname
Rating 1-5 (5 is highest) How strong is your
faith?
Name of people and pets they live with.
Fictional character
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Called by name

• Read through the following passages, what name
  does God call us by?
• Psalm 13914
• Genesis 127
• 2 Corinthians 618
• 1 Corinthians 1227
• 2 Corinthians 616
• Isaiah 441

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Psalm 13914

• I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
  made. Wonderful are your works that I know very
  well.

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Psalm 13914

• I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
  made. Wonderful are your works that I know very
  well.

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Genesis 127

• So God created humankind in his image, in the
  image of God he created them male and female he
  created them.

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Genesis 127

• So God created humankind in his image, in the
  image of God he created them male and female he
  created them.

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2 Corinthians 618

• I will be your father, and you shall be my sons
  and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

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2 Corinthians 618

• I will be your father, and you shall be my sons
  and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

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1 Corinthians 1227

• Now you are the body of Christ and individually
  members of it.

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1 Corinthians 1227

• Now you are the body of Christ and individually
  members of it.

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2 Corinthians 616

• For we are the temple of the living God as God
  said, "I will live in them and walk among them,
  and I will be their God, and they shall be my
  people.

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2 Corinthians 616

• For we are the temple of the living God as God
  said, "I will live in them and walk among them,
  and I will be their God, and they shall be my
  people.

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Isaiah 441

• But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I
  have chosen!

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Isaiah 441

• But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I
  have chosen!

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Image of God
Body of Christ
Sons and daughters of God
Wonderfully made
Chosen
The Temple of the Living God
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Taken from Isaiah 431-5

• Do not fear, for I have redeemed you I have
  called you by name, you are mine.
• When you pass through the waters, I will be with
  you and through the rivers, they shall not
  overwhelm you when you walk through fire you
  shall not be burned, and the flame shall not
  consume you.
• For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of
  Israel, your Saviour. Because you are precious in
  my sight, and honoured, and I love you.
• Do not fear, for I am with you.

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Confirmation

• Pope John Paul II addresses Young People.
• Coventry 1982

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Pope John Paul II

• Christs gift of the Holy Spirit is going to be
  poured out upon you in a particular way. You will
  hear the words of the Church spoken over you,
  calling upon the Holy Spirit to confirm your
  faith, to seal you in his love, to strengthen you
  for his service.

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• You will then take your place among fellow
  Christians throughout the world, full citizens
  now of the People of God. You will witness to the
  truth of the Gospel in the name of Jesus Christ.
  You will live your lives in such a way as to make
  holy all human life. Together with all the
  confirmed, you will become living stones in the
  cathedral of peace. Indeed you are called by God
  to be instruments of his peace.

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• My dear young people, the world of today needs
  you, for it needs men and women who are filled
  with the Holy Spirit. It needs your courage and
  hopefulness, your faith and your perseverance.
  The world of tomorrow will be built by you.

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• My Dear Child,
• I encourage you to put out into the deep.
• You have to make important decisions for your
  future.
• I see you happy as you should be, but also
  worried, wanting to give real meaning to your
  life.
• Trust Jesus!
• Be open to his teaching and fix your eyes on his
  face.
• Allow him to direct your search , your hopes,
• And all the desires of your heart.
• Love from
• God

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• Use the following as a guide
• What career will you be involved in?
• Will you be married?
• Will you have children?
• Where will you be living? (i.e. in Britain or
  abroad?)
• Will you still have the same friends?
• What values will be important to you?
• How will society have changed?
• How will your place of worship have changed?

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FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND

• One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach
  with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed
  across the sky. In each scene I noticed
  footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two
  sets of footprints, other times there was one
  only. This bothered me because I noticed that
  during the low periods of my life, when I was
  suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could
  see only one set of footprints, 

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• so I said to the Lord, You promised me
  Lord, that if I followed you, you would walk with
  me always. But I have noticed that during the
  most trying periods of my life there has only
  been one set of footprints in the sand. Why,
  when I needed you most, have you not been there
  for me?

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• The Lord replied, The years when you have seen
  only one set of footprints, my child, is when I
  carried you.
• Mary Stevenson

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My timeline

• On a sheet of paper mark out a timeline for your
  life so far.
• What are the key events that have happened in
  your life?
• Mark on any occasions when God has felt
  particularly close.

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• Imagine yourself in 20 years time.
• Draw a timeline to show the important events.

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Some Definite Service after John Henry Newman

• God has created me to do some definite service
• God has committed some work to me
• Which is not committed to another.
• I have my mission. I may never know it in this
  life, But I shall be told it in the next.
• I have a part in this great work
• I am a link in the chain,
• A bond of connection between persons.
• God has not created me for naught.
• I shall do good, I shall do Gods work
• I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth
  in my own place,
• while not intending it, if I do but keep Gods
  commandments
• and serve the Lord in my calling.
• Therefore I will trust my Lord.
• Whatever, wherever I am,
• can never be thrown away.
• I ask not to see . I ask not to know . I ask
  simply to be used.

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Nelson Mandela 1994, Inaugural Speech

• "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful, beyond
  measure.
• It is our light, not our darkness, that most
  frightens us.
• We ask ourselves "Who am I to be brilliant,
  gorgeous, talented and fabulous"?
• Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child
  of God, your playing small doesn't serve the
  world.
• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so
  that other people won't feel insecure around you.
  
• We were born to make manifest the glory of God
  that is within us.  
• It is not just some of us, it's in everyone.
• As we let our own light shine, then we
  unconsciously give other people permission to do
  the same.
• As we are liberated from our own fear, our
  presence automatically liberates others."

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• You are salt for the earth.
• But if salt loses its taste, what can make it
  salty again? It is good for nothing, and can only
  be thrown out to be trampled under peoples feet.
  
• You are light for the world. A city built on a
  hill top cannot be hidden. No-one lights a lamp
  to put it under a tub they put it on the
  lamp-stand where it shines for everyone in the
  house. In the same way your light must shine in
  peoples sight, so that, seeing your good works,
  they may give praise to your Father in heaven.

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• Father,
• pour out your Spirit upon our diocese
• and grant us a new vision of your glory
• a new experience of your power
• a new faithfulness to your Word
• a new consecration to your service
• so that your love may grow among us
• and your kingdom come
• through Christ our Lord,
• Amen.