Research Paper On Confirmation

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton roll in the Catholic Church was a sister. She became a sister after her husband died. When she was a sister she created Sisters of Charity. Sisters of Charity is for girls to help serve the poor. She created the Sisters of Charity in 1858 in Maryland. She also created an all girls Catholic school. She created the first American Catholic school, St. Joseph Academy. ¨Afterward a group of buildings, embracing a residence for the Sisters, a novitiate, a boarding-school for young girls, a school for poor children, and an orphan asylum, was erected (http://www.elizabethannseton.org ).¨ She created many things that helped people. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton did not have any miracles. Although she did many great things, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was the patron saint of dead children and parents, people who work on the ocean, and widows. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was crucial in the Catholic Church because of her decision to go into the church and what she contributed and how she helped the poor and how she relates to life

Germaine never wanted to miss Mass even though she was in charge of the flock. When the bell rang for Mass at the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, she would pray and ask her guardian angel to look after the sheep while she was at Mass. The sheep never got hurt while she was at Mass even though there were wolves around. Throughout the Church, St. Germaine learned all about the love of God. One of the most important things she learned was that sufferings bring grace. All of the sufferings we must go through in life have meaning to God because of his great love for us. Perhaps it’s because everyone else was so mean to her that St. Germaine was able to see how very much God loves her and it was through the Church that

Confirmation in the Catholic Church Confirmation is a Catholic sacrament of mature Christian commitment and a deepening of baptismal gifts. Like Baptism and Eucharist, it is a Sacrament of Initiation for Catholics and a Sacrament of faith in God's fidelity to us Confirmation is the moment when two things are confirmed. The candidate confirms his/her faith in Christ and takes full responsibility for that faith and for membership of the community of faith, which we call the "church". God, through the Bishop, confirms God's claim on the candidate's life.

When picking my Confirmation Saint, I wanted someone who inspired me, who I was interested in, and who I could strive relate to. A Saint who perfectly fit this description for me was St. Helen.

To most, it is very simple to look at impactful Christians or missionaries and attempt to look like them, talk like them and act like them. The nationwide-famous author, speaker, teacher Elizabeth Elliot writes in her devotional book, A Lamp Unto My Feet concerning the topic of “Pedestals”. She writes, “A student asked me whether I thought it was a “problem” that we tend to place missionaries on pedestals. My answer was that indeed we do, but servants of the Lord ought to be models of the truth they proclaim. Pail was bold enough to say, “Be ye followers of me” (1 Cor. 4:16, KJV). At the same time let us always remember that the “excellency of the power” (2 Cor. 4:7,KJV) is never ours but God’s. It is foolish to imagine that the missionary, or whoever the hero is, is sinless. God uses sinners—- there is no one else to use. Pedestals are statues. Usually statues commemorate people who have done something admirable. Is the deed worth imitating? Does it draw me out of myself, set my sights higher? Let me remember the Source of all strength…and, cheered by the image of a human being in whom that strength was shown, follow His example.” As in this book, Mother Teresa is an influential servant, however I think that people then and even now are placing her on a pedestal. Malcolm Muggerridge said it himself, “she is a light which could never be extinguished.” Although she might have performed

I believe in the beauty of confidence. Confidence is truly a defining factor in self-recognized beauty. I believe that confidence is one of the most important traits that an individual can possess. To perceive confidence is not solely to feel pride in oneself, but to recognize the strength that lies in the presence of a single individual. To feel the power of emotions that can exist, the wonder of thoughts that are able to ring inside a free mind too. To feel strength in a crowded room is to be mighty. To sit down beside champions of the same sport and to not feel an urge to compare oneself to others in any manner but for inspiration. Letting only my eyes wander to the appearance and the interviews of my competition, but for the sole purpose of improving myself. To settle for less than I already am because of someone else is a crime I have the power to commit, as well to prevent. People are so much fiercer and more powerful than their minds will ever lead them to believe. To feel dignity blossom inside a mind and soul is to allow a heart the ease of knowing that it is at rest inside a chest that it

Jean returned refreshed with the Holy Spirit. She began to sweep the streets, feeding the hungry, consoling the worried, and strengthened the weak through prayer and worship. Jean was

Many people today believe that true sucess is your financial or social status. However, I believe that true sucess is living out your purpose and doing everything out of your heart. I always feel the need to give and encourage others. I feel as though I am changing the world around me one person at a time. My random act of kindness enables me to serve my community and to spread love and common courtesy to everyone. This essentially is my short and long-term goal.

St. Catherine of Siena was canonized in 1461 by Pope Pius II. She died on April 29, 1380 when she was just 33 years old. She impacted the church in so many ways. She helped the poor, sick, and non-believers. She also helped people realize that the church is a great thing and help people converge to the church.

The saint I have chosen for Confirmation is Saint Catherine of Siena. Her feast day is April 29th. She is a patron saint of Italy, bodily ills, miscarriages, people judged for their piety, sexual temptation, sick people, nurses, and fire prevention. Saint Catherine of Siena even helped the poor and assisted the United States becoming peaceful. The reason I have chosen her is because when I’m older, I want to help people by becoming a nurse or something of that field, just like her.

For my confirmation saint project, I have picked, St. Rita of Cascia. St. Rita has a background of change as she was always been undecided on whether to believe in god or not. When it came to being religious and in her beliefs she was always turning on and of her faith. St. Rita was forced to marriage at an early age and was unhappy for 20 years after her marriage ended her two sons died. She was left alone with got and that's when her faith began to grow. St. Rita asked to enter the religious life and was denied.although after a couple times of trying she was finally accepted and she was asked to take care and plant a dead grapevine. With time as her faith grew the vine also grew. To this date her vine and grapes are still growing, people

She was born into a poor but holy family and was a servant from the age 12 to a rich family who lived in Lucca, Italy. She found time everyday to attend mass and recite her prayers. Then the people who gave her jobs were upset of the gifts of food she gave to the poor, then after a while they were won over by her kindness and became friends with her. Her employers then gave her free rein over her schedule as being a servant so she used that time to visit those who were sick and in prison.

Saint Francis was one of the most selfless people to live. Francis gave up his rich and lavish life style to live as Jesus Christ did. There are many qualities that Saint Francis possessed that I can connect to a few people I know, but the few that I am going to be relating to my life would be his generosity, how prayerful he was and his humbleness. I believe that two of my close friends possess qualities that make them like Francis.

Saints are always different from everyday people, thus no one understands them in their lives, only a lot of years after their death. Joan of Arc was a saint like this as well, she was too far ahead of her times and was killed by her fellow men, because they didn’t know what else to do. She was canonized in 1920, after 489 years of her death. In my opinion, she was not only a saint, but meant to be an angel and showed a good example to all of us, how to behave ourselves in the name of honour, honesty, and glory.

The Holy Spirit plays a very vital role in the lives of each and every believer; He can strengthen us with a strength that we cannot even begin to muster up in ourselves. He can bring us joy that we cannot even begin to find in the things of this world. He can bring peace to our lives more than anything that we can ever find on this earth. “The Holy Spirit which is primarily an energizing process, is also a revealing, refining, consuming, illuminating process, and one by which we are made to glow with love to God, and love to man, and love to souls.”